Endless Space 2 is colourful and rich in story. Where most strategy games dare not tread is in the application of narrative. Before you know it you are leeching their resources and passing through their star systems as you wish, leaving them to provide a protective belt around your home star systems. Your superior science and tech development can allow you to leapfrog far beyond the military factions and their base level of negotiations, allowing you to turn up to the diplomacy table with options they haven't a clue about. However this isn't frustrating, it's actually hugely enjoyable trying to work out how to deal with these challenges. You can push forward as fast as you want through your science perks, but when the enemy turns up they either want to beat you to a pulp or settle forcibly on your surrounding star systems, thus starving your own resource expansion. To expand on how this can play out you may choose the robotic empire that's very strong in science, however, unbeknownst to you at this early stage, your starting galaxy is right next door to a war loving empire who happen to have started randomly in a solar system rich in resources and bonuses. It's as if Amplitude accepted it could never perfectly balance a game of this scale and leant headfirst into the idea that these races can offer you a challenge to play as and sometimes a challenge to play against. It builds in huge core differences for the races throughout the game, from the tongue-in-cheek intro movie across many of the core quests and storylines you are faced with, to the tech tree.
It all usually evens out though, often desperately trying not to unbalance the game.Įndless Space 2 is much braver than that. One may be the combative race with +1 on space ship fighting but -1 on diplomacy. Most games in this genre will differentiate a new race by tweaking a couple of the generic stats. You choose one of eight very different races to begin your colonisation of the stars. Living up to its name, Endless Space 2 provides a huge and amazingly rich, randomly generated universe each time you play. There is a reason this game has to be better than merely good - this is Endless Space 2, the sequel to one of the 4X greats of recent times. Perhaps tomorrow you will be industrialists.
Until you realise bedtime has long gone and dawn is breaking on another glorious day across your galactic empire of. It will take hours of your life and in the name of just-one-more-turn.
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