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Originally Posted by worth
Yeah, it's just like the Civ games. No campaign with storyline, but you can play against the computer like in Civ. I didn't hear anyone saying Civ 4 wasn't a great game because it lacked a campaign.
If you play 1v1 on a small map you can be finished in a couple of hours.
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1 vs 1. Smallest Map.
Couple of hours.
Civ IV was much more complex, this game is basically the same every step of the way. Go from planet to planet and capture it. It's basically capturing points in an RTS. You can't even maneuver to any effect on the Y axis so it's not really 3D. You also can't fly around and hit from behind since the entire game is predicated on only being able to use the hyperspace lanes for travel. Since there's only 1 or 2 straight lines in and out of any system, it's basically exactly what you see on the system map. A bunch of balls with lines between them. You just defend those choke points as you move up and then it's basically a battle of attrition.
The scale is enourmous, it's really like war...but it's more WWI creeping forward your front line very very slowly as you move from planet to planet and shore up defenses and eat up more territory.
To be fair, I haven't been able to try much multiplayer, my friends won't play it because they didn't like it and playing online, I don't have the time to spend playing it all in one go. You sit at your computer for hours and hours doing not much of anything but I'm sure it would be exciting and fun over a LAN with a few buddies if you can arrange that.
Maybe my expectations were too high. I was expecting a new Homeworld with the graphics of X3 Reunion. This game would be fine if it were priced at $9.95 or $19.95 on direct download or Steam, etc. That's the catagory of gaming it fits into in my opinion. A $44.95 game it is not.