This means you can tailor your approach to a certain extent, but also that events will dictate that you must concede ground to styles and opponents you may not have otherwise wanted to, creating a constant internal balancing act. Everything you research impacts at least somebody.
A choice in a quest may be a boost to scientists. Certain buildings will lead to increases in militarism. And every empire can be home to any number of species, whether through assimilation, immigration or expansion.Įvery decision you make in the game alters the make-up of those factions. The game is built on the idea that every empire is able to be home to a collection of political movements/parties/factions, ranging from ecologists to industrialists to militarists. Politics is everywhere in Endless Space 2. Basically, politics is represented in the game exactly as it plays out in the real world. It’s chaotic, and impactful, sometimes under your control, other times a spiralling beast of its own creation. This screen gives you an overview of how different political factions within your empire are growing, and what’s influencing them in case you want to nip that in the bud.Įndless Space 2 features the finest strategy game implementation of politics I have ever seen. Exploration, research, ship design, diplomacy, trade, it ticks all the boxes, with the only things standing out a little being the quest system and presence of hero units, both of which will be familiar to anyone who has played Endless Legend. In terms of how ES2 lines up against its competition in the space strategy space, all the standard stuff is here. It’s better news for newcomers, though, because these types of games can seem daunting at first, so keeping things clean and simple will make slotting into the Endless Space series for the first time pretty easy. Everything you want to do in this game is rarely more than two or three clicks away, and nothing it wants to tell you is hidden.įor experienced players, or those who will just be playing this game a lot, that’s good news, since it will save you time getting around.
You never get lost looking for a command, or overwhelmed with information. There are helpful tips explaining how almost everything works if you just hover the mouse over a button. Every command or button is sat next to other, similar things. Everything in ES2 works as it looks like it should.
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