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This game has absolutely the most gorgeous space battles of any I have ever played. There is nothing quite like the sight of thousands of tracers flying ship-to-ship at range. I often find myself sitting around to watch the autocam replay after a battle because it's just so cool.
The game is very faithful to the re-imagined series, and fills out the history and mythology of the BSG universe very well. The writing and dialogue sometimes feel a little janky, but if you like the story of Galactica you won't mind at all. I enjoyed every minute of the campaigns, and there are a lot of minutes to be had there! Every piece of content is worth purchasing except for maybe not the Modern Ships pack unless it's on a deep discount. It's only usable in Skirmish (custom single-player battle), multiplayer, and the Anabasis campaign DLC (which is super cool).
The gameplay is outstanding. I'm not as fond of the strategic side as I am of the tactical, but it's not complicated and you can largely phone it in on anything but Admiral and Fleet Admiral difficulty. The strategic game gets better in the later campaigns as you no longer have a map to deal with, just story and resource missions. I found that to be way more fun than constantly dealing with random Cylon fleets and balancing Quorum status. That part of the game felt unfocused and got tedious before long. In fairness, I was playing it slow and building up my fleet, and I took things way too far building way more than I ultimately needed. Tip: you can probably get away with 5-10 fleets, don't go nuts as you'll be importing all of that extra stuff forward through a few campaigns, and the board gets a little messy and eventually you lose all of it anyway. Once you're fielding fleets of 7-8k fleet points, you're ready for anything, and it only takes a handful of those to actually fight battles.
The tactical fights are the BEST I've ever seen. Every fight is so visually interesting, it's just an incredibly cool experience to watch it play out. The turn-based tactics are easy to grasp but offer a lot of room to learn and grow. You will find yourself into some pretty advanced battle plans in the late game when raiders come by the dozens. The fights do get a bit formulaic and they all seem to have the same or similar "phases" to them despite the starting positions relative to each other being randomized. After awhile it becomes: raider swarm, missiles, gunship charge, missiles, missile boat charge, missiles, then lastly chase down the baseships/carriers, but to me it never gets old. It's so fun to watch it play out, and there's enough variation in the relative intensity of the battles to keep them fresh. The game is most fun when you've unlocked everything and you can pick the fights you want to have, and I see myself replaying this many many times.
If you love Battlestar Galactica, why haven't you played this yet? It is the most faithful video game/tv tie-in I think I have ever played. There are so many little references for the avid fan (the design of the Artemis battlestar will look familiar to anyone who's watched the 1978 series), but they give themselves room to tell the story of the First Cylon War and keep things interesting, even though we know how it ends.