I had a ton of fun with this game. The way the AI (enemy) is always and eminently more powerful at all times adds a huge amount of tension and uncertainty to every move. Gone are the days of amassing a huge fleet and sending it in to wipe the map. You have to carefully plot and consider each move while at the same time acting quick. If you have a couple of friends that want to have a blast verse the AI, get AI War: Fleet Command and stick through the learning curve. It's worth it.

it's a good game to play with friends. and a plus is that the serial you get can be used on steam to add the game there so you can keep it with that account too.

A nice strategy game involving building an army to destroy the enemy. Fairly typical idea, but the more stuff that you destroy the more aggressive the enemy becomes, so you have to be wise in whether or not to destroy things or just to ignore them and defend against them.

AI War is a strategy gamer's dream. It combines elements of 4X, RTS, and Tower Defense to create an entertainment experience that is quite unique. If you are looking for a deep, endlessly replayable, innovative strategy game then this is it. Do yourself a favor and pick up the Alien Bundle because the expansions included therein add a ton of content to an already great game. Also, Arcen games updates the game at least monthly, and they have planned more expansions for the future. This is a game worth owning, and it will be on your hard drive for a long time.

It's a great game with an original setting and game mechanics and loads of units available. AI resistance gets higher as you progress in the game.

Great Game!

This game is not about spectacular dogfights, thousands of units and state of the art graphics -it's more of a strategy game where you can spend ten or twenty hours or more in a single game. Personally, I love it!

Taking the time to get into this game is a must. The AI facilitates this by almost ignoring you in the beginning only to wrench up the intensity later on. This makes for a game that peaks where it should, at the final epic battles. I advise beating the system requirements by a lot to allow the battles to be extra large.

At first i thought ...ugh....but it gripped me and held me ever since. Since i dont regard super graphics a must, i rate it excellent for its gameplay, AI and pure fun factor. I often play it on my mediocre laptop when on travels, no problem there.

Lots of people love this thing, but I would warn you to try out a demo first.

For some people it just clicks and it becomes a personal favourite, and for others its a boring grindfest that should have been freeware.

one of, if not the, best games ive played in a long time. It brings back the nostalgia of what it felt like to play dune for the first time or C&C. This game is worth every cent spent on it. From the game play to the feel of the units to the scope of battles this is a perfect game

There is much to be gained from buying this game. Not only is it only 20 dollars but there is a simply huge number of units. The main reason I would recommend this game; it has so much content to cost ratio. There is a massive amount of replayibility, a very intelligent computer enemy, and very interesting strategic gameplay. Perhaps not the greatest game in the world but when I think of other 50 dollar games that were such a disappointment (especially strategy games) I am amazed at how much stuff is packed in this neat little shell.

I've been trying to think of a short description for this game, which is quite hard considering the unusual combination of elements.

This is what I came up with:

Co-op focused 4X RTS with Supreme Commander-ish controls vs Overpowering AI's with surprise attacks.

That's surely a mouthful, but all the main elements are there. The most surprising I find is that so far I've seen no one compare the gameplay to Supreme Commander, even though it's nearly identical to it in most aspects. All that's lacking are basically formations and much of the micromanaging. Some elements function differently, but they look pretty much the same (for example, SC shields = AIW force fields). In AI War you don't get all the good things so easily though, but have to upgrade one thing at a time with knowledge you can gather at each planet, so in each game you usually have a different mix of ships. Many things can only be built and upgraded after stealing the designs from the AI's by capturing their research facilities or factories.

The game progresses pretty much like an average 4X game. You conquer a planet at a time, all which are in control of an AI right from the beginning, however. The planets have varying levels of ships and defense, and you can only build a certain amount of each ship at a time, so you need to think carefully when and where to attack, to minimize losses and not piss off the AI too much, because the more you destroy its important structures, the more an 'AI Progress' value rises, which in turn means it'll attack more, and with higher level stuff.

Considering that the maps can have up to 120 planets (you can choose how many, of course), it can be hard to be in many places at once, and there's always two AI opponents by default, so co-op (haven't tried it yet though, but I definitely will) with friend(s) should certainly make things more strategic and the campaign tons of fun to plan out.

