Sins of a solar empire. Simply gold.
I got addicted alright but luckily my friends and loved ones still hang around. Awesome graphics and great gameplay, what more could anyone want from an game?
Short loading times suprised me completely, geme is so epic sized that I tought that loading would take half an day.
Factions are cool and well balanced, altough little alike. Everyone should be able to find their favorite from these (mine is Vasari.)
Looking at the screenshots I tought that my hardware would need an update, but to my suprise game goes pretty smoothly on my low performance pc (I can hardly play crysis.)
After playing sins it was hard to get myself playing anything else, no other strategy game gave me that epic feeling and tools for sneaky long term planning and backstabbing. Anyone who has ever liked strategy games should try this out.