The ship graphics are pretty cool, but more of them would be better. Only four pics per ship type isn't a whole lot, and I think 8 would have been a better goal. As to the game, it's really pretty spartan. The only sound is during combat, and it doesn't really do that much. But really, this game does not need sound.
Sound is superfluous.
You see me offen don't you. Well stars is a poor graphic game but the AI and mind bogling stratagy make up for that. I have been playing against 1 race on a large galaxy trying to take over a single world for the last 3 weeks yet they are holding off my fleet. I am a turn from crushing the 12,671 ships they have there. To control a world or to start an intergalactic empire.