Disney launches Star Wars: Commander combat strategy game for Android

Since Disney picked up Lucasfilm back in 2012, they have taken over all things Star Wars. For better or for worse, Disney has produce two prior Star Wars themed titles that are available for Android; Star Wars: Assault Team – a strategy card based style game and Star Wars: Tiny Death Star – a vertical tower 8-bit game. Today we now have a new one to add to the roster, Star Wars: Commander.

In Star Wars: Commander you choose your side as either the Rebellion or the Empire. Like many titles before it, you build up your base, train troops and go on various missions all themed after the iconic franchise. You will need to build up defenses to thwart attacks and go one the offensive with a variety troops and vehicles all across the galaxy.

The title was launched a few weeks earlier on iOS and has now since made its way to both Android and Windows devices. Disney is keeping it real with in-app purchase business model. So you can sit ideally by while you wait for troops to be trained and building to be built and upgraded, or you can drop cash on in-game currency to speed things up a bit.

I pulled the trigger to see how she played out a bit. The opening story puts you on Tatooine as a mercenary. You get a little taste of Rebel Alliance and the Empire in a tiny mission supporting both sides. They give you a good little tutorial along with enough ‘credits’ and gems to get thing up and running pretty quickly. I can already see a little frustration coming from the deployment of troops on the battlefield though. Once dropped they just attack things. You have no control over their targets. It also seems apparent that you need to be a bit frugal with your troops deployment too. At least on the first few levels, if I deployed all troops, when I returned to the base I was troopless, no matter if they all survived.

Play Store comments seem to be less than stellar. Seems most issues are centered around Facebook connection not functioning. That is a fairly critical element if you plan to make friends or cross sync your game data to play on multiple devices.

If you are a die-hard Star Wars fan, or happen to really enjoy base defense combat strategy style games, Star Wars: Commander is looking pretty good. If they can get the Facebook situation ironed out it will certainly help out a lot. The title is free, so it doesn’t hurt to give it a shot, right?