Gamasutra, the game industry's leading developer-oriented website takes a close look at the reception Galactic Civilizations II has received.

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One of the more creative of these gameplay features is ship creation, which Firing Squad's Jakub Wojnarowicz describes in the following manner: "Not only are custom-designed ships usually more suited to the player’s needs, but they can be impressive creative outlets too. There are five different styles of hulls – Human, Altarian, Torian, Yor and Drengin. Each style will have several types of basic hulls for the various ship sizes – tiny, small, medium, large, and huge. All in all, there must be over fifty basic hulls to worth with – and then these can be customized with weapons and defenses, but also cosmetic additions. The cosmetic changes don’t affect ship performance at all, but do offer a really cool creative outlet for players."

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