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Imperium Galactica II is a real-time game featuring aspects of RTT, RTS and empire-building computer games from the Hungarian-based studio Digital Reality. It is the sequel to Digital Reality's previous game, Imperium Galactica.

Gameplay

Unlike in Imperium Galactica, Imperium Galactica II features complete control over your empire at the onset of the game and is therefore more similar to other empire-building 4X (Expand, Explore, Exploit, eXteriminate) games such as Master of Orion. There are many aspects involved in gameplay, including managing your colonies, diplomacy with other races, space battles, ground battles, and spying on other races.

Managing Colonies – Colonies are what keep your empire alive and must be managed if they are to prosper and grow. The computer can be told to "automanage" one aspect of the colony, such as civilian (the building of parks, fire/police stations, and housing to accommodate the burgeoning population), production (the building of ship and tank factories), or military (the building of forts and planetary guns for protection) to make the player's task easier. Colonies generate income in the form of tax and docking fees paid by for traders. They also produce the ships and tanks necessary to sustain a war.

Diplomacy – Diplomacy is crucial if an empire other than the Kra'hen is to maintain good relations with other factions. In the diplomacy window, a player may trade information and technologies, offer a gift, tell lies about another empire, negotiate treaties, or make a demand with another faction. The diplomacy window of Imperium Galactica II has been criticized by some game reviewers as a major weak point of an otherwise good game. Those detractors point out the player's capability to ally with two factions on opposing sides of a war (with neither faction pressuring the player to take their side) and the alleged predictability of the diplomatic AI.

Space Battles – Space battles take place between opposing fleets consisting of large capital ships and fighter craft. Both types of ships are armed with multi-purpose lasers, but capital ships are also equipped with torpedoes and heavy guns used only to destroy other capital ships. A space battle may also take place over a planet; before the player can invade an enemy planet, he or she must defeat its planetary defenses in the form of enemy starships, orbiting battle stations, planetary shields preventing the landing of ground forces, and planet-based guns with the capability of attacking ships in space. In either case, the space battle concludes when one side has retreated or has lost all of its ships and fighters. Retreating does have its drawbacks however; some ships may be destroyed by space debris or enemy fire.

Ground Battles – A ground battle occurs once a planet's anti-ship defenses have been destroyed and the planet's defender has tanks and/or defensive fortresses on the planet. These defending fortresses and tanks must be destroyed by the attacker's own tanks if the colony is to be taken over. Like in the space battle, an attacker in a ground battle may opt to retreat.

Spying/Trade – An empire may sabotage or gather information on another empire (unless it is the Kra'hen Empire) through spying. Each empire may have up to twelve spies (one per 'Spy Center' that is built on colonies). These spies gain experience after the completion of each mission; consequently, a well-trained spy has a better chance to complete his mission and can perform a greater variety of missions. If a spy is captured by an opposing empire while on a mission, he or she may escape, be killed, defect, or become a double spy for that empire.

Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

The story of Imperium Galactica II is not entirely linear. Instead, what is featured is several scenarios pitting one empire against another, and the main campaign, where the player can choose one of three factions: The Kra'hen Empire, The Shinari Republic, or The Solarian Federation. Each race has different objectives in their respective campaigns, and the player can only win the campaign by meeting these dynamic goals or conquering the galaxy by eliminating all other factions.

Kra'hen Campaign – As part of a brutal and bloodthristy race, your race has a fetish for collecting the heads of your enemies (as soon will be revealed in the gameplay videos) and is entering the galaxy occupied by the other seven races in the game. As Imperator, your objective is to do whatever is necessary to appease your God-Emperor. His orders - to eliminate all other races from the galaxy!

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