Great space fight simulation.
Graphics - 9
It's good graphics for RTS game that revolves around building spaceships and destroying planets. The most enjoyable moment for me when playing this game is when I get to fight my huge armada with other player's armada, or shooting down planets. You can't deny graphic plays a large role when you are watching missiles, lasers, and huge bombs exploding everywhere as you rotate your cameras around to watch the fight.
Sounds - 8
Everything is good, except when playing single player, computer AI player telling me "You will pay for this" over and over again after not doing their request gets tiring and you'll eventually start ignoring their words. For me I wanted to go to war against them just because of those.
Gameplay - 9
Great gameplay. It gives exactly what you want for a fan of space simulation, or just RTS fan. Again problem for me occurred with diplomacy in single player, where there was no way to ally with one computer and stay neutral with other computer as they keep demanding me to kill the other computer if I want good relationship with them.
Tilt -
One thing that I didn't like was the option to make the whole game much faster or quick gameplay. It usually takes at least 3 hours to finish one game against 2 computers on fast mode. It takes forever to research all technologies even with fast research mode. If there was a option to make everything MUCH faster and allow MUCH faster gameplay, I would be very happy. However, it's incredibly addictive as you sit down on your computer for hours waiting for research to finish, or simply move your ships to another planet to watch the battle or bomb the planet.