As such, a chunk of the campaign story line revolves around characters and situations from the movie, but a good portion is also dedicated to the original trilogy and The Phantom Menace. Buy it on game was released to roughly coincide with the premiere of the 2002 Star Wars blockbuster Attack of the Clones. It's still just as good as I remembered! The music is epic, the voice acting is adequate, and the game mechanics are perfectly tuned.Įverything works well on Linux - even if it does take just a little bit of fiddling to get it right. In which case, I recommend running without the Virtual Desktop. One thing to note, if you're using the Virtual Desktop, you may find the game doesn't take over the whole screen - leaving you unable to access the lower portions. I didn't notice any graphical glitches - but this game is over a decade old, so the graphics are quite low resolution. Tell the game options that you want to play at 1280*1024 - this will switch it to widescreen. If you've got a laptop or modern monitor, you'll probably want to make use of all that extra space. This game was originally designed for a 4:3 screen. I've no idea which ports need forwarding.
Remember, Microsoft Zone doesn't exist any more - so you'll either have to play with people on a LAN, or ask for their external IP address. Our two laptops communicated quite happily over WiFi. On restarting the game, you should now be able to play across a LAN. To get multiplayer working, I followed this advice and installed DirectPlay from Microsoft (you can ignore the stuff about disabling your network adapter). I did find that running the virtual desktop at a lower resolution occasionally gave graphical glitches like this : The virtual desktop will expand and shrink depending on the resolution of the game. To solve this, run SWGB in a Virtual Desktop : wine explorer /desktop=name,1024x768 swgbg.exe I found that on quitting the game, my desktop wouldn't always revert back to to the correct resolution. You can now run the basic version of SWGB without any fuss.
Install the game as normal, the installer will probably crash at the end, ignore it. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 - but the steps should be broadly similar on any distro. This is a brief guide to getting the game working on Linux - including multiplayer and widescreen. That was the game which introduced me & my wife to collaborative gameplay, so I was incredibly excited to see it available again. OMG! Good Old Games has the amazing Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds available for a mere £3.99.
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