The most important part of the character creation process is choosing your starting profession, which is basically your character class.

The game prevents you from naming your character after anyone from the Star Wars canon, though you should still expect to see many in-game wookiees with names played off Chewbacca and in-game rodians with names played off Greedo, and so forth. When creating your character, you have a lot of control over the shape of his or her face, and you can also adjust his or her body type, so you can make a rather distinctive-looking character-and that's a big part of Star Wars Galaxies' appeal. Typically, your choice of race affects your character's proficiencies-for example, wookiees are very strong, while mon calamari are smarter than average-but in practice, your choice of race is mostly superficial. Star Wars Galaxies lets you create a character by choosing from male or female versions of eight different Star Wars races, including humans and wookiees, as well as the fish-faced mon calamari, the bug-eyed rodians, and more. Now Playing: Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Video Review The best thing about Star Wars Galaxies is that it features instantly recognizable characters and places from the Star Wars universe.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Then again, Star Wars Galaxies does have Star Wars going for it.

In the wake of the game's release, a number of key features are still in development (namely, player-driven cities, mounts, and vehicles), and the existing game content isn't all that much different or better than what's available in other, similar games.

It actually fits squarely into the mold of numerous other games of this type, only it looks better, features authentic Star Wars creatures and characters, and has a number of interface enhancements not found in previous online RPGs. At any rate, Galaxies is finally here, and it's not the life-changing event that some prospective players convinced themselves it would be. The excitement over the game was for fairly obvious reasons: The Star Wars universe seemed like it would be the perfect setting for such a game, and Star Wars Galaxies promised to be more than just EverQuest in space-it wouldn't be yet another online RPG where the gameplay revolved almost exclusively around killing monsters and gaining levels, but would instead offer numerous interesting non-combat-oriented player professions. Though massively multiplayer online role-playing games have been around for years, none to date have been as highly anticipated as Star Wars Galaxies.

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