The Empire at War Remake mod has been around for years but the latest incarnation is especially swish, as you can see from the fancy Star Destroyer battle above. Star Wars: Empire at War, one of the best space games on PC, has never looked this good before. Maybe I will after a few hours of Empire at War.
The mod community also has a Discord server. You can check out Empire at War Remake: Galactic Civil War on ModDB, or go straight to the 3.0 update. You can get Star Wars Empire at War and its expansion, which you’ll need for the mod, pretty cheaply on Steam or GOG, just $6.99 for the winter sale.
Here’s a bunch of pretty pictures of the mod in action: Empire at War Remake has also been given the Mod of the Year award by the ModDB community, surprising literally no-one.
I’m a particular fan of this mod because of its philosophy: It doesn’t really muck with the core game experience or add too much new material, but it does rework what it needs to and adds (optional) much-needed difficulty. Empire at War is a strategy game released in 2006, and we still consider it to be one of the best space games on PC. The most recent release, the 3.0 update, brought a whole host of new stuff and graphical improvements to the mod. Not only does this mod update the game to cutting-edge visual standards with new models and effects, it adds new units and deepens the game mechanics. I guess we can thaw him out because I just checked the mod page and hot damn. The update does more than restore Empire at War’s multiplayer functions, though it also adds mod support via Steamworks and fixes multiple graphical and stability issues, “so you won’t get interrupted by errors and glitches as you fight for control of the galaxy.” The update from Petroglyph covers both the core game and the Forces of Corruption expansion.Last year, when we discovered the Star Wars Empire at War Remake mod, Fraser Brown requested to be frozen in carbonite until it was done. The game’s fan base has only increased with time and the user concurrency rates remain very strong, so we really felt like this was something we needed to do for all the loyal fans.” We have received a huge number of requests to restore the multiplayer functionality to Star Wars: Empire at War. According to Petroglyph general manager Chuck Kroegel, multiplayer functionality was only brought back to the game thanks to its dedicated fan base.
The update – now available for download – restores Empire at War’s multiplayer functionality by removing its old Gamespy ties and implementing Steam multiplayer in its stead. Still listed as one of the most popular Star Wars games on Steam, Star Wars: Empire at War courted a huge player base, which became stunted after online matchmaking middleware company Gamespy shut down in 2013. In a completely unexpected update, indie game developer Petroglyph teamed up with Disney to release a massive update that restores multiplayer functionality to its 2006 RTS Star Wars: Empire at War.
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