Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is a 2001 real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by LucasArts. Galactic Battlegrounds utilizes the Genie engine, known for its use in the Age of Empires series, also developed by Ensemble, from which the game borrows many elements. The game uses a top down perspective from which the player controls the units of their chosen civilization to gather resources and wage war. It features six civilizations from the Star Wars films, the Galactic Empire, the Gungans, the Rebel Alliance, the Royal Naboo, the Trade Federation, and the Wookiees.

The story of Galactic Battlegrounds is portrayed through six campaigns, following every civilization except for the Royal Naboo. Levels span events set 3000 years before the films, events prior to and during the Invasion of Naboo, portrayed in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, and the Galactic Civil War as portrayed in the original trilogy films. The campaigns emphasize key individuals shaping galactic history through military command and leadership. An expansion pack, Clone Campaigns was released in 2002, featuring elements from Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. Later that year, both Galactic Battlegrounds and Clone Campaigns were released in a box set: Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga.

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