Galactic Civilizations II's first expansion, Dark Avatar, effortlessly earned itself an "essential" badge. These days, it's difficult to imagine Stardock's 4X strategy game without Avatar's tweaks -- asteroids to mine, spies to plant, and uninhabitable planets to make habitable. If that was the developer's bid to make the game they really meant to deliver in the first place, then the beta of the second (and final) expansion, Twilight of the Arnor, feels like their bid to make the game immortal.
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Mar 25, 2008, 06:06 PM
