Recent reviews by Squid

The campaign is way too short, it only took about 7 hours complete(the PCGamer reviewer took 15 hours somehow). The story is terrible, cinematics are horrible, and controls are clunky.

The special abilities with ships are a complete waste of space. If you select several different types of of ships, scrolling though each ship type to activate the abilities ends up being time consuming and just painful with the terrible UI. Formations urgh!

Ships just don't do what you tell them to do, it's so frustrating continuously telling your fleet to move because they're just sitting there or going after enemies even though you've changed their tactics.

Skirmishes with AI, the AI just go after your resourcing and smaller ships until everyone runs out of RUs, then they just sit around. Setting up a skirmish is a pain as well with having to scroll sideways when there's more than 4 players in the match, where each player has a MASSIVE box to show team/race etc.

As someone who has sunk hundreds of hours into HW1 and the sequels, and backed the fig campaign at the start, I'm so disappointed in what BBI have released.

Junk collecting... in space!

It's like playing the History channel

A game you would play just for the soundtrack alone

Better than Rome 2, but no match for Shogun 2.

The best Total War game of all time

Not as good as the original game.

Rubbish collection simulator. A+++ would collect rubbish again

Guns and nazis

Sandvich!