as the main title says now, the preorders for the game are finally open, so if you interested...

i had the luck to be part of a closed beta, played first 5 missions of the single-player campaign and it definitely had the potential, well its not Homeworld and from certain aspects of the game you could feel its not a big AAA title, but for me, it was good enough. Last 2 missions brought even a nice story twist and change of pace to the gameplay, i rarely play single-player campaigns, but i was able to finish these 5 missions without feeling bored and annoyed...and wanted more!

Regarding hardware related stuff, although that beta - it was in february - contained few mostly gameplay related bugs and there was quite a lot of polishing to be done, it was pretty stable, no crashes, slowdowns or graphics corruptions. And in general it did not look IMHO any worse than Sins does.

All in all,personally, i am going to get it myself, despite already getting Rebellion. Will probably play GW more for its campaign (btw multiplayer/skirmish wont be available at the release, its supposed to be released one month later as free DLC though, - for though who are not into campaigns) and Rebellion for skirmish/multiplayer.

http://www.geminiwars.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=199

game is on gold state.... what do you Soase fans think ? Will it be a decent competitor ???

This is fairly true, but IMHO its worth the money - just for the campaign and few matches of multiplayer/skirmish i will probably play. Sometimes i am in no mood to start new game of Sins - for such cases is GW good alternative.

Anyway, the game is out just today, already got the mail with the serial key, so i cant wait to come home and give it a try...