Sinyan War Mod

Description
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http://www.gamefront.com/files/21062562/SWM.zip

This mod, by Ty294, is a full sides mod for the GCW sides in SWBF. Well, full-ish, since the Rebel sides seem to stay largely the same.

It\'s a decent enough sides mod, although I was almost immediately put off upon installation when the readme instructed me to back up the full _LVL_PC folder. That\'s more than 2 GB - and for a simple sides mod? That seems crazy.

The sides are based on a short blurb included in the readme, and since there\'s no story wrapper given in the game, they feel like they have no context. I see names given to the sides, but all I see when I get in-game is one set of Rebels fighting a slightly different set of Rebels. This presents a twofold problem - one, it doesn\'t really feel like Star Wars, but more importantly, and two, it\'s hard to tell who is who. Because the HUD in SWBF1 is so subdued and not as easily intuitive (at least to me) as SWBF2, I\'m basically working on visual cues to tell who I should and should not shoot. Those visual cues are sorely missing here.

The weapons are fine in here, although nothing really out-of-the ordinary. The Rebels\' Wookiee is replaced by a Bothan Spy who has a grappling hook and a disguise kit, which works all too well in this game. It\'s basically a cheat button. A few units have a gun that shoots very strange blaster bolts - strange in that the bolts travel incredibly slowly.

Anyway, there\'s certainly a lot of stuff in here, if the screenshots are any indication. I definitely didn\'t take the time to try it all, so feel free to give it a download, try it for yourself, and let the author know what you think. Enjoy!

-Mav