Sword of the stars FTW!
i my self love everything with space and the idea of flying thru it in a space ship...
so for me it was a reasonable success at the beginning but the more i played and the more technologies i discovered and customized my vessels with every weapon of choice it became a large succes with my especially the customizing bit and the challenge of naming every class different instead of the very "original"names armor, tanker etc. i always seem to think up something new which is fun and fills up the play time :).
Then there is the command vessels that allow u to chose where your ships start in the battle front aft left right u get the point ... in the end up to 66 points which is 54 for 3 DN and 2 CR which is 12 total to make 66 or about 30 DE's i think i never am the swarm type my self so fairly large fleets sometimes but i like big and dmg... :D that way i could annihilate all enemy resistance and destroy whole worlds to the end of conquering the galaxy which in turn is everyones secret deepest desire ^^ (well at least mine and well my friends)
so i rate this a game for lots of single player fun for the reason the ai always uses different ship load out which makes it hard to adapt to his style for he doesnt really have one.. which is sometimes annoying...
at about the end of your research u gain the ability to enhance all your income and industrial output thru ai efficiently which sounds nice but it has a chance of backfiring which creates a new enemies with all your technology and the wits of well i dunno who but he is damn witty... the ai rebellion isnt fun especially when all your force are at the front and not in the back where the rebellion begins... so if u retreat to save aft city u lose forward and if u spread to thin u lose all so mostly u come into a pincer situation which is fun but most of all hard to get out off seeing ai's are efficient >.< so large fleets emerge at your footstep and u take that one down with some casualties but when repairing he comes back and again and again etc till u are totally singled out or u ofcourse have enough planet to create a counter attack :D
or create ai Virus which helps a load around 10 ships per battle go down.
but to make a end of this long story of SotS, THIS GAME ROCKS!!!
Sincerely