你(Are)准备好继续史诗般的传奇(epic saga)了吗？你感受到你内心的力量了吗？32 年后，等待终于结束：原力(Force)终于觉醒了，我们可以潜入可能是有史以来最好的故事的另一集。我们知道我们比新的《星球大战》电影(Star Wars movie)有更多的乐趣，我们的中氯原水平会上升得更高。EA 刚刚发布了适用于Android的(Android)《星球大战(Star Wars)：英雄(Heroes)银河(Galaxy)》 ，因此您可以在去电影院之前或之后享受每日精彩的科幻片。(Sci-Fi right)这是一款非常适合安卓的游戏(Android)，让我们看看它为粉丝和休闲游戏玩家提供了什么：
来吧，加入黑暗面！
现在冷静(Calm)下来，年轻的学徒，在你看到另一边是否真的有饼干之前，还有很多东西要学：首先你至少应该知道这是怎么回事。星球大战：英雄银河(Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes)是一款经典的回合制战斗游戏(battle game)，具有RPG 风格(RPG-style combat)的战斗，类似于大多数日本角色扮演游戏中的战斗，如最终幻想系列(Final Fantasy series)。游戏的目标是从部队(force and progress)的光明面和黑暗面收集英雄，并通过一系列战斗取得进展，收集多种奖励，升级你的英雄并解锁新功能。
整个游戏的设置就像一场大型的 holotable 锦标赛：根据Wookieepedia的说法，holotable 是星球大战宇宙中(Star Wars universe)“用于玩虚拟游戏、观看事物或与他人建立通信的娱乐和通信设备(entertainment and communication device)” 。在我们的例子中，它被用来与传奇中著名地点的敌人进行这些战斗。
当您第一次启动游戏时，您会看到一个教程，该教程将引导您完成游戏的第一步，并向您展示其主要功能。这使事情变得更简单(bit simpler)，因为有很多东西要发现。您会看到，起初您只能玩Light Side Battles，您可以在其中建立一支由Light Side角色组成的团队，以击败由来自Dark Side的角色组成的团队。这些战斗是针对 AI 的，但是一旦玩家等级达到 8 级(player level 8)，您就可以解锁小队竞技场(Squad Arena)，这是您可以与人类对手及其团队对战的第一个地方。
收集和征服
战斗时总是需要组建最多六个角色的团队，这需要大量的战略技巧。所有角色都有其特定的优势和劣势，特殊能力和升级，因此很大程度上取决于您的团队设置(team setup)。一旦进入战斗，角色轮流攻击：每个角色都有一个基本攻击和一个或多个特殊能力：这些特殊能力只能在几回合内使用一次。当然，每场战斗的目标是消灭所有敌方角色，同时至少有一个自己的角色幸存下来。
如果您赢得了一场战斗，您将获得一系列奖励，这些奖励可用于使您的角色更加强大。您可以获得可用于提高角色等级的训练机器人，使它们更强大。装备(Gear)也很重要：通过将物品分配给角色的装备槽，您可以增加他们的统计数据，一旦您填满他们的所有槽位，您就可以升级他们的装备等级 - 这样做几次，角色就会获得新的能力。
您还可以找到角色碎片：这些碎片是针对每个角色的，如果您找到全套，您可以解锁一个新角色。或者你可以升级你已经拥有的角色的星数(star count)——它拥有的星数越多，它就越强大。您还可以收集四种资源：水晶（用于购买数据卡(Data Cards)、能量刷新、运输物品(Energy refreshes, Shipments items)和重置冷却时间）、银币（升级角色等级、能力和星数(star count)所需）、能量（战斗所需）战斗 - 它在 6 分钟内刷新 1 点）和 sim 票（用于立即再次完成以前以满分完成的战斗并获得新的奖励）。
纸牌大师
在数据卡(Data Cards)部分，您可以购买两种不同类型的卡（或卡包）：Chromium 和 Bronzium(Chromium and Bronzium)。这些在购买时会随机掉落角色、角色碎片、装备或积分。每20分钟一次，你可以免费获得一张青铜卡(Bronzium card)，但更强大的铬(Chromium)卡只能用水晶购买。
这就是我们进入游戏中最成问题的部分：水晶真的很难获得，并且需要很长时间才能获得大量的水晶。但是，当然，您可以用真钱购买一包。在游戏的早期阶段，这不是一个真正的问题，因为您精力充沛。然而，后来游戏变得有时间限制，因为能量再生缓慢，你不会有很多水晶来购买能量刷新。我们只能希望 EA 制作了一款公平的游戏，并且从长远来看，事情的平衡(game and things balance)相当好，这意味着你不必花钱来玩游戏。
除了卡片，您还可以购买运输物品(Shipment items)：这些是角色碎片、训练机器人和不同种类的装备 - 如果您急需某些东西，您可以在这里得到它，而不是打仗，希望偶然发现它。发货一开始是锁定的，其他很多部分：例如，可以与人类对手战斗的小队竞技场，在(Squad Arena)8 级(level 8)解锁，但事件(Events)在52 级(level 52)解锁，因此需要相当长的时间来体验游戏的各个方面游戏。
由于这是一个星球大战游戏(Wars game)，我们不得不提到与这个宇宙相关的功能。好在开发商EA拿到版权没有问题，所以一切都是真实的：你可以收集电影中的知名英雄和反派并与之战斗，并参观你只在大屏幕上看到的场景。音乐、图形、声音和角色都是熟悉且精心设计的。游戏提供了一个真正的挑战，而不仅仅是长度：战斗变得越来越难，如果这还不够，你可以在特殊的困难模式中重玩每一场，在那里你可以获得特殊的角色碎片。
