I still remember this as the last computer game I was able to return to the store. It was that bad. The return policy even changed at the store in the 7 days between when I bought it and when I had enough. Thankfully the receipt still had the old return policy. My reason for returning it? They managed to take the idea of Master or Orion and remove all of the fun. Was there something in Master of Orion 1 or 2 that you remember being fun? It's gone from this game.