At last after all the demand by the users, IG II is available for purchase on GOG and STEAM. At the time I played only the demo that came in a disk of a magazine , but I believe it was the demo that I played the most that I remember. I never forgot the soundtrack, the pleasure that I had amassing a strong fleet to conquer other planets, researching that awesome tech, diplomacy and spying on my opponents (this in the demo only), constructing buildings on the planet surface and see them in real time being built and placed on the surface is a wonderfull thing. The ship design was extremely intuitive to use, the diplomacy have a lot of options to use like improve relationship before declaring truce, ceasefire or peace, you can send spys to steal tech, sabotage, start a rebellion, kill other spys, steal money. The fact that you have to destroy the planets defenses in order to invade it with your tanks was new to me (I never played a 4x game before IG II demo so I can´t comment on that being new to the genre or not). The combat is in real time (like the game itself) but you can pause and issue orders. The graphics aged very well in my opinion. This game is in my opinion one of the most complete 4x games ever. Almost everything you think on a 4x game is there. But as soon I start playing the tutorial mode in the GOG version, something was odd. When the tutorial tells you to press 1-3 number keys to change speed, nothing happened. The same with the space bar to pause. And when I got to part 2 of the tutorial mode, the section that tells you to press PAGE UP/DOWN to change planets, I keep pressing them and nothing happens. Tried the numpad lock on and off but nothing, no change of planet. I had to skip the tutorial because we actually need to press thoses keys to continue. I also noticed that the text of the tutorial and in game messages don´t have voiceover, wich I think they had on the DEMO version. For all of this, I only give 3 stars until this problems are fixed. Its not an unplayable game if you ignore these things, but you spend more time with micromanagement of the speed and going from one planet to another unnecessarly.
