Galactic Civilizations 2

[BomberBill]

Dudes, this new game is getting rave reviews: 9 at Gamespot etc..

I thoroughly enjoy complex strategy games and its been quite a while since I sat down to my last real challenge.

Anybody got any independent reviews they want to share before I shell out top dollar for this so-called gem of a game?

 

[choknuti]

Don't have time to do a full review here but to make it short and sweet here are a few points:

1. This is what MOO3 should have been.
2. Building ships is so much fun it’s almost a game in a game
3. Fantastic AI (sometime it feels like you’re playing against real players )
4. Good graphics
5. Great distribution model & no anti-piracy gimmicks (they only work against those who buy the games and not the pirates)
6. Played yesterday till 3:30 a.m.


Only bad point (IMHO) is the lack of user control in ship to ship combat (no tactical combat)

 

[llama_man]

Looks good, doesn't it? I loved Master of Orion 2 and this looks like a game finally to match it (MOO3 was a bit pants).

There's already a thread discussing it:

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/games/Galactic-Civilisations-II-ftopict95436.html

 

[BigMac]

Thanks Llama_man, was about to post the same. Btw, I think this is the proper forum for the topic but I'm not going to police that kind of thing. If a topic starter wants his topic moved to another forum, drop me a PM and I'l look into it.

If someone else wants to see it moved, take it up with the topic starter first and see if you can reach agreement before bothering me about it.

If it is obviously misplaced (talking about a console game in here) I'll fix it if I see it.

 

[BomberBill]

Good points. Thanks.

 

[BomberBill]

I thought I had seen one in passing but could not find it and thought it had been moved etc., thus I created this thread.

Thanks for the link.