I was so excited to hear they were gonig to make a game similar to rebellion. I ve been addicted to RTS games forever now. When empire at war came out i played it for a few horus and began to realize how repetative everything is. There are just not enough unit types to give any sort of variety. The space battles are so small that it's pointless to move the ships since any ship can fire almost across the map. Land battles are just retarded, so small again, with reinfocments points. While the graphics are nice the game jsut looses its fun incredibly fast since there isnt enough too do. The deathstar is pointless since it cannot fire at ships, and the timeline ends before a new hope so the units are minisucle. The other dumb thing is the unit cap, you can only have 25 population per space battle, and th worth thing is, you dont get too choose the ships in your fleet too start. Once a ship gets blown up you can , call in another ship. Pointless, all it does is keep frame rates high and drag the battle on. If one side is loosing and they try to jump some ships it, they'll get destroyed because of the disafvantage. If a player surrnders during space combat the starbase self dis in 10 seconds blowing up an nearby ships, which sucks because its so hard t oget them out before that. The AI is dumb, pathfinding is terrible, Multiplayer sucks, since its imposible to connect, there are alot of bugs and errors that LA wont fix, instead they add new content.This game is so easy a child could play it, anyone like me who was expecting amazing battles, and deep gameplay stay away you're just setting up to be dissapointed. The Galactic conquest mode is neat but there are only set maps and you cannot decide much Game felt very rushed, hte campaign was so smal it was a waste to even play it. So pissed at this game for lack of depth, if you want a real empire managment game go pick up Rome:Total War. As for this, it will remain paper weight until mods come out to fix the lack of units.
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