Empire at War, anyone else looking forward to this?

[Zalmoxis]

Haven't seen enough of it to make up my mind.

[The_Doctor]

The demo comes out on wednesday.

[Androo]

I just hope that there's a decent amount of strategy involved and it's not just a clicking contest.

Amen! I have my doubts, now: I believe the people behind this did Command and Conquer(?), which I don't know anything about. But I believe C&C begat The Battle for Middle Earth, which, for me anyway, was a huge disappointment for just that reason. I really much prefer the TW model, ie turn-based strategy, real time tactical.

One thing that shouldn't bother me but does is the scale. the infantry are half as tall as AT-ST, and Darth Vader is almost as tall as one.......

Me too. Playing a PC game is all about immersion for me, and a huge part of that is graphics which are as realistic as possible. If not, why not just use a 2d top-down map with symbolic units like the little cardboard counters utilized by kitchen-table-top wargames and be done with it? And a fairly important part of realistic graphics is scale.

I was looking forward to this game, but the more I hear about it, the more pessimistic about it I become...

In the event that it's a failure, there's always the warlords mod for Homeworld 2.

Also the Operation Flashpoint Star Wars-mod-in-progress. Not strategic, just tactical of course. It has a long way to go, but to me most of what has been done so far already looks much cooler than Battlefront II. (If anybody is interested, some of the better screenshots at the above site are to be found in the "Addons Downloads" and "Addons" sections. Check out the Millennium Falcon!)

...games where troops fight until they die, just doesnt cut it for me anymore...

Yes, definitely. (That was one of the many things I couldn't take about Imperial Glory.)