Master of Orion: Collector's Edition

This is not "remake of classic": more like "Master of Orion 4" - Xbox and Playstation ready. Totally dumb AI, colorful cartoon-like graphics, no turn-based space combat (because this kind of combat is "too slow").

First, worst and foremost, after I had purchased and greatly enjoyed (for well over a decade) MoO2 and had recently purchased and begun to play MoO3, MoO3 suddenly stopped saving or loading games due to an apparent unavailability of directx surface. In the same week, after so many years of very good function, MoO2 seized up and never worked again. Neither will load at all with Windows7, and both stopped working with XP at the same time. I tried to find tech support, but no matter whom I sought out, none was available. They are still retailing the programs but there is no support for them. That was the worst of the problem. I am at a loss as to why the developers discarded almost entirely the very functional intuitive interface used in MoO2. I am a fan of the series and have played it since the first release of MoO (1). MoO3 seems to allow the player only a supervisory role while the computer plays the game. Combat is nearly impossible to coordinate, and the planets do as they please. I can understand setting zones, and that is fine, but the older series let you pick which buildings to construct where and what to do with them. No matter how much you try to play and strive to understand, the NPCs always overpower you and have all the advantages. Everything takes excessively long to do and cannot be accomplished in time to compete with the AI characters. It is simply too difficult to play well, and once you start to figure it out, it quits working at all. Not what I would call a successful venture.

No turn based fight... No argument to buy :-(

But this is not Master of Orion game. The bland mobile UI, the bland "tactical" combats. And the "warp point" movements. Don't let me start on those. If you've played original game, you won't appreciate this cheap parody. But this is still a good game, if you ignore the fervent claim to be the reigning successor to the series.

I never played the first MOO, but I was a big fan of Master of Orion 2. MOO3 was a big catastrophe in my eyes. My hope was, that somebody would make a remake of MOO2, with the same depth. I tested many of the games, that come in the meantime, like Galactic Civilations, Star Drive, Interstellar Space Genesis and (the new) Master of Orion. The management of the Systems and Planets is okay. But i have the same problem like with MOO3. I miss tactics in the battle. I cant be surprised by an attack, because the connections between the systems prevent them. And I also cant cuild ships and perform my special tactics in the battle, because the game mechanics does not allow that. For me is the fight and the possibility for tactics in the same way important, like grownig my empire in acquire new Systems/Planets and the specialisation of planets. My favorite, that gives me almost all the stuff, I had in MOO2 is still ISG.