I can honestly say that I remember buying this game. I was fairly young when I found MoO2 and loved every single click of that game, then along came the newest and greatest of the series. I thought to myself "I'll work extra hard this summer and save my money to buy Masters 3!". I never worked so hard in my little adolescent life, I mowed lawns and got a part time at the local hardware store (which I now realize was illegal given my age). Finally the day came, I had saved all the money I made and could finally get the game. I went to Wal-Mart with my mom and happily laid my money on the counter for the cashier with the biggest smile a teenage virgin can have. I was so excited to get home that I didn't even remember to help my mom in with the groceries. After what seemed like the longest wait of my life I had finished installing and was ready to play. (The next part here I edited out because it is just too painful) After about two hours into my first game I had started to develop a keen sense of how the game was intended to be played, sit in a chair, marvel at all the useless data that gets thrown into your face, click the End Turn button and watch your empire do whatever the heck it wants cause there really isn't any reason to interact with the game at all. In the end I wasted an entire eight week period of my youth working and saving for what could only be described as a simulation game simulator. Just get a job as a trash collector, it is more fun than this game.
