Eventually as I found myself spending the gameвЂ™s currency вЂ“ вЂњDustвЂќ вЂ“ to hurry production it hit me that the game felt like I was playing Civilization. Laughing at the bit of absurd humor I knew I had found my race to play.ДЄs I poked around in my first game against an AI, I found myself unable to shake a feeling of familiarity. Now he and his army seek to beautify the galaxy by populating it with only the most beautiful. Having an ego the size of your typical gamer, he immediately set upon creating a race modeled after the most beautiful person in the galaxy, himself. Apparently Horatio was an industrialist that was every bit as crazy as he was rich, and ran away from civilization, only to stumble upon an alien cloning facility. The first thing that hit me as I started setting up a quick skirmish was the races, and one of them stuck out to me: the Horatio.

It might have been a bit of a gimmick, but it was interesting to use their tools to track the games progress through Beta and the eventual release. When I first heard of Endless Space, I was drawn to itвЂ™s Alpha by something I had to look twice to believe вЂ“ a developer was letting players choose between models and artwork by voting on their website. Endless Space is a beautiful and well detailed turn-based strategy game that follows an old, solid concept for space games. When it comes to eye candy, Amplitude StudiosвЂ™ new entry into the 4X genre certainly has a right to brag.

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