Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

40 to 100 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Hard to describe"

First of all, I have chosen Classification as Hard to describe because trus me. This isn't what you might think of : Boring Turnbased, you have to wait for a long time to get things moving on..... This game is nothing like that. If Civilization IV gave you the great experience in ruling a tribe for whole world, this game will give you the whole universe to do so. The scale of this game is really huge that you can barery seen in any other Strategy games. As a leader of one of the tribe from over 10 tribes in the galacy, you will start to discover what wait for you in that space.
There are many things for you to discover. I think for you to visualize it easier, I will say we start as Alan Bradley - leader of human. At the start of the game, we just have one planet Earth.After 6 turns or so, you completed building your own Colony ship to have some citizen move to Mar - Another and only inhabitable planet from Solar system and then after that, you will start a bunch of stuff like negotiate with other spices about trade agreement, gift(Bunch of gold) or you can even buy, sell technologies you have discovered with your fine scientist work on labs.
And then, there will be the time war comes. You will have bunch of normal ship design to choose from but if you want something unique, the game will support you with this. It will give you everything to make your own ship. I personally did make some Star Wars based ship like X wings or Star Destroyer and it turns out to be pretty cool. If you want to design a great ship for your own, this is your game.
Finally as usual, the modding community of this game is really big that it can actually fight with games such as Mount&Blade. It will have new Spcies, new campaigns(Even the base campaign is great), new model of ships...... The modding of this game is huge and even if your bored with normal game, you can always try the mod.


Anyway, that was just a very brief review of this game. I can't just compress an encylopedia of galactic civilization into just one review. You have to play and then feel it. It isn't like any game you tried before........... trust me. :P