Imperium Galactica

Loved this game back in the 1990's and still love it today. Maximum kino.

I remember sitting in my Dad's office when I was like 8 playing this game for hours on end. I couldn't get enough and my computer at home didn't have a Pentium processor (which I think was a requirement). The graphics are going to be a bit dated, the storyline a bit linear (from what I remember and what I can judge based on how old I was at the time (8 yr old me didn't care)) but the game is infinitely enjoyable. Because of the more linear storyline I actually like this game better than Galactic Civilizations which has a very comparable gameplay style. Anyhow, highly recommend if you like 4X Space strategy games.

I think I'm more 3/5 stars on the actual game experience but it's an historically important game and it's 5 bucks. And I've gotten at least 30 hours of entertainment out of it already. Not sure about finishing it but it might be interesting enough. I do not regret the money spent but I think nostalgia may be skewing the reviews a bit hard on this one. Speaking as somebody who constantly heard good things about this game while discussing MOO with people in the '90s but could never find the silly thing (this was pre-Amazon), I have to say now that the two games really never should have been compared. It's more of an adventure game with 4x elements than a 4X game worthy of being compared to two of the best damn 4x games of all time. It has a somewhat interesting colony and tech development system under the hood but it has a lot of flaws that I have to admit surprisingly don't sink it. These are: * Space combat sucks - pathing-finding primarily * Ground combat is even worse * Lots of stupid what we once called "fmv" or "full motion video". Low res, uninteresting garbage depicting things like your character awkwardly walking to a shuttle with a briefcase or your wife telling you upsetting stories about your son who is too stupid to grasp the concept of scale models. * UI is a !@#$-show. I am a UI developer. !@#$. Show. The weird thing is that it's somehow greater than the sum of its flaws. I found reloading and trying to sort out a quicker way to repair the busted up planets you start out with to be pretty satisfying. I actually enjoyed the not-saddled with badly-translated-wife messages from people in the sector I was policing/reconstructing. And as you progress further, the colony/tech development options start to get more interesting (from not-super-interesing at first). I think it also actually succeeds at fusing the adventure aspect with the 4X stuff and I would definitely be surprised if this game didn't have a special place in the Halcyon 6 dev teams' hearts.

One of best strategies ever :)

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