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A Sword of the Stars II Video For You


No, really, it's for you, Steve. The rest you guys can watch it to, I suppose. In it developers Kerberos talk a bit about what they're up to with Sword of the Stars II: a dark force returning to the universe, giant spacecraft raking each other with giant beam-weapons, a complex and story-driven 4X game, an empire-driven hierarchies and organisation, complex diplomacy, and so on. Interestingly, lead designer Martin Cirulis suggests that the game will essentially start you "mid-game", in that you won't be building up the races from scratch to fight the big bad, you'll already be well developed, and taking it from there.

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