Well to add to this, isn't most space combat seen in the movies as far as capitol ships are concerned done with the ships more or less firing broadside after broadside into each other? In ROTS and ROTJ the capitol ships are more or less at the same 'altitude' duking it out with some higher or lower than others but not significantly so. Capitol ship combat in star wars can be compared to world war II naval battles. You have aircraft attacking each other while they are also trying to make runs on the capitol ships. While this is happening you have the main ships continuing to move in at each other in order to attack and bring maximum weapons to bear on a single target. The first half can mostly be compared to most naval air battles while the second could be compared to the hunts for the German Battleships and Battlecruisers in world war II or like the battle of Surigao Strait during the Philippine Campaign in 1944.
The main problem is that Stormtroopers are drones. They seem to be incappable of exercising any initiative and seem to mainly rely on orders from on high. Rebel troops from what little is seen seem to exercise some initiative although this seems to mostly be seen among rebel pilots.
EA should burn in hell for the rest of eternity, I've felt this way since Westwood went bye-bye and was reinforced when they made Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield:2.
Episode II starts less than 25 years before the Battle of Yavin and this technology was probably in late protype stages during Episode III epsecially since we only saw one ship actually use it. It would make more sense if this were a new secret weapon of some sort, wouldn't it?