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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Vastly overrated - I find it boring
All the professional review sites are ecstatic over this title. I have no idea why.

You have a map with a small number of planets (14 on a small map, 20 on a medium map, 50 on a large map--I don't see how anyone would have time to play this on a large map), and it takes really LONG time for ships to move between these planets.

The thing you need to know about this game is that it's slow. There's nothing to do besides watch your ships fight it out. Battles can take forever. There's little strategy involved. Once you've figured out the best technology to research and best ships to build, there's really not much planning or thinking required.

The technology research is very generic. You research stuff that gives you more powerful shields and armor, more powerful weapons, or unlock new ships. On the civilian side, the key technologies to research are unlocking trading ports (because you need to build them to get more money), and early warning radar so you know when enemy ships are coming. Other than that, there are no key technologies that alter the game. It's not like Civilization where you really feel the pain of falling behind in research.

The AI isn't very bright. It will harass your planets if you put it on "agressor" mode, but it's really bad at going in for the kill and actually taking you over. On "hard" level, the computer players have massively more ships than you do, but are too stupid to use them effectively.

Thinking of playing it online against humans? The SOSE forums are full of complaints about problems playing the game online, and even if they fix those problems in a future service pack, do you really want to play a game online where it takes an entire day to finish one game? Who has time for that?

If you want good strategy, play Civ 4 instead. If you are unemployed and want to spend hours mindlessly in front of a computer game, then play one of those big online games like World of Warcraft ot Final Fantasy XI.

Rating:

- Pretty, but BORING
The battles look great when you zoom in, but you really can't fight that way because you miss too much, like more enemies joining the fight. You basically spend all your time fighting off pirate attacks (when in history have pirates ever messed with fleets of warships?). There are three different factions you can play, but the differences in ships are pretty minor and they play about the same. If there is a "tactical" aspect of fighting these ships, I missed it - seems like you just get them close and watch them slug it out.

The "real time strategy" thing is not really a positive thing in my mind. You end up scurrying around trying to sneak in the research and building in between more pirate attacks. Just makes the game feel more harried. After a week or so, I stopped playing this - I would not recommend it.

Rating:

- Massive scope and scale.
Great game with a massive scope. A flick of the finger zooms in to a single world. Two flicks in the other direction zoom you out to reveal several star systems.

Sound and graphics are both good. Graphics actually surpass expectations for such a wicked scale.

A few solid control changes would really improve the overall gameplay. But that is just an issue of stream lining.

Rating:

- Pretty big and deep (that's what she said)
This game is a lot of fun. My friend and I played on a small map for our first time and the game could have lasted about 2 days even after I knew I was going to lose. Its a very deep game, but a lot of fun if you like RTS's and science fiction. There is also a pretty large single player story campaign that is a lot of fun.

Rating:

- Awesome
I was skeptical about the quality of this game when i first heard about it. After 2 weeks of game play I have to say that this game is truely one of the best strategy games i have seen in a long time. The only reason that I gave it 4 stars overall is because I had a very tough time enabling multiplayer in the Ironclad Online gaming area.


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