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Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Review
April 10, 2007   Jakub Wojnarowicz > [View My Other Articles]
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Pros

Graphics
Though GC2: Dark Avatar isn't eye-popping by any measure, the ability to customize your ships is spiffy and people have come up with some amazing designs.

Gameplay
Great AI, good research system, lots of decisions and choices to make. Strategies really range from anything like early conquest with a war-focused race before it falls behind the tech curve, to dominating the political, economic, or technological arenas. Dark Avatar is quite possibly the best 4X game ever.

Interface
Though it does some things rather oddly, in general the interface is crisp and clean.



Cons

Late-game performance
Once the later stages of a game are reached, performance really begins to take a hit.

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