Or, if you’re not expecting much, it’s exactly as good as you think.

(This isn’t an in depth review of the game and you’d do better looking elsewhere for that.  This is just a personal grump about it.)

I had a 14-day trial key for the Star Wars online experience from another SW game I had. The key had been unused since I bought that other game as I’m already playing Guild Wars and that nicely fills my online gaming needs.  That, and there’s no monthly fee to GW which cheers me up no end.

But last week I had some free time and I decided to fire up SW: Galaxies and give it a go.
And after faffing around with the account setup on Sony’s website (which seemed to take an age), I finally got the client downloaded and everything setup.

Once I was in the character setup I reviewed the choices, all the ususal Star Wars fare, and settled on Jedi.  A no-brainer really.

I then spent the rest of that afternoon idly hacking at bad guys and doing the usual quest/experience point gathering that you’d expect from any good role-playing game.  And that’s all I’ve done with it.

It’s an alright game but despite its Star Wars link, it doesn’t really seem to have anything really exceptional going for it.  The player experience was, well… blah.  After playing Star Wars RPGs like Knights Of The Old Republic (and Cheezy, I’d like it back please) you can’t help but get the impression that they could have tried harder.

BigAl