Talk:Space Empires III

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[edit] No reviews available online(?)

A few years ago a few online reviews of SE III still survived, but they all seem to have gone now. This is unfortunate since they could be used to back up an assessment of the game (quotes from memory):

• Great strategic depth.
• "Low-rent" graphics (i.e. not very sophisticated).
• Very customisable for its time (1997).
• Lots of micromanagement ("Spreadsheets in space").
• Good user interface.
• Possibly too many options in game start-up and user interface.
• "Tactical combat is torture" (verbatim quote from one review, IIRC).Philcha 11:18, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Races

"and users cannot save race designs."

Untrue. I distinctly remember being able to save .emp files. Empire files. They contained all the data that a "race" file would also contain. SWVRoma (talk) 10:36, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. Can you provide a ref? - I don't remember seeing in the UI or the Manual a facility to save and load Empire files. Does "load" load only the player's race design or the AI races as well? Philcha (talk) 11:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)