Recent reviews by Sweawm

Was pretty fun to play a while ago when I first got it, but now they've shoved in a ton of unnecessary annoyances into career mode, like an 'immersive' hub that just makes going between various menus long and tedious. That and a bunch of annoying characters and a few hamfisted, unskippable talking head cutscenes to stop you actually playing the game for minutes on end to beat you over the heat with some absolutely mind numbing nonsense that's so insufferably on the nose it makes you turn off the audio the entire time they're talking.

I always thought the ruthless space corp setting originally was a bit dour, but a neat and somewhat unique framing device on the gameplay and progression. Now that they've slathered on baby's first 'corporations bad, unions good' plot on top of it, it makes it feel like the game wants you to consider the entire experience utterly miserable, which quickly enough it will do.

An excellent follow up to the first game. Everything feels so much more improved, and the new factions are so much more interesting than the original four present in the first game. The campaign is the best improvement overall though, in that it feels easier, but only because the campaign is much more open in that the mostly coastal map gives you a great many more options for movement and expansion, rather than in the first game when you'd find yourself surrounded with no easy ways out.

Overall, an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoyed the first game or any of the Total War series.