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Ride in style with the Star Wars Galaxies Premium Adventure Pack

by Rubi Bayer Nov 22nd 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, Expansions, News items, Star Wars Galaxies

Sony Online Entertainment has a Star Wars Galaxies package available for purchase now that offers some pretty compelling incentives. Of course you get the game and all three expansions: Jump to Lightspeed, Rage of the Wookiees, and The Trials of Obi-Wan, but the in-game bonus items are what really make it worth the purchase of the Premium Adventure Pack.

Each account includes a free AT-RT to give to one of your characters. Even better, you will also get the sleek Queen Amidala transport ship. That one is one per character, so no need to choose -- even the alts can enjoy some new toys. We saved the coolest for last, though: you may well be parking the transport ship for a while in favor of the General Grevious wheel bike. That one is also one per character, and even better, it's a two seater with room for a friend.

SOE put together a fun little video of the wheel bike in action, so take a look. More information on the Premium Adventure Pack can be found here.

Tags: jump-to-lightspeed, rage-of-the-wookiees, SOE, sony-online-entertainment, star-wars-galaxies, star-wars-galaxies-premium-adventure-pack, the-trials-of-obi-wan

Behind the Curtain: Great Expectations

by Craig Withers Jan 17th 2008 at 2:00PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Sci-fi, EVE Online, Economy, Game mechanics, Opinion, Star Wars Galaxies, Behind the Curtain

I'd like to talk about what MMOs you've gone into with expectations, and what disappointments, if any, you've had during your time there. Perhaps you paid just a little nit too much attention to the press releases, maybe you fell for the bullshot (yes, I know I've linked that comic before), it doesn't really matter. I'm going to share some of my disappointments, hopefully you'll feel moved to do the same in the Comments.

Star Wars Galaxies
I love Star Wars, so when I started playing Galaxies, I had visions of TIE Fighters and Star Destroyers, running battles with Imperial Storm Troopers and making shady deals in the Mos Eisley Cantina. What I got instead was a game where all I ended up doing was taking random missions from computer terminals which invariably involved me running out into the wilderness to kill some 'malevolent' creatures on behalf of some farmers who never actually seemed to appear in-game, for a paltry reward.

I spent a lot of time on Corellia – having read extensively in the Expanded Universe, I imagined a bustling, thriving metropolis with smugglers and scoundrels round every corner, and with opportunities for exciting adventures right under the nose of the Empire. What I got was a collection of buildings dumped unceremoniously in the middle of the nowhere, at times seemingly populated only by myself and the NPCs.

Tags: disappointment, economy, eve, eve-online, expectations, featured, jump-to-lightspeed, star-wars, star-wars-galaxies, world-of-warcraft, wow

Massively's Top 5 Sci-Fi MMOs

by Samuel Axon Nov 27th 2007 at 11:30AM

Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry

Orcs and Elves are all well and good, but some of us are more attracted to a mythical future than to a mythical past. Sci-Fi is trendy again, in case you hadn't heard. From Tabula Rasa to Star Trek Online (we hope), the future belongs to, well ... the future. But what about the past of the future? Sorry; this is getting more verbally confusing than a Voyager time paradox episode. Let's put it this way: click through the jump to see Massively's top 5 Sci-Fi MMOs to date!

Can you think of any tragic omissions? To paraphrase a character from pop culture, "Science Fiction is neither Science nor Fiction. Discuss!"

Tags: anarchy-online, ccp, ea, earth-and-beyond, eve-online, featured, funcom, joystiqfeatures, jump-to-lightspeed, list, new-game-enhancements, nge, planetside, sci-fi, science-fiction, soe, star-trek-online, star-wars-galaxies, tabula-rasa, top-5, westwood

One Shots: Jump to lightspeed? But we were admiring the view!

by Elizabeth Harper Nov 19th 2007 at 2:00PM

Filed under: Screenshots, Star Wars Galaxies, One Shots

Reader RogueJedi86 sends in this shot taken of some of the astonishing space scenery in the Star Wars Galaxies Jump to Lightspeed expansion. He believes this particular nebula was over Kashyyyk, but it can be difficult to tell which region the shot was taken in. Do any SWG experts in the audience want to take a guess as to where, exactly, this shot comes from?

We're looking for One Shots submissions and hereby challenge you, good readers, to send in your screenshots and stories! Were you there when Morpheus walked among us in The Matrix Online? Do you have screens of when Luclin came in EverQuest? Were you around for the opening of the Dark Portal in WoW? Okay, we admit, that last one was a trick question -- obviously the servers weren't stable enough for anyone to have been online to see the Dark Portal open. But send us your screenshots anyway! E-mail them to us at oneshots@massively.com, and you could find your shot and story featured here for all to see!

Gallery: One Shots