History VideoGame / StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds

* AIIsACrapshoot: the AI is slightly better than in Age of Empires II in some departments, but still leaves a lot to be desired. The AI will frequently throw units at you one by one instead of mustering a proper attack force, units attacking buildings will keep doing so even while being shot to pieces by your troops. Their pathfinding and formation skills are also fairly dubious: ordering a group of units to attack a target only to watch the closest ones move '''away''' from it (to form up with the rear-most units, which the AI isn't very good at either) can be especially frustrating.

* JustifiedTutorial: The Basic Training campaign revolves around a group of Wookiee colonists, led by Chewbacca's father Attichitcuk, who are taught by Qui-Gon Jinn on how to maintain a strong colony on the hostile world of Alaris Prime.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: All ranged units, including infantry, artillery, and even starfighters, are incapable of attacking without coming to a complete halt first. Although since this game ''was'' made using the [[Franchise/AgeOfEmpires Genie engine]], this is to be expected.

* AscendedExtra: The Wookiees, despite not appearing in the movies as a faction (At least not until ''Film/Revenge of the Sith''), have a total of ''two'' campaigns of their own in the game, and one of them happens to be the [[JustifiedTutorial Basic Training]] campaign.

* AnachronismStew: Playing in Standard mode you can have a battle between the Empire and the Republic despite the fact that they are the same civilization at different points in history. You can even get Darth Vader versus Anakin Skywalker.

''Franchise/StarWars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' is an VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires-style strategy game where players pick a faction and try to complete the objectives. The original game featured the Rebel Alliance, the Galactic Empire, the Royal Naboo Security Forces, the Gungans, the Trade Federation, and the Wookiees. Clone Campaigns, its expansion, included a new Air Cruiser model for all factions, a new type of supply droid, as well as the factions of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems (aka, the Clone Army and the Separatists, respectively).

* DistantPrologue: The Gungan campaign begins three thousand years before the events of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and dedicates the first three levels to Boss Nass's ancestor, Gallo, who is attempting the unite the Gungan tribes against the tyrant Boss Rogoe.

** ProlongedPrologue: Said three levels might seem this way to casual gamers that were expecting to start out fighting the Trade Federation right away.

* Either that or Age of Star Wars

** Rediscovering the game after letting it gather dust for years, I would say "identical" is an overstatement -- it has, for obvious reasons, a whole lot more ranged combat than its predessecor, it introduces a rudimentary "power" system (buildings without a "power core" in its vicinity builds and conducts research at 1/4 speed), deflector shields (a second, regenerating pool of hit points) and space maps, and playing with speeders, tanks and walkers instead of cavalry is quite interesting... but yes, it's kept a lot of the features of its "ancestor", and I feel you'd be justified in calling it "Age of Empires II in space".

* WeatherofWar: averted ''hard'', particularly in the case of Gungans riding winged creatures into space without any kind of breathing apparatuses.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Much like in AgeOfEmpires there are four resources the player gathers, food, carbon(wood), nova crystals(gold), and ore (stone).

* ConstructAdditionalPylons: while there are some Fixed Force missions, your forces always seem to be able to find the resouces to build a base and the recruits to field an army. In the second rebel mission, you start out deep in Imperial-controlled woods, not that this stops you from building a small base and train a small army right under the Imperials' noses.

* AIIsACrapshoot: the AI is slightly better than in Age of Empires II in some departments, but still leaves a lot to be desired. The AI will frequently throw units at you one by one instead of mustering a proper attack force, units attacking buildings will keep doing so even while being shot to pieces by your troops. Their pathfinding and formation skills are also fairly dubious.

* MostAnnoyingSound: lots and lots; SWGB is fairly weak in the sound effects department. Selecting a group of Rebel tauntaun cavalry and having to listen to the same grunting sounds every time you give them a move order will drive you nuts -- almost as bad as the error sound you hear every time you do something wrong (like trying to build a building you don't have enough resources for, or hitting the "Idle Worker" button without actually having idling workers).

* ConstructAdditionalPylons
* DamageIsFire
* ExpansionPack: ''Clone Campaigns''.

* MacGuffin: Jedi Holocrons are the equivalent to relics.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Much like in AgeOfEmpires there are four resources the player gathers, food, carbon(wood), nova crystals(gold), and ore (stone).

* NotPlayingFairWithResources

''Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' is an AgeOfEmpires-style strategy game where players pick a faction and try to complete the objectives. The original game featured the Rebel Alliance, the Galactic Empire, the Royal Naboo Security Forces, the Gungans, the Trade Federation, and the Wookiees. Clone Campaigns, its expansion, included a new Air Cruiser model for all factions, a new type of supply droid, as well as the factions of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems (aka, the Clone Army and the Separatists, respectively).

* ExpansionPack: Clone Campaigns
* HeyItsThatVoice: 2-1B, the medical droid that had a brief appearance in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', is voiced by none other than [[SuperMarioBros Mario]].