Imperium Galactica 2 is a game that deserves 5 stars, it's an exemplar of the 4X genre with the different 'levels' of play (planetside micromanagement & battle, space battle, tech & economy) and has great atmosphere and interesting (though not epic) storylines/quests. Unfortunately as other reviewers have mentioned, GOG didn't procure the proper version. Rather, they appear to have some strange kind of port. Missing button-icons one can live with, but missing audio (speech) detracts greatly from the experience, and the time/speed hotkeys are absolutely essential and without them gameplay is much clunkier than it was 20 years ago... I have dug up my old CD-ROMs (there were 4) for this game, and with some trouble and tinkering it's still possible to get that to work on modern systems. So I'll be sticking to that for now, much though I'd have liked to support this game being on GOG and to have a version that works with no tinkering using an installer, etc. A pity, but if you truly want to experience this great game in its glory, give this version a miss.
