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Star wars empire at war - forces of corruption
Wed, 1st Nov 2006
FYI, this story is more than a year old

Forces of Corruption is the highly anticipated expansion pack to the best selling PC Star Wars real-time strategy game and presents a new, unique point of view of the Galactic Civil War. For the first time ever, you play as an aspiring Underworld figure and corruption runs through your veins. The Rebels have just destroyed the Death Star, and the galaxy is in turmoil. In other words, it’s just the time that you, an ambitious criminal genius named Tyber Zann, have been waiting for. This is your chance to quench your thirst for power as you build and lead your own forces of scum and villainy and basically spread corruption throughout the galaxy. Having this whole new faction adds a surprising amount of extra gameplay to Empires at War. Now you can implement new strategies (the down and dirty ones) allowing you to influence other sides, steal their funds (or technologies), slow their production, bribe their suppliers, spy on them and basically spread your corruption through-out the whole galaxy. You’re not tied down to sneaky, evasive tactics either as you have an arsenal of guerrilla warfare devices too - such as chemical weapons, kidnapping, piracy, radioactive contamination, mines, holograms, disguises and camouflage. Yeah!And furthermore - the ultimate prize awaits: an immense Super Star Destroyer known as the Eclipse. Spanning the length of nearly 11 of the Star Destroyers seen in the original Empire at War, this deadliest capital ship in the galaxy comes equipped with a super-mega-uber-laser rivalling that of the Death Star is just waiting to be stolen and used for... whatever you want!