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If for some reason, the citizens on planet 'Ship12' are getting seditious, building a hospital or stadium should placate them. Now matter how happy your citizens are, the time soon comes when alien races are at your borders and a forceful expansion is your only survival. Posting spy satellites to gauge enemy strengths and sending secret agents to cause civil unrest will help to give you an advantage, but the only way to expand quickly is to build a fleet and invade.

Move your mass of ships to engage the enemy's, and the view scoops round to show the ships facing off, the game paused for you to plan your attack. Though not as visually attractive or as tactically fully featured as Homeworld , IGZs 3D battles are more the icing rather than the cake itself. Though you can choose formations for your ships, fire off special weapons or set your fighters to defend or attack, space battles are decided purely on firepower and strength of numbers.

If you upgrade your ships with the latest weapons and send them in en masse - you're virtually unbeatable. With defenses neutralised, the planet's ripe for a surface attack. Here tanks are landed outside the enemy city perimeter, the aim to destroy any defensive units. Again, planetary battles are nowhere near as gripping as those you'd find in say WarZone , but then again, IG2 has so much else to offer.

The battles are usually over in a few minutes, then it's back to the cycle of crushing civil disobedience, building up production, research and finding more planets to add to your empire. It's difficult to fault Imperium Galactica II. Using Master of Orion and the original Imperium Galactica as blueprints, adding a full-3D interface must have taken some doing.

Glitches are few and far between and it's hard to fault the alien intelligence. The only criticism you can levy at the game is that after a while, the 3D views kinda get in the way. Before long, you'll use the top-down view for most things, especially the Starmap and on planet surfaces where units easily get lost. Being both beautifully presented and instantly engaging IG2 is a game that expands boundaries that most developers are content to stay behind.

Colony building in may lack the detail of Sim City and combat the edge of Homeworld, but as a game that combines the two styles of games with relative ease, together with a visual story neither possess, IG2 is something of a triumph.

In short, IG2 is an excellent game, easy to learn with hours of enjoyment to be had. Which is as high an endorsement as you can get. In the 26th century, genetic engineering has come so far that among the many research goals was the creation of a super-human race.

When the ruling Military powers saw the success of the research they stepped in and turned the resulting super-humans into the finest killing machines known on this world. A lead scientist rebelled and sent various research information randomly throughout space.

As the Human Race in the game, you must try to recapture this information which is held in four crystals. As the hostile Kra'hen race, you defend your crystal and try to kick the living snot out of the rest of the galaxy.

And as the political Shinari, you must be suave and cunning. You can also build, manage and defend colonies on 80 different planets. The game really does start off with a bang because of the three awesome opening movies, then it puts you in the main screen of the game which is called the Star Map. There are eight other screens you use in the game -- the colony map, which lets you look at the progress of the planet you are colonizing; the research map; the design map which lets you design ships and weapons; and then there is the diplomatic screen.

The last three screens contain your trade information and message screens. You will definitely get the feel of running a huge empire, as there is so much to do with so little time. At times I found myself feeling overwhelmed because of all the screens, but hey, who said that running a galaxy is easy!

One thing that helps out in a big way is the tutorial, due to the large amount you have to learn -- once you get the hang of the interface, though, you will find it really easy to get into the game. Every aspect will really make you feel as though you are controlling a vast galaxy, but at the same time you can go down to the planets and see the small details such as how individual each planet is, particularly in regard to the environment.

Another cool section is on the design screen where you get to tweak guns and spacecraft -- they have been broken down to 3D wire frames. Very Schweeeet! The main screen Star Map gives you that "In a galaxy far, far away" feel as you gaze at small planets and stars. Overall, I have to say the graphics are very pleasing to the eye. I found that I was constantly changing the volume up and down, especially during the talking sequences.

There were other times when I found the audio to be a bit muddy. But once I got into the game I found that I really only paid attention to the speaking parts anyway because I was concentrating so hard on making my empire run.

The in-game tutorial has got to be one of the best I have ever seen. If you are not satisfied with a ship's design, you can modify it by attaching different types of weaponry or equipment that you have researched by then. Once you have upgraded a model, you can upgrade all ships of that type, provided you have the financial means to support it. Apart from combat vessels you can also build terraforming and colonization ships. Once it comes to a clash between two opposing fleets, the game will transform into a real-time strategy.

There are two types of ships - capital ships and fighters. You can only control the capital ships, whilst the fighters act on their own accord. Before the battle commences you are allowed to choose one of the strategies that you can use, which basically means deploy your ships in a certain formation. This segment of the game looks a bit like Homeworld, but it is not as good. Ground battles occurring when someone attacks a planet have been made to look like real-time strategies too, but they are far behind any contemporary RTS.

Their goal is the destruction of all enemy structures and gaining complete control aver the planet. There are few units available, so it just comes down to several types of tanks offensive and some more tanks and towers defensive units. In the course of the game you will be assigned various quests. Someone may sell you information on an ancient civilization far more advanced than your own, and finding it would raise your science and technology level.

If you happen to wage war against pirates a highly expensive operation , you will be able to end it by marrying the shrewish daughter of the pirate leader. These quests make the game much more dynamic. It will also require you to decide upon your moves most cautiously, for if you loose paste your enemies will overrun you. The quality of graphics varies from situation to situation. The main screen where you spend the most time and the static screens for diplomacy, espionage and trade look great, but the battle screens both in space and on ground don't look that good.

The authors probably disregarded graphics as a less important factor in a game like this and diverted their attention towards the main engine. The cut-scenes are one of the best I have ever seen. The graphics are altogether far from being perfect, but I believe that they will satisfy anyone who likes to play this type of a game. As for the people who like their screens to use all the available colors of a 32bit palette at once and all the time, and enjoy having at least FPS even though their eyes are not capable of catching more than 30 - they should just stick to FPS.

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