Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed was the first expansion pack to the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies. This expansion finally allowed players to explore and battle in ten sectors of outer space, in more than…
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Sony Online Entertainment, released 27 October 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed is
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and released in 2004. It was published by LucasArts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed was the first expansion pack to the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies. This expansion finally allowed players to explore and battle in ten sectors of outer space, in more than twenty types of starships from the era between Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, including familiar X-wings, TIE Fighters, and YT-1300s (same type as the Millennium Falcon), as well as new and never before seen ships created by the developers. It also added real-time space shooter elements to the game, which allowed for an interesting combination with the turn-based mode already featured in the ground-based. Jump to Lightspeed also added…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are science fiction.
Where it sits in the Star Wars series
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed is the 121st of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords in 2004. Its critic score of 75 is 4 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.
How it was received
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed launched on 27 October 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.
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