Emperor of the Fading Suns

by SegaSoft, Inc.

Product Details

• ASIN: B000AQ7K4I
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,175 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

In Emperor of the Fading Suns, players control one of five noble houses, each trying to command enough votes to be crowned Emperor of the Known Worlds. Players must deal with complex politics as different factions try to force their own agendas and gain favor with the more powerful noble houses. War, treachery and trade all combine to make EFS a grand strategy game. Its immersive background and science fiction setting provide a unique feel and point of view. Emperor of the Fading Suns is a five player game developed by Holistic Design and distributed by Segasoft.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Suprisingly large scale and complex strategy game, August 8, 2006

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J. Wisner (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Emperor of the Fading Suns (CD-ROM)

This game has all the makings of a wonderful turn based strategy game. In many ways it is better than MOO or Galactic Civilizations (particularly having a non-generic feel to the universe.) The only real problem is it's somewhat unbalanced and feels somewhat unfinished at times.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow: best Turn based space opera of all!, October 17, 2010

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C. Richards "gfvr" (uk) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Emperor of the Fading Suns (CD-ROM)

What a shame this isn't better known: Great, deep, inteligent, accessible, good UI, hex based sea-land and network-web locations in space, explore, build, war-or-peace, diplomacy, trade, reasearch, leaders, special options, special units, hidden objects, enough mystique in small aspects of what is otherwsie a HUGE but clear and complex universe, some nice video too. I'm struggling to load it into my Windows XP (No problems with 2000/ME). Lots of update patches out there to upgrade the various small bugs (a few crashes likely in the basic game) and the AI (which is only OK otherwise). Head to head is possible.

An absolute classic of all time, on a par with Lucas arts 'Star Wars-Rebellion' alas also seeming to pass into history; get it if you can.

(BTW CD not needed to play)