In a way, the AI isn't playing fairly though. Every once in a while it can attack any of your planets, regardless of whether it has a route from its planets or not. However, you always get a warning a few minutes before the attack, so you have some time to prepare. These attacks are often a no-brainer in early game, at least against easier AI's. Talking about the AI's, the game is much about speed, because the AI's constantly get resupplied at their planets, so leaving them untouched for long can really make the planets hard to conquer, and the AI's home planets and their adjacent planets tend to be armed to the teeth when you reach them, regardless of AI level. So don't stall when you play, act as soon as possible! Your goal is to destroy the AI's home planets, afterall. This doesn't mean the campaigns are short though. A 25 planet map has taken me a good ten hours, for instance.

All in all, the game is, considering that it's a one man's work aside from music and playtesting, extremely nicely done, a

Once in a great while, a game silently comes along that exceeds all expectations in execution and substance and does it with grace and style; AI War is such a game. There is way more to this game than I could ever convey in a mere collection of words in this review and it would be pointless in trying to touch on all the intricacies and facets this title has to offer. AI War is a real time strategy set within a space setting that pits you against two AI players in a campaign to dominate the map in any way you possibly can. You can also have multiplayer games via direct IP to fight against the AI together and other players may even join the game at a later time in the battle allowable by the robust options the game offers.

AI War features the most ruthless, cunning and dynamic AI in any game I have ever seen (and I have played hundreds over the years) and there are a plethora of options, AI types, and personalities to choose from to last any player a lifetime of game play. There is a random map generator with several different styles to choose from which uses a seed variation that is even easily recalled with its unique seed number in case you wish to share the map you created with friends. The amount of variations you can enable before even starting a game are staggering and well reach into the billions of possibilities for a different game every time you start a new one.

The amount of units, functions and options presented within the game itself are amazing and paves the way for some really strategic thought within the course of the game. This isn't the classic "pump out a ton of units and flood the AI with Unit X" type of game; you will have to use your brain and devise strategies to try to survive because the AI can be set from clever to brutally ingenious and will have your tactics in a knot right when you think you had the ideal game plan. I have had matches where I formulated my strategy after studying the overall map and then the AI formed blockades on either side of me forcing me to either fight or fall back; a strategy I often use in such games and was astounded to see this occur in logic. You have a good number of basic units that are upgradable and unlocked by gaining knowledge from each planet and spending the relative resources to produce them. This number being in the hundreds as it is, you may also capture certain AI structures to gain additional technology to build yet even more different types of units and there are quite a few opportunities in the game to form very unique and purposeful fleets to try to outwit the AI.

The actual art in the game is in the vein of the old Tyrian game in the form of 2D sprites with very colorful spacial backgrounds for each planet and nice (and useful) effects that match very well with the theme. It's not impossible to see a fleet of 60,000 ships on the screen at one time and this is what the lower overhead of 2D graphics can afford us with as opposed to seeing much less i

Epic battles in space on a grand scale with a plethora of starship types. A work of love and it shows. Definitly recommended, even if you are only remotely interested in the genre. It is a pleasure to explore different strategies, experience countless defeats and struggle for the ultimate victory over the ferocious AI. Unique and inspired game play. Make sure you have got some time on hand if you buy this one, perhaps you are not able to resist the urge to play on your next campaign.

For anyone bored of the plain old 4X formula this is a refreshing blast of solar wind.

The AI opponent is interesting. A threat level determines how it will percieve and react to you, from ignoring you for the most part to out and out total war. Your raids and conquests are often planned around this, to hopefully cripple the AI or boost your own chances before it considers you a big enough threat to crush utterly.

The graphics are basic, but thanks to that the sheer number of units you can command is impressive.

A very interesting and fresh look at the RTS genre. At first this looks like a Sins of a Solar Empire Clone (in itself not a bad thing) but then it develops into a whole lot more. For a start the player has an asymetric relation with the computer; your opponent owns the whole galaxy and is quite capable of wiping the player(s) out immediately. Of course, it accounts for this by replicating alert levels for the computer, allowing the player to run lightning raids on important installations, possibly crippling the AI's means of reinforcements in a particular area, preparing it for a full scale assault. All this in additions to it being a wonderful multiplayer experience makes it well worth a purchase.