Does not work on Windows 11, or the installer from GOG is broken. The game comes up with errors and will not start.
I have long been a player of Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (BARIS), which was based upon the board game Liftoff! This game is very much an upgrade of BARIS. For those familiar with BARIS, you will be right at home with this game. This game takes running a space program and extends it. The interface is more modern and the level of detail is much greater than in BARIS. Many of the same concepts from BARIS exist here. You must purchase and research your rocket and vehicle programs, missions are based in steps where checks are made for success or failure, you hire and train astronauts and plan and execute the missions with the goal of beating the other player (whether it is the Russions, or you are playing the Russians trying to beat NASA) to the moon. Upgrades found in this game that were not in BARIS. You now hire specific researchers and train them to specialize them to research rockets, manned rockets, satellites, crewed spacecraft, etc. The rate at which reliability increases with your programs is dependent upon the skills of the researchers you assign to a program. You also hire and train the flight controllers. Flight controllers are trained for specific positions, like booster, spacecraft systems, trajectory, etc. During each mission you assign the flight controllers to the positions that control the flight, when problems go wrong then the skill of the flight controllers gets consulted for fixing a problem. For example if there is a problem with the booster, the flight controller at the booster position is consulted for his booster skill and can have an affect on whether or not the problem gets fixed. If you were a fan of BARIS, you cannot go wrong with this game, this is BARIS on steroids!
Wanted to give it a chance but unfortunately it crashes from the start.
I spent many hours playing this game when it first came out, just like its predecessors, I would love to play this game again, but not at this price. This is getting to be a pretty disturbing trend here on GOG, it seems the last several releases have all been above the 9.99 mark. As mush as I would like to have this game again, I will not be buying it here. GOG, you have made a good name for yourself by bringing good games back for great prices, you are tarnishing your reputation with these prices, please reconsider what you are doing.
These are some of the earliest CRPGs I ever played. I originally played Ultima I on an Apple ][ computer in my school's computer lab. Talk about going way back! Of this first trilogy Ultima III was my favorite, and like others have said, this trilogy is not as good as the second one (IV through VI) but these were still amazing games back when they were created, there was nothing like them on any platform. These are truly classics in every sense of the word. Just remember tho, these are VERY old games and gameplay in them is nothing like that of today, read the manuals and dive in and prepare for a journey through history.
