I can see what people are talking about in the positive reviews of this game but, for me, the problems are much too major. If there is a battle you have the option of hitting "auto" and it's done. So why bother doing the battles "manually"? When you do there is the wait-time for the battle to load - which becomes very tedious. Also, it is not clear if one can make much of a difference and most battles take almost 30 seconds to really get going. The whole thing just started to feel tedious as though I was doing work rather than having fun. So instead of hitting "end of turn" I shut the thing down and banished it from my hard-drive.
The problem with Sword of the Stars aren’t the funky graphics, or the poor planet management, or the cheesy tech tree. It's the horrible combat. The combat is real time, had it been turn based, (Like in Space Em... Read Full Review
If you are like me, when you first play this game, you might be a little put off. Some of the voice acting is laughable (like the human scientist), the graphics aren't exactly cutting edge, and planetary management is ve... Read Full Review
