[Hack&Lube]

There isn't much to the game. It's pretty barren of features. There is absolutely no single player campaign. There isn't even a story. Single player is just deathmatch against a few computers.

In the end, it boils down to move your fleet from planet to planet and try to dominate the system. The game also moves at an aggravating pace so you end up sitting there watching it do stuff for hours. It has nothing on Homeworld.

The computer AI is pretty bad, it's basically move your ships to a planet and let them shoot each other. Play follow the leader as he jumps in and out of systems. The diplomacy system is totally broken. You can shower your allies or enemies with a fortune in credits and crystal but they will still turn instantly hostile against you if you don't do one of their silly "attack my enemy for me" missions for them.

It's great for multiplayer but not much else, in any case you'll be sitting around for hours because of slow build, slow research, slow movement, slow battles, etc. It's a very large scale game but simplistic and repetative.

If you like playing online, playing with friends, sitting at your computer for hours waiting for ships to build or slowly move to another system...sure it's an alright game. But if you are playing by yourself, there's nothing there at all. Lack of single player or any story at all ruins this game IMHO but I guess that wasn't the developers objective.