There's so much to explore in this game and it keeps you playing longer and longer. The battles are in real-time and vary from easy-peasy to very challenging. The exploration needs a bit of a plan beforehand how you establish your crew. The graphics are smooth and the dialogues awesome. All in all a really good game ... that repeats itself in some points. That's the one star minus. If you have seen a very funny dialogue, it will come back exactly the same way. Small variation if rng hits you or not ;) I would strongly recommend that for every space game and RTS fan.
First of all: the game had enough good moments to keep me playing. I played it the first time, since I missed it back in the days. The Story was okay, not overwhelming, missing a lot to the end and gets rushed, [SPOILER] ending with a very intenseless fight against the archdemon [/SPOILER]. BUT, the worst of all was that the game keeps crashing regardless where you are or what you do. I had like 30 crashes through the game, highlighting in a crash before the final cinematic. On top of that where some serious graphics bugs: people's clothes flicker, entire interiors went black, blood puddles become a red square and so on. That's not what I call a "Ultimate Edition". The game gave me a headache, ending in my decision not to play Awakening, because it's technically unbearable. Back to the game itself, there was just one single scene, where my actions in the game had (maybe) an influence. Other than different dialogues, the game plays the same and the outcome still is the same. It doesn't really matter if some side character dies or you just screw up, because... hm... you can't really screw up. Maybe it's just me, but I would like to have consequences.
