For me, this is nostalgia in a little packet
Very versitile heroes with a variety of skills and personalities. Not an easy game to learn but once you know all the tricks, the difficulty lowers quite considerably.
My review title states it all. A game you can take at your own pace once you unpack rooms for your station and the missions give you a wide variety of of challenges with the hilariously well voice VAL helping and sassing you all the way. A variety of 9 different races, plenty of little details which add to the hilarity to each level, fun trading with passing merchants, virtually full customisation of your station as to where your rooms are placed, how big they are. how many items as well as a habitation deck where you can change the environment to either suit your guests/residents/yourself. When you play Sandbox you can completely customise win conditions, whether it's number of items/rooms researched, energy (money) collection, number of territories controlled or just plain old 'kill everyone'. A thoroughly well designed, fun and relaxing game to play.
I don't hate it so far, though not nearly as epic MoO 2. As all games have, they've 'dumbed it down' in order to cater to the masses. I have loved MoO for as long as I can remember but so far, it has yet to amaze me. It just doesn't have the same soul it used to have and as for killing the Guardian of Orion, surprisingly un-epic. The diplomacy system needs a lot of work also. You colonise 3 plants and suddenly the entire galaxy hates you? Even your allies? Despite the fact you have many reasons for them to like you, eg. treaties, exchanging tech and accepting requests, they now hate you because of a bit of colonising no where near their home sector or territory. Also the awful jokes get a little repetitive. I'm a bird, lets make bird jokes,.. I'm a cat, lets make cat jokes...
