WoW.

I suppose deep down we knew that Empire at War would have expansions, but I guess we never really thought about it too hard. Well the first expansion has been announced and “Forces of Corruption” sounds like it will add a whole ton of fun to an already outstanding game.

Here’s the skinny at gamespot, and be sure not to miss the video. It shows a couple of the new Super Star Destroyer class ships in action. One of which looks to be the weapon of the new faction.

Heres a snippet from the Gamespot Article:

There’s so much to tell you about the expansion that it’s difficult to know where to start, so we’ll kick off by throwing a few numbers at you and go from there: New factions? 1. All-new units in new faction? 40. New planets? 13. Number of Executor-class starships we saw in action? 1. Number of players who can skirmish simultaneously with expansion pack content? 3. Seeing Yoda kill dozens of stormtroopers with his berserker lightsaber attack? Priceless.

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Staying on the planet surface for the moment, we got to see the underground forces unleashing one of the new orbital bombardments that will be available to all factions, as long as they have a capital ship orbiting the planet in question. When activating the bombardment, you’ll get to place a gigantic crosshair on your target, and you’ll then see all of your forces retreating from the surface before it hits. The bombardment that we saw comprised two projectiles–an EMP to knock out the Imperial base’s shield and defenses, and then a plasma blast that essentially killed everything on the planet. How often you’ll get to use this incredibly powerful weapon remains to be seen, but we doubt that it’ll be very often.