Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain
Windows version
A horrible travesty, both of the space-empire genre in general and of the remarkable, but flawed original Macintosh Pax Imperia
The Good
It was pretty and had a decent soundtrack
The Bad
The tactical gameplay was boring and repetitive. The tech trees consisted, sometimes with obfuscatory titles, of "Laser I, Laser II, Laser III", etc. - there are no technologies that bring new tactics into battles, nothing really interesting to research at all - it's just the usual real-time "strategy" tank rush over and over.
The Bottom Line
A shame. The original Mac game was incredibly ambitious, and its writers clearly too junior for the task they set themselves - there were some obvious coding problems visible on screen. By the time the license for the PC port came into THQ's hands, they ripped out all the obsessive detail and left an incredibly bland, detailless and boring game.
by weregamer (155) on November 5, 2003