I am having troubles with this game crashing randomnly.  I really do enjoy it, although it's a bit long-winded and doesn't necessarily need to be.

Nothing like having to set your shaders to 1.1 with a tweak tool and rebooting after it crashes so you can play for a significant period of time.  It makes the game hard to get into and stick with - either I have several hours to play, or I play something else, and eventually it crashes, and I just quit til the next session. I have to remember to save often.

Battles and buying upgrades are the most entertaining part of the game, the creature is a sideshow now, like having a Titan or hero.  The creature micro maintenance is gone from the 1st game, but it's a bit too shallow now and even by chaing the .cfg file to make your creature twice it's size, they are still so much smaller than the 1st game...and grow very quickly.

That said the creatures are actually very useful as advanced gatherers/builders and soldiers depending on what upgrades you buy for him.

Lack of ore to build and tribute (currency for upgrades) drags the game out much too long and technical issues mar the early version terribly.

Despite these issues the game can be a lot of fun and I am anxiously awaiting a patch that actually corrects some of these problems hopefully.