Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Details

Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Details
[Apr 21, 2004, 11:32 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

LucasArts has revealed details about the promised Jump to Lightspeed expansion that will add spaceflight to their massively multiplayer Star Wars game, saying to expect the add-on this fall:

LUCASARTS ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF STAR WARS GALAXIES(r): JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED

Marin County, Calif. - April 21, 2004 - The struggle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance extends into space with Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed, the first expansion for the award-winning Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing game set in the Star Wars(r) universe. Releasing in fall 2004 for the PC, this highly anticipated addition will dramatically expand the Star Wars Galaxies franchise by providing players more than 15 different vehicles for space exploration and combat.

Starfighters and other starships will be featured in the expansion that can be used for both space exploration and combat, allowing players to join up with allies and fly familiar X-wings and TIE fighters into battle against faction-aligned opponents and AI-controlled ships. Transport ships similar to the well-known Millennium Falcon will also be added into the game, allowing players to venture through space with friends aboard.

Set in the Star Wars timeframe between Episode IV and Episode V, this first extension to the Star Wars Galaxies foundation opens 10 vast and distinct space sectors, spanning from the Core Worlds to the Outer Rim, for players to explore while engaging their opponents in intense real-time combat or uniting with friends in battle or exploration. Players can embark on more than 100 new missions, venturing through asteroid fields, nebulae and space junkyards while honing skills in four new space-specific professions. The game also features two new and completely customizable species.

Since its launch in June 2003, Star Wars Galaxies has allowed players to live the Star Wars saga and become immersed in the classic Star Wars universe simultaneously. Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed continues the full immersion in the greatest Star Wars saga ever told: Yours.

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woah
Apr 21, 2004, 13:09

Jerry S Ku

woah Apr 21, 2004, 13:09

Apr 21, 2004, 13:09

Jerry S Ku

if the space combat gets good press, i might have to check this out and ignore my "i hate monthly fee game" policy. I played the hell out of all the X-wing series games. But the X-wing games never quite got out of its arcade flight model... where the ships rapidly decelerate or accelerate with a few push of some buttons, and "dogfights" between players looked very, very silly. Of course, no one complained about this when it came to singleplayer, as the physics made each player an ace pilot within an hour of playing. And the AI can't complain :-P

This resulted in a game that really didn't look anything like the space combat you see in Star Wars 4. Hopefully they threw in the WW2 air combat physics into the game. Yes it's completely unrealistic, but that's what Star Wars space combat has been always based on, and a game based on Star Wars shouldn't forget that. Now if you're a WW2 sim junkie like I was, you're probably sayin "Uh, there's no gravity in space. So how do you gain or lose energy (speed)?!"
Well, I think Lucasarts should just defy reality and pretend "that large planet over there in the distance is your gravity source. Dive towards it and you go faster, climb away from it and you go slower. Look at your instruments to see what is 'up' and what is 'down'." And wala, the game finally plays like Star Wars 4 (which, by the way, is the only movie that is accurately STAR wars... every other movie is about lightsabers and small green dudes..... ugh.)

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Apr 21, 2004Apr 21 2004

LATE!

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Apr 21, 2004Apr 21 2004

Re: LATE!

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