This game, even in the tutorials, is mind-bogglingly slow. You start playing and then find it takes ages for resources to build up (on fast resource setting), your fleets take an age to get anywhere, if you're even thinking of dominating the system then you're looking at a good 7 hour game. Saying all that, the content is good, there are plenty of ships and a good tech-tree style research system. Your forces have different abilities and visuals and the economic system is well done. Overall a good game, but utterly slow.

The game itself is flawless but the fact that you need to install "additional" software (impulse) to update the game is ridiculas and impulse is also needed if you want to use the "micro" expansion pack.

if i was you i'd wait for the complete gold edition thats fully patched

Been playing this since lauch and its a dam good game, forget story as like any other RTS game Story dont mean much. what you have are 3 factions that with different abilitys and played on maps that range from just a few planets to galaxys that hold over 100 planets. the only other way i can describe this game is Supreme Commander in space without out the stupid mass energy thing.