IGN:
I’ve gotten a few good turn-based fleet engagements out of Sid Meier’s Starships, but they feel like the quick tactical minigame component of a larger, more complex strategy game that isn’t here. Instead we get a confusing galactic conquest game that moves too fast for its own good. WIthout the support and context of a thoughtful war, Starships’ hex-based battles lost their luster after just a couple of days.
GT:
We've honored many winners, but before we wrap up, we take a moment to recognize this year's casualties as well.
EB: 2K has announced the arrival of the 2K Editors’ Choice Strategy Bundle on the iOS App Store, which will contain the iOS versions of Civilization Revolution 2, XCOM: Enemy Within, and Sid Meirer’s Starships. The bundle will cost $19.99, which is a 60% saving over buying the games individually. This will be a limited time offer, so act now or be left out in the 2K Non-Strategy-Having cold!
GG:
The name of Sid Meier has attained a godlike status amongst strategy gamers and, it could be argued, for very good reason. Known as a developer who plays his games over and over until he deems them fun enough to launch, many of his myriad of releases are instant classics. None more so than his magnum opus franchise, Civilization. That series was followed by sci-fi spinoff Beyond Earth last year which, while certainly having many of same mechanics, fell short of its predecessor’s glory and of matching Meier’s much-loved Alpha Centauri.
