This little gem really nails it. What it really reminded me of was Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker (well the sailing bits anyway). Perfect graphics, perfect mood, perfect amount of open world to discover, and perfect length for a game. Never overstays its' welcome, never feels like a grind and leaves you wanting just a little bit more. If you've seen the trailer, read a review/preview and think you might like this, you almost certainly will. My ONLY gripe is that it just needs a slightly longer upgrade and acquisition path, it feels like unless you're there for achievements, the fishing/trawling/crabbing/salvaging all becomes redundant for the last half of the game. Still, on my second play through now!
I played this forever back on the Amiga 500, and have replayed it many times more in the last 20 years through Open TTD. Simply put, if you haven't played this and love Railroad Tycoon or any other transport sim, just play it, it's free, you have nothing to lose!
I think the current version (as at 1st August 2019) is now a pretty good update to this classic series. As someone that grew up playing MOO and MOO2 I think this remake mostly gets it right. As others have stated, it feels a little simplistic at times, but you can dial up the difficulty, increase random events (including Antarans now) and fiddle with the victory conditions to change the challenge level. Would definitely recommend for any fan of the original two or fan of 4x games.
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.
The game that killed a seminal franchise. Where MOO & MOO2 bring back as many fond turn-based memories as the best Civ games, MOO3 seems like it was made after the designer got the specs from a long game of Chinese whispers while in solitary confinement in a third world prison. Can't warn people enough, especially fans of the first two MOOs, to stay away at all costs.
