Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is the first expansion pack to the turn-based strategy game Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. It added new features such as: Two new civilizations: a genocidal…
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is a strategy developed by Stardock, released 8 February 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is a strategy game developed by Stardock and released in 2007. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is the first expansion pack to the turn-based strategy game Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. It added new features such as: Two new civilizations: a genocidal Drengin offshoot called the Korath and a civilization called the Krynn, A new campaign in which the player leads the Drengin Empire, The ability to create custom opponents, An "environment" statistic to planets, which will determine which civilization can innately colonize or what technologies will be necessary for other civilizations to colonize different planets, An enhanced role for espionage, special "Agents" being hired that can conduct various missions, such as sabotage or…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 22 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar launched on 8 February 2007, within three weeks of Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle, Crackdown and Hotel Dusk: Room 215. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle, Crackdown, Hotel Dusk: Room 215.
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