Master of Orion 3

Brings back memories - this was the first game of this style that I ever played. I'd have given it 5 stars, but gameplay is a bit more clumsy than I remembered. :P

yes i ove it and now im gonna buy the universe game for 50 usd bless

Though I admit I have never really given this game a "fair" chance... it simply just did not deserve one... one of the most hyped up and anticipated games ever made to date when it was released... turned out to be the biggest dissapointment since.... well.... ever perhaps? DONT get this... just be happy with Master of Orion 2... or if you feel you need something a little more real-time... head over to www.sinsofasolarempire.com and give SINS a try... if you like 4x but wondered what it would be like in real time... then SINS is your gem.... great game with wicked mods.... oh and by the way... Master of Orion 2 is still a hell of alot of fun!

Being someone who hasn't played Masters of Orion or Masters of Orion 2 before seeing MoO3, I found myself latching on to my first experience. Trying to play the other two after getting used to the UI for MoO3 was a painstaking process that sucked a lot of the fun out of it. That said, while veterans of the Masters of Orion franchise seem to tear this version to bits, I find that it's a fairly well-done turn based game. The interface in MoO 3 works fine once you get used to it, and the design really makes it easy to segregate important information and access it when you need it. Others don't like it, but out of the series, MoO3 is my favorite out of all of them.

I can honestly say that I remember buying this game. I was fairly young when I found MoO2 and loved every single click of that game, then along came the newest and greatest of the series. I thought to myself "I'll work extra hard this summer and save my money to buy Masters 3!". I never worked so hard in my little adolescent life, I mowed lawns and got a part time at the local hardware store (which I now realize was illegal given my age). Finally the day came, I had saved all the money I made and could finally get the game. I went to Wal-Mart with my mom and happily laid my money on the counter for the cashier with the biggest smile a teenage virgin can have. I was so excited to get home that I didn't even remember to help my mom in with the groceries. After what seemed like the longest wait of my life I had finished installing and was ready to play. (The next part here I edited out because it is just too painful) After about two hours into my first game I had started to develop a keen sense of how the game was intended to be played, sit in a chair, marvel at all the useless data that gets thrown into your face, click the End Turn button and watch your empire do whatever the heck it wants cause there really isn't any reason to interact with the game at all. In the end I wasted an entire eight week period of my youth working and saving for what could only be described as a simulation game simulator. Just get a job as a trash collector, it is more fun than this game.