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ASIN

B000092P4A

Release date

June 25, 2003

Customer Reviews

3.3 68 ratings

3.3 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#58,842 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1,743 in PC-compatible Games

Package Dimensions

13.1 x 10.4 x 2.5 inches; 3.35 Pounds

Type of item

CD-ROM

Rated

Teen

Item model number

023272318192

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Yes

Item Weight

3.34 pounds

Manufacturer

LucasArts Entertainment

Date First Available

April 1, 2003

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It is a time of galactic civil war. The Empire is at the height of its terrible power. However, there is still hope for the Rebellion. A great hero must rise to the challenge, and this time its not a farm boy from Tatooine. Its you.

Star Wars Galaxies makes it possible for you to literally live within the Star Wars universe. Choose your identity from eight customized playable species, determining everything from height to facial features. Then join thousands of other adventurers as you explore more than 10 persistent Star Wars worlds. Battle stormtroopers, hang out in the Mos Eisley cantina, and interact with famous characters like Han Solo. You define your own role within the galactic community. Whether you become a smuggler or trader, marksman or bounty hunter, Star Wars Galaxies is your destiny.

Collector's edition includes:

The Game. Packaged in a leather box with gold title treatment. The manual inside will feature a special cover with the signatures of key-people from the Galaxies development team.
Exclusive in-game wearable: The wearable will be three types of "eyewear." Note that we do not currently have any other eyewear in the game, and these wearables cannot be traded, so they're exclusive to those who have the Collector's Edition. These will help identify the in-game character as being one of the first in the game.
Art concept book. This will feature drawings, computer models, renders, character information, etc. Revel in the art and history behind this massively multiplayer game
Collectable figurine of the all-powerful Zabrak female species immortalized in pewter.
Sew on patch, featuring the logo of the first exciting chapter of Star Wars Galaxies. The Collector's Edition will be created as a one-time, limited run sku, and once they're gone, they're gone forever.

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D. Ford

From AC and AC2 To SWG

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2003

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I was a long time player of Asherson's Call and Asheron's Call 2, I decided to give Star Wars a try.. heck I am a fan.
I have to admit the game is far better then I expected. A player can be anything they want, if you like dancing in the local cantina or healing wounds in the Medical Center or even exchanging Blaster fire with some Storm Troppers this game is for you. The UI is fantastic, the sounds and graphics are very immpressive and offer a true sense of immersion into the Star Wars Genere.
Being a Seasoned MMORPG there are a few things buyers should expect. You'll need to understand that things change, and what is the funniest thing today may get old tommorrow, SoE and Lucas Arts do a great job keeping the game updated on a monthly basis. If your a First Time MMORPG player or a seasoned player or just a Star Wars fan, I am sure you can find something to do and have fun with here.
I give it 5 Stars, great game!

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William Hudson

Did not include Star Wars galaxies. Cannot believe the ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2015

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Did not include Star Wars galaxies. Cannot believe the Scam. Did not include lapel pin or figure either. Filing formal complaint.

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Naz

SOE Has Re-Written the Game, Worst Star Wars game now!

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2005

This game used to be cool, and one of the Best MMO's out there.

However, in the past few months, Sony Online Entertainment has completely scraped the original game coding and rewritten it from scratch.

There used to be 30+ professions to play, and players used to be able to mix them and be hybrids.

Now there are only 9 professions, and players are stuck in their jobs... You wanna be a Smuggler, great your a smuggler, only there is no smuggling existent in the game... and you can't play your favorite Stars Wars musical instrument anymore in the Cantina's... as a side job.

The Combat System in the game has been overhauled at least twice in the last few months, the original system completely scraped and re-coded from scratch.

All these changes to the game are forced upon the players by SOE, and the players have to download them from SOE's servers to make sure their installed version is up to date with SOE's version.

Some of the downloads take hours, some even days for Dial Up users. I have to burn all the downloaded updates into a CD or DVD for a friend of mine, and mail them to her because she gets them quicker that way.. because her Dial Up takes 36+ hours to download the biggest updates, and she can only let the download run for a few hours a day.

