Posted on: November 14, 2023

LemonTorque

Spiele: 195 Rezensionen: 2

Good game, with some frustrating flaws

The meat of the game, building, researching, exploring, is an enjoyable and compelling experience. I particularly like the 'remote exploring' system, which allows you to find hidden systems and resources quite deep into the game. Where the game falls short is with its combat. I don't know if it's based on Master of Orion (never played it), but the space battle system is incredibly clunky and ultimately unsatisfying in the early game, fiddling with rotation actions and weapon arcs and the seemingly non-existant AI. In the late game, battles simply come down to turn order, since there is no individual ship initiative. Whoever goes first can simply move up with every ship and decimate the opposition fleet, using engine or weapon overloading. Additionally, the combat 'Auto-resolve' feature is a joke, where a massively one-sided engagement can still result in ship losses (why is there no 'overrun' feature, like in Imperium Galactica 2?). If you care about inexplicable ship losses, you'll need to fight every battle yourself, which is a chore. Finally, ground combat is nothing but a percentage bar that begins based on relative attack strength, moves a couple of times, then reveals 'You won!' or 'You lost!'. I recommend closing your eyes to avoid the frustration of watching your 91% crumble to a crushing defeat... Oh and I would much rather autosaves be created at the *end* of a turn, rather than the start. And, although the developer has talked about introducing it for years, I'd be shocked to ever see modding support. So all in all, a very enjoyable game, but don't expect much enjoyment from the combat department. For comparison, it's a massive downgrade from Imperium Galactica 2 and I even find the simple combat system in Space Empires V more satisfying.

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Posted on: February 21, 2021

Lookda

Spiele: 414 Rezensionen: 53

Another failed 4xMoO clone due to bad AI

My daughter of 7 thinks the blue gremlins in robot suits are cute. In game, they are a brutal race lead by a dictatorship. Funny, but It also illustrates how IS-G cannot decide between being an easy going space sim or a hardcore strategy game. At least, my daughter could not get around the excel sheet like info the UI throws at you. Sadly, IS-G has more severe problems. Basic exploration is done by sending a scout. Detailed exploration is handled in a chess-like grid of the sky map and fixed turn durations. You can send a surveillance ship to reduce the duration. The opposite mechanic would have been much more enjoyable, e.g. scan the sky map and use a ship to find ancient ruins or He-3 in a gas giant. Expansion provides a bonus like +50% biological or a production increase (used for everything) equal to making an ultra-poor planet a poor planet, on ALL planets. Compare that to another option of 1 free surveillance ship and you start to understand that the game balance is a problem. But nothing beats the poor AI. I attacked the human homeworld and the AI decided to flee because it had been sitting on its hands for the last 200 turns. Invasion was no real option with only 2 invasion ships and no ground combat science at all. Instead I tried the raid option at 70%. It was successful in kidnapping the extremely strong military leader that had cost the AI 10 BC for the last 100 turns. I could recruit the leader and next round invade the planet with minimal losses. Ground combat is like a Windows progress bar where at any time it can reach 100% or fail. After reaching the AI’s last planet it finally stayed and fight. It even managed to kill a few of my ships, which left me to wonder if earlier fights would have actually ending my blockages and a bit of challenge? I thought that after the debacle of MoO3, 4x developers would be aware that a challenging (preferably no/little cheating) AI makes or breaks their game. Apparently, Praxis failed the first 4x-rookie test.

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Posted on: February 23, 2021

ryder_p_moses

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Spiele: 251 Rezensionen: 5

It's MOO2

It's Master of Orion 2, down to the tech tree being nearly word-for-word identical, minus some races, the semi-plotline underpinning MOO with Orion/Antarans, and some other minor flavor. An updated MOO2 that didn't require persuading all your buddies to pull some hacker nonsense to play multiplayer woulda been incredible... but this one's singleplayer only. Real shame.

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Posted on: July 5, 2021

eddieballgame

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Spiele: 306 Rezensionen: 7

Almost Perfect

No pc game is perfect, however; as 4X Space sims go ISG is as good as it gets. The developers are at the top of the heap per this genre & continue to improve an, already, wonderful & deep 4X experience. Surpasses MOO 2 as the standard to be compared to. imho

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Posted on: January 16, 2021

wolfman424

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Spiele: 179 Rezensionen: 22

I love it

This is like Masters of Orion, the first one, not the crappy sequels. When I was much younger I would play Masters of Orion day and night for years and never got bored, this game gives the same enjoyment.

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