This game is so very good in so many ways and so frustrating sub-par in just as many if you ever played the original. Everytime I start playing it again, the limited choices, cheaper combat mechanics, & restricted strategic options frustrate me to quit and boot up the original. All they had to do was put a fresh coat of paint on that game and it would have blown just as many young minds. It's still great and if you've never played the original games, you'll probably love it if you have even a passing interest in strategy games. It's just not as good as the original 2 games, certainly the first. It's a shame the older games play so janky on modern machines through dosbox. It's closer to true greatness than any effort to ever remake old classics like MOO2, but I can't get over the fact that I inevitably wind up so frustrated at the extremely restrictive gameplay mechanics that I keep going back to the original which is wide-open by comparison. Were it not for those failings, it'd be a 5 star game, but they really strapped some rails on this experience.
