Some aspects of the game look good -- the universe map is nice, the starship battles look alright. But two things look like games I played 15 years ago: the map of where impvovements are on each planet (reminds me of a computerized version of Risk I had 15 years ago) and the land invasion screen. What I'd like is something that brought more of a sense of what the planet actually feels like and that seems a bit more like an actual battle (honestly, it reminds me of ant war -- I played that about 20 years ago).

I'm not saying these are the most important things to work on (I would like a civlopedia, the ability to click on a tech and know what it does for you, in general more user-friendly controls), but I think it would add a lot. I'm not normally one to care much about graphics, but these feel really cheap to me.

-- hintikka (Edited to protect my true identity)