Master of Orion: Collector's Edition

As is the game is not worth playing, I've giving 4 stars because it has a lot of potential and it's still in early access. Pro's Graphics - these are very nice and clear. Things look great. Sound - the voice over work is great with lots of familiar voices UI - Very intuitive and simple to learn Con's Tech Tree - the tech tree feels very shallow and just not very good. It's very easy to just get every tech Combat - they are using a real time combat system that is pretty much useless. There is almost no difference between fighting the battles and just hitting auto-resolve. I just wish they would go back to the turn based combat of MOO2. This one pretty much makes the game unplayable for me. I'd rather just play Swords of the Stars then this at this point.

So I made a custom race but can only pick one of theirs?

All the negatives reviews I see here are reviewing like this is a full release game. All of the negative points I saw made that are pointing out features that are missing or aren't as good as the old games have gotten implemented or fixed in patches. PLEASE learn what early access means for a game and provide quality reviews rather than pointless and meaningless trashing of something for reasons that you were told upfront would exist. It makes you look stupid and doesn't help anyone make an informed decision. More and more this is shaping up to be an epic 4x game with features from the original classics added on a regular basis. The best signs of future greatness in an early access game are regular updates and active participation with the community which this one has. If you want a finished and polished experience then DO NOT BUY THIS YET. Wait until they are done and then tell everyone what you think. If you like to be a part of the creation process then jump in and get some input to the developers to help make this as epic as it is shaping up to be.

there is no fuel so you can fly anywhere you can..tha is rly bad..there are wormholes=you have to folow a path= stupid.i hope they will make it like it was at moo2 no stupid paths and max flying distance depends on technology.they should change technolgy cost. its pretty fast to discover all techs.ai still stupid but it will change for sure.but diplomaci need big change becouse like it is now its rly simple and bad.when another civ ask for somethin and you refuse they got angry on you? for real? :D.i made ally with humans right after i met them but over time they wanted all techs ,systems .so diplomaci is now only about you give them all they want or war....so war it is :D.and even if you give them all .they will start hate you over time anyway becouse you loosing their trust every turn.enemy races are always at war with each other(or at least with one and rest truce)no ally no working together .i made it to doomstars and i discovered i can build only one(bad).fighting screen is totaly useless as you have only minimum control to your ships.ships start on battlefield with some order i do not understand and they fly to enemy one by one.or few by few. becouse some are rly far away .i doubt developers read this but if . you should rly change a lot of things and implement things what work and dont trying make some new game system all cost , it will ruin a game.make it hard rly rly hard .i hope there will be settings for difficulty and there will be hardest one whichwill be rly imposible to win.

Have now played this through a number of times and find it to be a very good re-imagining of MOO & MOO2. Only quibble is that by the time you figure out your game is too easy or too hard you've already sunk a lot of hours into it and there's not much you can do but forge on or quit.