The game, at the present time... November 21st, 2005... the Game sucks. SOE keeps promising changes to make things better, but they're either not coming fast enough for the players... or they just never come out with the cxhange at all... Smuggler's have been waiting 2 years now for the "promised" ability to be able to Smuggle in the game... Players are cancelling their accounts left and right.

SOE, on the day of their latest, and largest recode of the game... two weeks ago, Fired their Community Correspondent (Tiggs, a very popular person with the players) who is their voice between us the Players.. and them... because they didn't like what she was telling them what we were saying about the changes.

The game is supposed to be set in the timeperiod between the first two, Original Movies... Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...

Yet LucasArts is producing the Expansions for this game and they keep pushing in Episode II and III content... instead of content designed for the correct time line. Not only that, the new Clone Wars Content... is far better then the current timeline content... which supposed to be 20 years more advanced.

Jedi's... You wanna play a Jedi... this should be called, Star Wars: KOTOR Online. The Jedi Population is out of control and it was SOE's biggest mistake to allow players to become Jedi's... They should have left that as a rarity in the game, only had a few NPC Jedi's like Luke Skywalker in the game, as novelties for offering special Quests...

But no... they wanted to let players be Jedi's as a selling point.

How many Jedi did you see charging across the Hoth Battle Field with Luke, to take down the Imperial Walkers?

In Star Wars: Galaxies... there will be several hundred of them out there on Hoth... if SOE and LucasArts ever gets around to adding Hoth.

They're too busy adding Episode II and III content like the planets Kashyyyk and Mustafar... speaking of which, if you're a Jedi then you can go to Mustafar and help save Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost; whose "lost his way" ... how lame is that?

Now, they can't remove the Jedi from the game like they should.. because they hyped up being Jedi so much that "everyone and their mother" has one, or has played one... and would cry, bitch and comlain if SOE removed them.

SOE is "claiming" all these changes are making the game feel more "Star Wars" like... however within the last two weeks they have destroyed the in-game player economy, destroyed the orininal 30 Player Professions and redesigned 9 new ones... removed the ability to play a Hybrid Profession.. and turned the game into a massive online FPS that seems like it is based off of the KOTOR Timeline, instead of the Timeline it is supposed to be based off of... and ruined the combat system.

Do not buy this game.

If you want to play a Star Wars game, go play one of the Console Games like Star Wars: KOTOR series... or the new BattleFront series.

At present, this is probably one of the worst Star Wars Games ever made now.

It is all thanks to mismanagement and bad design ideas at SOE and LucasArts... who both seem to think they can use this game to completely rewrite all of Star Wars history.

Maybe, someday in the future they'll get smart and fix this game... but for now... George Lucas ought to be ashamed of this game, it is an embarrassement to the Star Wars Universe.

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A reader

OK at Best, Rushed to the Market

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2003

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This game has tons of content... if by content you mean vast expanses of nothingness and sporadic regenerating monsters with their spawning "nests". While scenery is nice at times, this game was a huge disappointment. Example: a 30 min jog to see the sarlacc pit (huge mouth in the sand Jabba throws guys in on the movie) to find that it is a 2D, non-interactive .bmp image laid horizontally in the desert sand. Oh, and it will take you at least 2 weeks of gameplay to master the weaponry and skills necessary to defeat a single 40-pound frog whose only defense seems to be in hopping at you and making noises. After becoming a master craftsman, sure you can make a lot of stuff..but you've spent so much time and effort in developing your crafting skills that you have minimal survivalist and combat abilities..which means the only point in being a craftsman is the accumulation of money from selling the stuff you make. While this may be entertaining for some, crafting and selling and crafting and selling and crafting and selling makes you feel more like a Guatemalan blanket weaver crafting for daily sustenance than an adventurer in the starwars realm. In truth, there is no point to this game... and any self-created goal, including opening a Jedi slot and becoming one, is MUCH MORE WORK THAN FUN!!!! I'm not going to go through the massive number and annoyance of bugs in this game...I really don't have the time. Just do a "swg" search on google and read through the results. My opinion is that this game was rushed to the market in fear of the much anticipated release of World of Warcraft by Blizzard.

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