Game Features
Star Wars Galaxies offers a host of features to enhance your gameplay and help you better realize your adventures in the Galactic Civil War. Below is listed a number of these features and you can rest assured that Sony is constantly working on adding more.
- Entirely new 3D engine designed to portray the Star Wars galaxy in the greatest possible detail
- A seamless universe spanning ten fully-realized Star Wars worlds, from the films and expanded universe, each with over 15 x 15 kilometers of explorable terrain
- Define your own role in the galaxy with 8 playable species and over 30 professions; become bounty hunters, smugglers, squad leaders and more!
- Many social skills including dancing, musicianship and image designer
- Advanced character customization tool that allows you to define nearly every detail of your character's appearance
- Grow your character with an in-depth and flexible skill-based system of advancement
- Highly configurable User Interface
- Highly cinematic and tactical combat system that focuses on blasters and other ranged weapons
- Ally and fight with the Rebel or Imperial sides of the Galactic Civil War, or remain neutral
- Rewarding faction system that allows players to gain special perks by fighting in the Galactic Civil War
- Battlefields, where players can square off against one another or NPCs to earn faction standing
- Placeable Minefields and Turrets
- Encounter and interact with 180+ unique creatures and hundreds of NPCs, including "named" characters like Darth Vader and Boba Fett
- Robust chat system including hundreds of emotes, moods, chat styles, persistent messages and player created channels
- Dynamic resource surveying and mining
- Advanced crafting system
- Completely player-run in-game economy that includes an in-game Marketplace that allows auctions and sales of in-game items
- Jabba's Palace, the Emperor's Retreat, a Rebel hideout, and other "theme parks" offer a variety of missions for and encounters with well-known Star Wars characters
- Dynamic Points of Interest that provide a huge supply of adventures
- Random Mission system for shorter play sessions
- Bounty Hunting skills and missions, with both PVE and PVP opportunities
- Player-based dynamic spawning system takes into account a player's relative strength and creates suitable encounters
- Natural AI behaviors, including herding, stalking and lair defending
- Player built and placed housing, shops and structures
- Player groups of up to twenty players
- Player run associations of up to 500 players
- Badge system that rewards achievement in various areas
- An in-game Matchmaking Service, helpful for identifying players with similar hobbies
- The chance to unlock the mysterious Force Sensitive character slot and attempt to master the most exhilarating and dangerous role in the galaxy...the Jedi.
- Full team support with future expansions and updates