下载：(Download:) 星球大战：英雄银河(Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes)。
判决
2015 年对于《星球大战》(Star Wars)的粉丝来说是丰收的一年：传奇以期待已久的第七集回归，而游戏玩家则在我们的Android平板电脑和智能手机上获得了一款出色的(Android)格斗游戏(fighting game)，这可能会花费我们大量的时间。即使探索主要特征也需要半个小时。EA 对《星球大战：英雄银河》(Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes)所做的就是将卡片收集(card collecting)、角色扮演游戏(RPG)和充满动作的战斗完美融合，所有这些都被包裹在一个视觉上吸引人的包装中。
作为软件巨头(software giant)，艺电可能会不断在游戏中注入新的内容，所以我们可以肯定地说，我们不会在很长一段时间内对它感到厌烦。它的重玩价值(replay value)巨大，因为您可以随时进行几场战斗，并且您可以随时修改英雄的装备和不同的能力。
也许游戏的唯一问题是存在微交易，也称为“应用内购买”。从长远来看，我们强烈希望这不会破坏游戏体验（有人记得(gameplay experience)Android上的Dungeon Keeper吗？）并且只会提供额外内容而不是强制性的。我们真的很期待看到 EA 推出一款完全没有各种应用内支付的出色游戏，但仍然是一款优质产品(quality product)。你知道，只是为了它。但在那之前，拿出你的光剑，再次拯救银河系吧！
Free Android game of the month - Reviewing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Are you ready to continue the epic saga? Do you feel the force wіthin you? After 32 years, the wait is finally over: the Forсe is finally awakening and we can dive into another episоde of possibly the best ѕtory ever written. And our levels of midichlorіans rise even higher knowing that we have more to enjoy than the new Star Wаrs movie. EA just released Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes for Android, ѕo you can hаve your daily dоse of masterful Sci-Fi right before оr after going to the cinema. And it's a pretty good game for Android, so let's sеe what it has tо offer for fаns and casual gamers alike:
Come, join the dark side!
Calm down now, young padawan, there is much to learn before you can see if there truly are cookies on the other side: first you should at least know what is this all about. Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is a classical turn-based battle game with RPG-style combat, something like the battles in most Japanese role-playing games, like the Final Fantasy series. The goal of the game is to collect heroes from both the light and the dark side of the force and progress through a series of battles collecting many kinds of rewards, upgrading your heroes and unlocking new features along the way.
The whole game is set up like a big holotable tournament: according to Wookieepedia , a holotable is "an entertainment and communication device used to play virtual games, watch things, or to establish communication with others beings" in the Star Wars universe. In our case it is used to play these battles against enemies in well-known locations from the saga.
