I've been playing this for a few hours now.
A lot of this has been said in the reviews
- Very in depth
Having to keep you ship supplied as well as watch your resources and arming your units, sending the right units out, engaging with the right weapons etc, etc, etc - this is not lite at all - The manual (on line help - don't know that there is a manual) is woefully inadequate - as is the tutorial
- Some shortcuts would be nice - like activating something on a screen rather than having to click to bring up the screen the then click again to perform an activation (an plain example I've found is the damage screen...you should be able to just click the button to enable the damage team...but you have to activate the screen first and then activate the button...even more cumbersome because you can't do anything else...just click A button)
I've had a great time with it. I've taken 2 islands - but I have been learning the whole time - like what islands to go for for resources etc. The AI has taken 4 islands. I'm not going to defeat the AI - but I'm having a blast learning at the moment.
I don't know if it would be so much better with multiplayer. Perhaps people are saying that because there is alot to do - and no doubt I've been overwhelmed at times - but that's because I don't know what I'm doing. I think if you had a person in charge of the ground vehicles, air vehicles, resupply etc, I think you may get bored.
For £25, I do believe I'll get my money's worth.