This could have been a great game. but unfortunately, the battle mode are a PITA. They focused too much in individual ships pathing, and micromanagement, instead of allowing players to select the whole fleet to move to point A, or attack target B. After a few hours of game play I had to give up because it was taking forever for each turn, as you have to control every single step of every single ship. It drives you nuts...
This is one of the few games I never had the time to finish. I got stuck in the Tank Escape part, and shortly after College Uni Studies sucked all my time, by the time I wanted to play it again I lost my backup and game during the moves. And the 386 PC I had it installed on died and lost everything... I've always wanted to finish this little gem. This game really got me into the RPG scene, back in the days this game along with Monkey Island, Space Quest and Wing Commander it would have used up all my spare time. Also it was such a rare find for a PC game featuring China, back in the days it was extremely rare for a game to feature anything but America cities, or completely fictional lands, so the game was like an interesting Virtual Exploration of China, when the internet was not even born, and there was wikipedia or google map to search and lookup Scienes from China. The game overall was very good, same type of menu and play mode as typical Sierra Games, like Space Quest, King Quest, Larry, etc. Back in the days this would have been among the AAA games line up of games. The story is interesting enough for you to want to complete the game to read the whole thing. It's your typical Hero saves the princess from the enemy type of story.
I still have the original CD disk here with me. One of my most memorable games, besides MOO2, a great 4x jewel in the Sci-Fi genre. I spend soooooo many hours in this game, MOO2 while being fun, it was dated, and it was DOS, this game came during Windows times and with really good graphic by back then. Also the story was surperb, I'll not spoil it for people that haven't played yet, but you are in for a surprise at the end of the game ;) The only fault about this game, is the lack of replayability once you finished the story line. It made me really want to go out and buy the Continuation story, or a DLC, but back then these type of stuff were not popular. Technically you can replay it as many times as you want, if you just care for the 4X stuff, but once the story has been revealed, it's not as exiting anymore, and the conquering of the planets becomes easier as you know what is unfolding already. I'm still looking forward to see a Continuation to this story. They should have made a series, something like Mass Effect but for the 4X genre.
