Master of Orion 1+2

MOO2 is still the best 4x game with no challenger around be it old or new. The Race-Customization is unmatched Heros give your Colonies or Ships a significant boost The AI is challenging Mulitplayer works (start it with the seperate Multiplayer button from the Startmenu-Folder - we were using - Hamachi to fake a LAN over Internet connection - works great). The Gamespeed is set to a good value and not out of control. Space Monster that Hide in Systems, Splinter Colonies, Events... Great Battles with Capturing of technological advanced Spaceships. Its a huge mistery why no one ever could capture/imrpove the gameplay with some of the new products. MOO2 is the Ultima VII of the 4x SF genre!

MOO1 is so very dated at this point, and is so vastly overshadowed by the much more refined and charming MOO2, that you, for the most part, probably will ignore it in this combo pack. MOO2 is just superior in nearly every way. In fact, MOO2 is often hailed as the ultimate 4X experience. But I think that is a stretch by today's standards. Once upon a time it was the best thing out there, but even then it lacked refinement and balance. Today, it is still great--it's just there are better 4Xers on the market now. It still receives lots of nostalgic tongue bathing though (hence the glowing reviews everywhere). MOO2 helped define the genre, but it didn't quite perfect it. You'll find some races and abilities in this game that are laughable overpowered. Some parts of the UI will be tedious. Some strange luck factors are involved. And (although rarely) some inconstant AI. But for the time, this was all revolutionary. But other games have evolved beyond these nigglingly issues--so at this point MOO2 shows its age a little.

I've had these two games on every computer I've owned since they were released back in the 90's. To this day I still play both games fairly regularly. Truly epic games that helped to define PC gaming.

These two games made the world go around for me, and getting them back now, on gog.com, just makes me thrilled. The strategy is fun, addicting really. The customized races, galaxy sizes, allow near endless replay. Thank-you Gog!

No matter how many MOO2 clones are released, I still come back to MOO2 because it gets MOO2-ness right. I really hope the clones' developers just go and try a completely different approach to 4x strategy, because MOO2 is still the only one to get MOO2-ness right after all of this time.