Flatfingers wrote:My one disagreement is Star Wars: Rebellion. Oh, my. No, this one does not make it onto my "good" list. It's possible there was an enjoyable game somewhere in there, but Rebellion had one of the most frustratingly cumbersome user interfaces it has ever been my misfortune to encounter. Everything was harder than it needed to be. Playing this game was like clubbing yourself in the crotch with a cactus -- repeatedly -- in order to get an occasional cupcake. It's possible that mods might help it, but my experience was that the version most people saw was nigh-unplayable.
Yeah it is a very divisive game amongst Star Wars game fans, and you are right the whole GUI is one of the worst around (for a game). But overtime it just grew on me, and like i said if you want a proper strategic game set in the SW universe, Rebellion is still really the only best option, but you have to be able to get over the GUI issues first to appreciate what it does do well.
Neither Force Commander nor the Empire at War games got as 'deep' and grand-strategy as Rebellion, which is a shame cause i'd give my right hand to have a proper Star Wars grand strategy game (like a SW version of the Civ games) that used the characters and units well, and wasn't RTS twitch based gaming. But yeah i know putting that game on the list is contentious, for all the things it did badly. It is however a unique SW experience amidst all the action/fps games, and made my top ten list on that merit.