HW2 - it looks to be very very interesting and hard <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> , at least for me, I am just in mission 3 or so and stuck, had to replay it around 5 times. I won this battle finally and died at the very beginning of the next mission.
Yes, this game doesn't give you time to rest, to research and build. After you complete your objective it just auto-collects resources and loads next mission.
Good side - you don't have to sit for hours to harvest everything, bad side, when to recover, or do I miss something.
This time there is autopause in game, so you can issue all commands. So, it is not that torturing as blizzard games (I don't remember if you could issue commands when paused in HW1).
Graphics are awesome, you now can target subsystems ans see every subsystem on your ship. (you build research center or sensor array or whatever and see it).
Directx 9.0b comes wuth this game, after I installed the game reported I have old video drivers, <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> wow, so I installed the latest Catalyst drivers for my belowed radeon card <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
So, my verdict, great game and great challenge.
Not to mention storyline and that excellent music I loved in HW1.
