This game is not for the casual player and requires you to reach skill levels in order to unlock content within the game. It has a full-fledge campaign and if that is what you are after its worth it but if you are looking for a more laid back skirmish mode you may want to reconsider. Replaying the same map or maps depending on how much you unlock can become repetitive with you having to reach the next tier in order to get more variety in the content. Its a challenge but after hours getting one or another map unlocked and then stuck on another the game feels locked away. It is fine to have milestones but making it the variety of the map was not the best option for this type of game.
The game as it stands is not a bad game. The planets appear large and different and while some are going to look similar you can only ask for so much when aspects of the game are generated randomly and only have so many resources to pull from so that is in the eye of the beholder who needs something new all the time or can appreciate the uniqueness of what is there similar to minecraft. There is a large focus on crafting, building and gathering resources and while every thing appears to look great but even with the lowest settings the game chugs very roughly and things do pop in as many other reviews have said and it appears some can not even get the game to launch or it randomly freezes. I never ran into these problems but the game is near unplayable from crawl of the pace as articles struggle to manifest into the world. I think when the game is patched a little more you will enjoy the world and what it has to offer. If the description of the game got you wanting to play it then you wont miss any thing when you do but be warned that you have to have a top of the line computer to play it in its current state. Give it a week or two and see if things clear up before paying the hefty price.
