Twilight Imperium Strategy

If anyone has one, can you tell me how cool it is? Is it worth buying? Compare it to other strategy games.

Game very cool, but it is great and not a game you can easily finish. It is well balanced and includes a ton of miniatures. I would say it is worth buying if you want more games (or need one for your collection).

Potential problems (compared to other strategy games):
- Theme Sci-Fi
- Highly strategic, downtime while waiting for other players to decide on their movements and make them.
- Very long (easily three hours, often up to 6)
- Eliminating player can put players on the game and waiting (probably a potential problem when the game lasts so long)
- Quite a high degree of randomness