Lack of ship building variety and simplified combat system, turn offs for me.

User Rating: 6.1 | Sword of the Stars PC
By the_razorback | Review Date:
I'll start off by saying something nice...I found the interface easy to use, the graphics are nice and modern, the game play is OK. I'm a creative guy, I like to be able to do things my way... what put me off was the total lack of ship variety in Sword of the Stars . Not being able to build ships the way I envision simply turned me off to Sword of the Stars.

The combat system in Sword of the Starsis extremely simplified, requiring no strategy at all. This too is a turn off.

I'd rather play Galactic Civilizations II than Sword of the Stars, GalCivII is a much better 4x game. In particular now with the new 'Dark Avatar' addition.

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