[Iron Giant]

Galactic Empires is to 4x as Chess is to wargaming.

I tried hard to like it, but SEIV is much deeper and GE is missing so, so much. GE has a couple of good ideas, but good ideas do not a game make.

Even on the largest maps, you feel like the universe is so small. Ships are just pegs on a board that move until they "click" against an enemy world and then combat is very similar to Civilization 3.

I want a grand space opera, Galactic Empires is Muzak.