Tried this on my well provisioned laptop and desktop both with and without setting the 'run as admin' flag (was suggested 'fix' in support) - will not launch. I'll give it a try in a Windows XP Virtual machine, but I shouldn't have to resort to that.
MOO II tops my list of my all-time favorite games. The near perfect blend of 4x. I had hoped this would follow in the legacy, avoiding the mistakes made in MOO III. As many of the other reviews have noted, this is a 'dumbed down' iteration of the series, and it's lacking many of the features found in the original, such as; Leaders, ability to move between systems without 'warp points', meaningful events (I've only seen 3). There seems to be a lot of things in the game that are unrefined, as I would normally see in a Beta release. Rally points for construction. I'm hoping that many of these will be resolved in future updates On the upside, politics seem to work better, the game is graphically very pretty and the voice acting well done, I like the new interface.
