[ZylonBane]

http://www.galciv2.com/forums.aspx?forumid=161&aid=99234&c=1

It's a space game that uses Bank Gothic, therefore it will rock!

[an0n]

Sans Serif, mother****er!

* an0n busts some System Font periods into ZB

[ZylonBane]

Don't make me whip some Microgramma Bold on your ass.

[TrashMan]

I played GC1.

Research tree is totaly redicolous (I mean you're a space-faring race and you have to REASEARCH diplomacy before you can make any treaties)

Combats are automatic with no imput from the player, nor can he actually desing ship... and there are some space shrimps flying around from the begining of the game that can apparenaly destroy a whole fleet singlehandendly..which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't a advanced, experienced fleet.

It has its good points (like ground invasions) but who the hell playtested that thing??


EDIT - well, it looks like they are learning from their mistakes. Maby this sequel has potential after all

[Sandwich]

I'm gonna open up a can of Impact on yo' hiney!

[SadisticSid]

The strategic side looks fun - but the lack of interaction and interest in the ship battles sucks ass. I mean all this was done in MOO2 - still an amazing game - and that's almost ten years old now. Instead of implementing lighting patterns for the dark sides of planets based on population size, why couldn't they make the space combat more interesting?

[TrashMan]

http://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=98513

holy hell...read this!

NOTE - check the comments on at the bottom - more info and screenies are in them.

[MrBig101]

I liked the demo of the 1st one, so I might consider getting this one...

[aldo_14]

NB: this is released now, BTW.  Don't think it's out in europe till 3/3, though, and it's cheaper from play.com than to get the digital download.

[TrashMan]

I'm gonna get it this friday...don't ask how 

[aldo_14]

I'm gonna get it this friday...don't ask how 

Shops?

[TrashMan]

Welll....something of a sort...yeah....

[SLICK2K6]

http://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=98513

..."The Clubber" "The Banger"

[Flipside]

Hehehe being good at games isn't, alas, synonymous with being able to make up good names for ship classes

[TrashMan]

Cut the man some slack...He's job was to program and test the Ai, not spend several minutes thinking up of a most appropriate name for each ship (like I do).

[MrBig101]

And hey, look on the bright side, you can create and customize your own ships easily, instead of using Preset ships.  That's something i've always wanted to do in any game. 

I'll defintely be getting this one.  After reading the journals, I am super amped for it.  This might even take the place of Civ 4 for a while...

[aldo_14]

Cut the man some slack...He's job was to program and test the Ai, not spend several minutes thinking up of a most appropriate name for each ship (like I do).

I don't think Flip was being entirely serious.....

[WMCoolmon]

I'm gonna get it this friday...don't ask how 

Hoping it'll fall out the back of a truck?

[aldo_14]

I'm gonna get it this friday...don't ask how 

Hoping it'll fall out the back of a truck?

Can DL it, though.  You can actually download the thing, start playing it, and still have a CD sent (for no extra cost it seems) through the website, but it seems US only and is, for me at least, actually more expensive than (eg) play.com.  I think it's released in the US, though, but maybe not europe.

[Windrunner]

is this a pure space dogfighting game or a strategi one?