Master of Orion

What I feel good for this game: 1.The art in this game is impressive, real impressive, especially when colony ship landing on a planet, the scene is so beautiful that I never skip the cut scene even I have colonised thousands planets in so many games. 2.The AI is good. Well, maybe not so bright but I havn't seen AI do anything stupid. Sometimes the AI even do something amazing me (for example, my rival presents me 40 BC as gift just when I mass my fleet in nearby system.Not much money but that really makes me think about should I attack them or choose another target.) What I feel bad for this game: 1.They borrow so many ideas from CIV5 that makes me feel like I am playing a CIV5 MOO version. 2. Awful cinematic view, they put the camera too too too close to ship so you can only see the ship. You will see little gunfire, few missile, some explosions...mostly is the dumb ship flying around for God-know-what. 3.If you have many colonies finishing something in same around you will have a real lag in hand. My "Best" record is lag for 30 minutes just because I got advanced city planning tech completed and all my colonies(50+) are upgraded at same round. The same problem you will have is the epic space fight with Antarans. When both side put in ships more than 100 in total you will see it. 4. Diplomatic ending seems broken and not available. 5. DLC only unlock playable races, no more. not really worth the price.

I mean games pretty fun and the different races create different playstyles + DLC races. It is relevantly simple but you have to put in alot of hours to refine a build path that suits each race if you want to not make it simple go to the highest difficulty like I do, makes it alot more fun! multiplayer is legit niceu if you got a friend.

Overall a great classic that set the foundation for many strategy to come. Well done. Brought back a lot of memories from childhood.

I wish there was a 3.5 star option, because that's what this game scores for me. Overall it looks nice, has some nostalgia for those of us who played the older games (more MOO1 than MOO2 however), and introduces a few interesting ideas (though not all are actually good ones). Pros: Solid graphics, great sound design, EXTREMELY intuitive, reasonable depth to 4x mechanics, easy to pick up and play, economy is fairly easy to understand (except galactic exchange), great looking battles and good ship configuration (although it does not affect ship aesthetics). Cons: Special events not very interesting, no Antarans or any similar mechanic, planetary pollution can be a chore to deal with and needs to be redesigned, spy network is a chore to deal with and doesn't really work (I find enemy spies whether I have counter-agents or not)l, negotiating seems pointless when the other races always require triple the value of whatever it is you are trying to get, galactic stock exchange is not explained at all, 500 turn limit is ridiculous and I can't seem to find an option to change it (may be my there, but it's well hidden if so). Overall, despite all the cons I listed, it's still an enjoyable game that I have spent many hours playing. I feel that with a patch or perhaps content update, the game could be truly special.

As an adept of MoO2, I swear - this game is 70% MoO2 and it worth its price up to last cent :)