just wanted to share my few major concerns with the game:
1: ship combat is just as one-dimensional as the ground combat, no tactics what-so-ever, just a ship design vs ship design movie shoot-out with no human input! The ship tactics of Master of Orion, ship facing, movement, launching fighters ect. was FAR superior. That was my fav part of the game and SADLY lacking here. The only way the game could ever challenge M of O is if they re-do ship combat to include human tactics.
2: The 2d game map is quite lacking, does not give a real "feel" of the infinate size or depth of space. Its just a game, yaya, a game I paid $40 bucks for, so I can complain.....;o)
3: tech tree really needs to show some info for informed decision making, way under developed.....
Over-all should be an 7(maybe 8) out of 10, dont see why all the game reviewers are being so un-critical....maybe they were paid off?