
As you leave the Anchorhead spaceport, you will see the taxi and the Speeder vendor to It seems like there’s been an awakening with these classic titles lately.Post author. It isn’t the first time this has happened though, as the RTS Empire at War had its online multiplayer resurrected last month by original developer Petroglyph Games. Over on the GoG forums, a team member said that issues are “most likely related to the matchmaking servers being hit with much bigger traffic than anticipated,” and that they were working on a fix as you’re reading this, most likely.īreathing new life into this beloved classic is a great gesture of goodwill towards the Star Wars gaming community. It absolutely works, but it seems like there are some kinks that still need to be worked out. A friend and I managed to get into a game I hosted, and it wound up being a laggy mess to the point where we just gave up on it after a bit.
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By a few hiccups, I mean getting into a game was like pulling teeth or a meaningful act of Congress unless I was the one hosting it. That said, I decided to try it out and ran into a few hiccups.

Disney also threw up a hype statement over on the game’s Steam page, basically confirming the collaboration. We can thank GoG and Disney for this one, with the former putting out a statement mentioning that the game is cross-play compatible between Steam and their own Galaxy client. That’s right, not the one with an open beta coming this weekend, but the game that a much younger me put countless hours into it back on the PS2. It’s a game whose life across online multiplayer was seemingly over with GameSpy’s shutdown a few years ago but found its way back out of a metaphorical rancor pit. Sure, I had updates of Mirage: Arcane Warfare and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the queue, but along with it was a game I thought I’d never see there 2005’s Star Wars Battlefront II. By Michael Owens 4 years ago Follow Tweetĭisney and GoG teamed up to breathe new life into the PC version of 2005’s Star Wars Battlefront II in a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.Īs I came home from the day job on Monday night and opened up Steam, I noticed something odd.
