I agree, at first I was thinking it was cool the idea of being able to choose one of the 4 races and each of them have their strengths and weaknesses, because I thought they would have some use in some future fight, but I ended up being disappointed to realize that there is almost no battle in the game, all you do is just visit the other species and in the end decide whether to kill the humans or not
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