When you first launch the game, you will be greeted by a tutorial that guides you through the first steps of the game and shows you its main features. This makes things a bit simpler, as there is lots to discover. You will see that, at first, you can only play Light Side Battles , where you can set up a team of Light Side characters to defeat teams made of characters from the Dark Side. These battles are against the AI, but once you reach player level 8, you unlock the Squad Arena , the first place where you can match up against human opponents and their teams.
Collect and conquer
When going to battle you always need to set up a team of maximum six characters, and this requires a great deal of strategic skills. All characters have their specific strengths and weaknesses, special abilities and upgrades, so a lot depends on your team setup. Once in battle, the characters take turns to attack: each character has a basic attack and one or more special abilities: these special abilities can be used only once in a couple of turns. The goal of each battle is, of course, to destroy all enemy characters while at least one of your own survives.
If you win a battle, you get a series of rewards, which can be used to make your characters even stronger. You can get training droids that can be used to increase the characters' levels, making them more powerful. Gear is also important: by assigning items to the characters' gear slots you can increase their stats, and once you fill all their slots, you can upgrade their gear level - do this a couple of times and the character gains a new ability.
You can also find character shards: these are specific for each character and if you find a full set, you can unlock a new character. Or you can upgrade the star count of a character you already own - the more stars it has, the stronger it is. There are also four kinds of resources you can collect: crystals (used for purchasing Data Cards , Energy refreshes, Shipments items and to reset cooldown timers), credits (required to upgrade character's level, abilities and star count), energy (required to fight battles - it refreshes by one point in 6 minutes) and sim tickets (used to instantly complete again battles previously completed with a perfect score and gain new rewards).
The master of cards
In the Data Cards section you can purchase two different kinds of cards (or packs of them): Chromium and Bronzium. These, when bought, randomly drop characters, character shards, gear or credits. Once every 20 minutes you can get a Bronzium card for free, but the more powerful Chromium cards can only be bought for crystals.
And this is where we get to the most problematic part of the game: crystals are really hard to come by and it takes a long time to obtain a large amount of them. But, of course, you can buy packs of them for real money. In the early stages of the game this is not a real issue, as you are full of energy. However, later on the game becomes time-limited, as energy regenerates slowly and you won't have many crystals to buy energy refreshes. We can only hope that EA made a fair game and things balance out reasonably well in the long run, meaning that you won't be obliged to spend money to have fun with the game.
Besides cards, you can also buy Shipment items : these are character shards, training droids and different kinds of gear - if you need something badly, you might get it here instead of fighting battles in the hope of stumbling upon it. Shipments are locked in the beginning, as many other parts: for example, Squad Arena , where you can fight against human opponents, unlocks at level 8, but Events unlock at level 52, so it takes quite a while to experience every aspect of the game.
Since this is a Star Wars game, we have to mention the features related to this universe. Fortunately, the developer, EA had no problem obtaining the rights, so everything is really authentic: you can collect and fight with the well-known heroes and villains from the movies and visit scenes you have only seen on the big screen. The music, the graphics, the sounds and the characters are all familiar and well-designed. The game offers a real challenge, and not only in length: the battles get harder and harder, and if that's not enough, you can replay every one of them in a special hard mode, where you can earn special character shards.
Download: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes.
Verdict
2015 is a great year for Star Wars fans: the saga returns with a long-awaited seventh episode, while gamers got a good fighting game for our Android tablets and smartphones, that can take a hell of a lot of our time. Even exploring the main features takes half an hour. What EA managed to do with Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is to create a nice blend of card collecting, RPG and action-packed fighting, all enveloped in a visually appealing package.
Being the software giant it is, Electronic Arts will probably keep pumping new content in the game, so we can safely say that we won't get bored by it for a long time. Its replay value is huge, as you can take a couple of battles anytime and you can always tinker with the gear and different abilities of your heroes.
Maybe the only problem of the game is the presence of microtransactions, also known as "in-app purchases". We strongly hope that this won't destroy the gameplay experience in the long-run (anyone remember Dungeon Keeper on Android?) and will only provide extras instead of being mandatory. We are really looking forward to seeing a great game from EA that is completely free of all kinds of in-app payments, but still being a quality product. You know, just for the heck of it. But until then, take out your lightsabers and go save the galaxy once more!
