So I got interested on this form Steam and HOLY SHIT. This game is friken enourmous and utterly amazing. The closest games I can equate it to are Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, but AS is just so much more than that.

The game is an RTS game however it feels a lot more like trun based at times. The idea is that you are always up against 2 AI whether you play co-op or single-player (there is only co-op, not versus liek in most RTS games). The idea is that the more you kill of the enemy AI the more pissed off they get and the harder they hit. They have ships you can't build and abilities you will have particularly the fact that they can just warp in and attack you and continually do so. The more you piss them off the harder and the more ships they send your way. The fact that there is up to 120 systems (80 is default, 10 the least) means you cannot take over every planet because the AI will be so pissed off they will just wipe you off the fce of the galaxy.

The only goal you hve is to destroy both AI centers, which you don't know where they are, and defend your home base from being annihilated. There are dozens of different types of ships and each type can be capped at around 200-300, also build times are nevere more than 30 secs (and you can reduce buidl time by 2,4, or 8) so it really comes down to strategy in winning. The graphics aren't much to look at (they are 2D sprites) but let's face it, when battles reach thousands of units at a time and turrets all over the place that is probably a good thing.

Sounds neat. Sadly not what i was hoping for when i clicked on the thread though.

I miss the AI wars i used to run on Age of Empires 2.

Interesting, I will have to take a look...

Sorry for disappointing you, but you really need to check this out, it's an amazing game. I'm just trying to spread the word on this indie game because it's literally better than most full budget games out there. It's absolutely phenomenal if you are into strategy games and it's just absolutely wow. Seriously check it out, here's a link to their home site and a video :

http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_features.php

Shameless bump, because this game is just THAT amazing.

The trailer video really piqued my interested so I got the demo. After the demo and doing the tutorial I immidiately bought the game. I'm in 4 hours of my first 80 planet campaign and im only about 50% maybe less done. This game is absolutely big. It's basically a Civilization that's an RTS.

So anyone who has checked it out and gotten it, if anyone, would yall be interested in some co-op games?