So I have been recently feeling a wave of love for sci-fi, and I decided I wanted to play a space strategy game. I have played Star Wars: Empire at War, and then I donwloaded the demo of SoSE, and I really like it.

But is it worth getting the full game, how good is the story etc...

Thanks for any advice

SoSE is very, very good. I only play the skirmish though, not the missions. Have played it for hours.

I got the expansion pack for it (Entrenchment) a few weeks back, but haven't played it yet - I have a week off work though so I should manage to squeeze a few hours in!

It doesn't have a single player campaign, but it is an excellent game.  Individual matches can last for hours though, so it isn't really a game to be played in short bursts.  I think there was going to be another expansion to add a single player campaign, but I'm not completely sure about that

it's like civ in space... so great

isn't it in real time though?

I should have bought it already, but I know it's a time-demanding game so I keep delaying it and buying other games (which I don't finish anyway)

another one I'm considering buying is Sword of the Stars, but it's another one it will take a while before I get it .

I thought it was boring
The sheer scale was very impressive, but it was too slow, I couldn't get into it

Clearly my tastes have changed as I've got older, I used to love games like this

Real time strategy part is bad for this game.

They should have made building as turn based and space battles as homeworld real-time battles.

I'd rather play MOO2 and Homeworld 2 again instead of SoSE

I believe the game Sword of the Stars is like that. It's been a long time since I tried the demo so I don't remember it that well.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my copy of SoSE has no 'mission' mode. It's all skirmish (albeit user-defined skirmishes).

It's a good game. But as far as I've played, 100% of the game is in skirmish mode...So that is entirely upto you on if that's good or bad.

it is only skirmish mode. but the game us pure amazing.