Imperium Galactica II Demo

[Patriqvium]

Well, I disliked the combat of the demo, and that spoiled a lot of my experience.

The space combat was a hyper toned-down version of Homeworld and the ground combat looked like a bad RTS. The diplomacy and spying were just mediocre, so I don't think of buying the game.

[Zkribbler]

Couple of questions:

1) Where can I find the demo? I've been all over the ImperiumGalactica.com website & I've found downloads of movies, scenarios and patches (for the French & German versions)...but no demo.

2) Asmodean says you need 128 megs of RAM. Are you guys saying IG2 can be played on less than 128 megs, but it just runs slower?

[Asmodean]

Yeah....you can play it with a smaller computer than the specs I listed. Those were just the specs for a smooth running game. My computer just meets those specs, and still it can be jumpy at times.

Asmodean

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I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead

[Zkribbler]

Thanks, Asmodean.

[Adam_Smith]

I just finished the tutorial for the demo. It looks good so far. The game that I compare it to is Deadlock for those of you who know what that is. Of course, it's real time. I think that it's an improved real time though. I hope you don't have to struggle between building and fighting at the same time. Does anyone know?

[Adam_Smith]

This is the remaining question for me: does multiplayer work? Has anybody tried it out?

[Garth Vader]

Has anybody used the Air Strike/Laser Strike pods? I couldn't design anything that used them and I wanted to try them.

[Adam_Smith]

Garth,

No, I haven't gotten that far yet.

I have a few questions too. One, who will try this out on multiplayer with me. I don't really know what I'm doing too much, but I want to try it out.

Two, is there another forum or anything else where people can meet and play or chat.

[John-SJ]

A.S.

The developers site, www.gtgames.com has front page links both to the IG2 site and to the forum.

John-SJ

[Adam_Smith]

Thank you John

[Adam_Smith]

I was very excited about this game. I had to try it so I went and bought it after playing the demo after a very short while. After all you really can't tell how great a game will be until you play it multiplayer.

Unfortunately I became more and more disapointed. The biggest let down is that you can't even save during multiplayer. I just couldn't believe that at all. I played about a dozen mutiplayer games. They were not fun. Most of the people who play the game are more into RTS so they did not want to pause the game and micromanage. They just want to play it like Homeworld or Command and Conquer. Single play is also not good. There are only 3 levels of difficulty. The second one is too way too easy, and the third is way too hard. That is the sign of an AI that has been programmed very badly. The designers had a good thing going here, but I think they decided to make a quick buck and release this prematurely. Their rep will be hurt by it though I think.

I thought that this game would be a good sign of things to come for RTS: a game that would appeal to RTS and TBS palyers both, but it turned out to just be a pile of crap with good graphics.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I guess I'm easy to please...

I bought it (I have every game there is ), and I like it. It is a little slow at first but after you get an empire going (6 or so planets) there's enough to keep you (me) busy. Of course, EVERYTHING runs better on the super 750!

Anyone want to try MP just email me. I'm free (completely) until Thursday this week.