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Pros

Gameplay.
Despite our complaints about the weak combat, Galactic Civilizations is a 4X strategy experience par excellence (pardon the French.)

AI.
There is absolutely no other game out on the market with strategic AI as competent, communicative and natural as GalCiv’s.

Stability.
GalCiv is remarkably bug-free and has yet to exhibit any serious quality control problems. The only issue is an abrupt cutting off of music, which can be fixed by engaging in negotiations with another race (or ending them, if the music disruption occurred there.)

Kom-bat

I win!

See what I mean by communicative AI

Cons

Interface.
Not so much a con as a warning that not everything is perfect here. GalCiv is generally intuitive but indulges in some oddities that are quite confusing at first.

Combat.
Master of Orion made unit customization pretty standard in space strategy games, and combat in GalCiv is dull enough without it. The poor variety of units and their lack of character really don’t help the situation.