I stumbled across this game many years, while visiting a colleague of mine. He lend me the game and eventually gave it to me as a present because I was really excited about it. So excited... There are no words to explain. The story and campaign are well done, detailed diverse and just nice to play. But in my opinion, the true feature of this game is to play other races than Terran, Mantis as my favourite. Mantis are exactly the way I like to fight: Stick behind and send thousands of minions or in this case, fighters onward to eliminate the enemy. While their economy is very interesting with the mutating buildings, their ships are unmatched when it comes to long range fighting. Celareons are interesting to play against multiple and/or strong opponents as they're heavily defensively focused. Although their ships don't take that much of a big punch, their battle stations are even better in this manner. With their technology they can eliminate an enemy from behind, from the inside. The game itself offers much replay-ability, although it could have been done better if there were a map/galaxy editor. All in all a very good game and definitely worth buying. Please also note that if we, the community press on and on, the former devs perhaps think about developing the planned but abandoned CFW 2. I would really like to see this and it would be cool if you could support them too.
