i think this game got more hype and credit than it deserved...to me it just looks like an enormously customizable game(which is great) but without a good story line or gameplay.
if the game is able to be beaten in 6 hours i doubt i'll ever develop an interest in it...too bad, from what i've seen and heard before the game came out, it was supposed to be a good one.
[Edited by dstates, 9/5/2008 8:42:39 AM]
I think it deserved all the hype. And just because you beat it doesn't mean you beat it... Space is an open area... If you really enjoy taking over planets there is defenantly no shortage of planets, plus you can play against other peoples' specie to see whose is better. And the idea isn't just to be customizable.. it's to create your specie to be dominant to all others... While at least that was the idea, I think the best example of that working in practice is the first stage, some you could beat and some you couldn't (or had to work a lot harder). It would have been nice if they worked that into the whole game but then I guess if you didn't do amazing from the beginning you would fail later and that would be too hard for most people. And it does have a decent story line... It just hasn't been talked about very much but it exists in space.