The music is fine. Sorry but it is.

Sound volume would be appreciated, though.

Ditto on the hexes. I am now telling my friends about this game.

No reply to question makes me a sad panda.

From the press-release you can go to product info and see some:
http://www.slitherine.com/games/PandoraPC

There are also some reviews online that have screen shots.

All screenshots I have seen have a grid mesh and not a hexagonal one, though.

Oh, and we're going hexes. Can you give some more information about this. The reason I am excited about hexes is because it will allow a much more accurate spherical model of the entire planet to play on than an orthogonal grid would. The thing that bugged me about the Civ games (including Alpha Ce...