Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition

$19.99

Release Date:: Nov 30, 2012
Metacritic:: 65
Developer:: Kerberos Productions
Publisher:: Paradox Interactive
Platforms:: Windows

About This Game

The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.

Customize your own starships, amass your fleet, explore the outer reaches of the galaxy and expand your empire. Research new alien technologies and bring them into battle with a mix of turn-based strategy and real-time skirmishes.

Now a new Faction bursts onto the scene, a race of Artificial Intelligence who once served as slaves and now return seeking vengeance. Playing as the Loa, your Fleets will become masters of metamorphosis, shape-shifting into new forms to become the ships you need, where you need them. Durable and hardy, your colonies can be built on any rocky planet. Building an empire of silicon and steel, you will bring your former masters to their knees…or will you bring about the End of Flesh.

Key Features

Play as the Loa, with over 120 new ship sections and their own unique drive system – the Neutrino Pulse Gate
Over 25 additional technologies, including a new Cybernetic Tech Tree
10 new weapons and attacks to use in battle
New ship sections for the original six Factions, including 2 new Leviathan class vessels
2 new Independent Races to encounter, study and incorporate into your empire
New Random Encounters, a new Grand Menace, and new Star Maps
New Evacuation Mission, and Supplemental Mission system allowing players to focus on the Target or the Fleet
All Race DLCs: Suul’ka, Liir, Morrigi, Hiver, SolForce, Zuul and Tarka

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User Reviews

Mostly Negative

3 user reviews

33%

Positive

User #049361 english

383 hrs at review

Not Recommended

I followed this game years ago. I was a big fan of the first, and even though it was tedious, I bought the second. Big fan of space RTS games in general. There was a lot of excitement over this game. It was supposed to be more complex, with better mechanics. Things like crew requirements, missions, customizable space stations and the like. We were even going to get to learn who the notorious Suul'ka were. When the game released, it was half-baked. Many of the mechanics didn't work. The UI was a buggy, unfinished mess that hurt your eyes. Documentation of mechanics and lore were sparse. If you wanted to know how something worked, like the requirements needed to summon a Suul'ka, you had to navigate the official forums and pick through hundreds of pages of passive-aggressive developer posts. Eventually, after a year of patches and fixes, they created the Enhanced Version. The game actually worked, kinda sorta, but it still had memory leaks. They even included all of the DLC as an ap...

User #861342 english

3 hrs at review

Not Recommended

Bad.

User #215349 english

373 hrs at review

Recommended

I have a lot of great memories with this game. It's a bit sad to see it rated so low, especially since many of the negative reviews come from people who only played for a few hours. Their opinions are counted the same as those who spent dozens of hours really exploring the game. I recommend using an SQL editor to unlock all the research options — it really shows the full potential the game has to offer. The graphics are amazing!