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Great Game of Galatic Proportion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 26
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Want to rule the World? Why stop there in this Game you can rule the universe.

This game offers great game play on the scale of MOO and MOO2.

The only bad side to this game is it is resource intensive. Do not expect quick loads or start up times if you are playing a large or huge universe.

Buggy Mess

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game crashes to desktop an amazing amount of times. The technology tree was large and interesting (ala MOO2) enough I decided to play through the crashes. I could not however, play through the horrid bugs and exploits that allowed you to win at the higher levels of difficulty. The worst example is building galactic privateers, which protects your freighters from attack...the enemy fleets chase around after your invulnerable freighters and after some trigger (I didn't bother to try and find out) your home planets (and the enemies) become invulnerable to attack by troop transports. With your worlds invulnerable, you cruise to a tech victory. Long story short: game uninstalled, disk thrown away.

Brain Cells beware, this game will kill allot of you.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Nothing like a good strategy game that will wipe out brain cells when you're depressed and/or lonely.

This game is exceptionally fun and Very inspiring, keep the name Stardock in mind.

Stardock the makers started off a very small company with good ideas and exceptional programmers, the company is the game, unlike Ubisoft, Atari and other mega-giants who don't even know there product or care to support it, Stardock takes a personal interest.

The fanatics generated by the open-ended nature of this game have thrilled me with Babylon V and Star trek revisions of the game which easily could be sold as stand-alone expansions.

The selective complexity of the game remains just good enough to be entertaining and fun while remaining simple enough to play in short or long periods, the AI for strategy gets an A+.

The real fun in the game comes in MAKING your own starships, interfacing with a common language like XML to create scenarios', designs and storylines (limited),

The premise is the same as all good strategy games; grow your civilization, arm yourself just enough to achieve your goals and win a victory based on your choice. Be a war monger and blast all your enemies to pieces, be a diplomat and form a galactic alliance of coerce your enemy to surrender to your superior way of living etc...

The 3D battles are like 1980 television show CGI effects, but truly a treat, again remaining simple means you are not on the helm of a ship targeting enemies but rather arranging to win the battle by combining arms and fleets to get the upper edge what strategy is all about, and then if your really good not one shot has to be fired, but then you miss the cool effects.

It's a game priced well, from an exceptional company (a 3d0 replacement possibly).

Pros:

Very compatible with most machines and graphic cards,
Fast and multi-tasking so you can commiserate life's pointlessness while you destroy the universe.
Excellent support and community structure, FREE add-ons.
A true desire to work with there users rather then leech them out of some more small change.
No CD in drive 24/7 needed to run

Cons:
New release does not work on my older p3, even though it is loaded. (Intel Graphics)
I can't tell what version, what upgrade, what release I should get or have or should have, there sales teams needs a little bit refinement
(Which is sort of backwards since everyone else sells you the Brooklyn bridge and there tech teams is the clod)

All in ALL it's worth the money you won't be disappointed
Duftopia

A wonderful game experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Thoroughly enjoyed this game. It was relatively easy to learn but hard to master. A good challenge for a good amount of time. Really enjoyed the ability to customize many aspects of the game, from how the galaxy is initially setup to how your ships look when designing new ones based on technology breakthroughs. For anyone who enjoys space strategy games this is an excellent choice.

Better than Lego . . . Almost.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So far I like the game a little bit. My reservations may come from the fact that I have trouble with turn based strategy games (where is my bum rush?) or from the fact that this genre at some point can feel like a job as opposed to a game. But this game has the feature to end all features, the shipyard! It is like have legos and building spaceships all over again. This strategy really sparkles when you build the ships to your design and send them out. The design has little impact, but gives your race a feel of it's own. Noticed a bug so far where I can't load save games (ouch) but hopefully there will be a patch soon.

The game is very similar to the civilization series, but has a flavor and humor all it's own. If you like the civ series you will like this for the same reasons. If you didn't like civ, then you should not pick this one up.

I want my money back!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 25
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DON'T BUY THIS GAME. Whoever said that this was a worthy successor to Masters of Orion II should be killed. This game is awful! You don't get to DO anything. Neither the fleet combats nor the ground combats are interactive--all you get to do is watch. The micromanagement gets old if you have more than a few planets and the technology-tree is difficult to use. Considering how little you get to do, you might as well go watch T.V. instead. This game is garbage. I wish I could get my money back.

worth a try

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Strategy element is nice but there is really no tactical control - there is no real control over the battles and that is what is missing most from this game.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 38
Date: June 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this expecting an imaginative fictional version of the Civilization series. This game does not live up to any Civilization title in depth or playability. The races are functionally indistinguishable from one another except by colors, and the technology tree is woefully shallow and limited. I would not reccommend this game to anyone.

weak Install, great game but heavy strategy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Sloppy install interface, but installed fine. Plays like a new and improved Master of Orion 2. The manual is terrible but the distributer has a good website with some helpful forums. Highly recommended if you loved MOO2, just remember this game takes LOTS of time and lacks the super graphics/action that most modern games have. Virtually no loading time on my P4 3.2 GHz.

Bottom Line compared to MOO2:

Better graphics and runs perfectly
Way better AI (doesn't need to cheat!)
way better diplomacy
weaker space combat (automated now)
Easier planet control, but strange math for bonuses (possible bug)

Could Have Problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game's support for high-res video systems is poor. If you're running a res higher than 1400x1050, you'll get hash when starting the game. Their help files do nothing but warn you to update your video driver to the latest version. Their online support is in a Forum layout that is mostly from other users who likely won't have the same card or problem you're having. No where in the Readme's or help files does it tell your where you can modify the video settings prior to starting the game. You will have to go into My Documents\My Games and open the Prefs.ini file. Locate the resolution settings and change to the approprite numbers then save it. Make sure to have your display settings changed to match before trying to start the game. Max res for a desktop is listed in game as 1400x1050. If you're using a Widescreen monitor, max res you should set both the Prefs.ini and your display settings to is 1280x800. If you try to go any higher than those, you'll get a hash or blank screen.

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