I started playing galactic civilizations II a long time ago played through many many skirmishes but never played the single player campaign. To me it seemed weird to have a 4x campaign -- how can you colonize whole worlds back and forth during a single mission. It would kind of be interesting if the entire campaign played in a massive galaxy map somehow.
On another note is the single players campaign worth playing in galactic civilizations II? Also if you've played gal civ 2 first can you play gal civ 1 or does it seem too dated compared to galactic civilizations 2?