During the course of the beta we record our games to see what needs to be tweaked.

Yesterday, during the course of AI tweaking, I recorded the game. This is only on the tiniest of maps and only 2 players so you can imagine how things would be on a huge galaxy with lots of opponents (I'm finishing up on a "Realistic" Milky Way galaxy map for the GalCiv II:Dark Avatar expansion pack).

The gameplay examples shows you some of the ways the game is different even in a 1 on 1 duel on a pretty simple map. In particular, the multi-core AI options in effect (a quick word on the new enhanced CPU *option* -- even if you don't have dualcore, you can use this feature, it just takes slightly longer per turn which to get the extra AI algorithms used whereas on dual core and quadcore it's "free").

Check it out below.  More to come.