A 4X Star Wars Strategy Epic
Star Wars and strategy games go together like peanut butter and jelly—as previous excellent RTS games like Commander, Battlegrounds, and Empire at War can attest. But what about something that goes even grander than those games and pulls you back out to a truly intergalactic scale, managing the Republic (New, High, Old, or otherwise—or the Empire, or the CIS, or carving out your own imagined intergalactic faction) on the scope of star systems, instead of right on the ground? The tenets of a “4X” strategy game—Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate—can make for grand storytelling opportunities that you can’t just get out of the kinds of strategy games Star Wars has done in the past. That said, we wouldn’t mind a few of those, either.
