The first thing I do is disable all animations, these types of games have lots of details and if you are going to play a game with lots of details it is nice to be able to take in the information being presented. Well I loaded the game, and a huge space fleet started flying towards me, ok for an in store demo that would be pretty cool, though I then clicked on options to disable optional animations and the whole time I am distracted by the flying fleet around the option window, disabled everything I could find and restarted the game. Launched it and fleet is still there, ok let me start so I decided to play a custom race and the fleet is still there, flying around all the fun information that will let me select the perfect fleet. I finally give up, select one of the standard races (not sure which one it was just trying to stop the animation/movie), then I click on research and there are no 2 different animated elements on the screen! I just bought this game and I am about to uninstall it, it is completely unplayable. Maybe if this was an arcade game that would be fun, though this is a detailed strategy game with a lot of moving parts, it does not need eye candy, it needs clearer screens with well organized information and controls. I am so glad I have GC1, a much, much better game, well actually it is a playable game.
I have tried the tutorial three times now. I follow the instructions and am unable to build the metro line. I had to restart because when I was trying to build the bus route I accidentally bought a bus before it asked me to. The reason I am not going to try again is it is very difficult to read the tutorial while there is so much animation int he background. I have dug through the settings and there is no way to minimize or disable the animations. I will give this game a try again if I learn that you can turn off the animation.
