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Big disappointment after Master of Orion 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love MOO2, have since it first came out and I still play it to this day. It has great replayability. MOO3 on the other hand, doesn't have much playability, so don't even consider replayability. Months after getting it, I still haven't finished the first game because I got too bored with it. I dominate the galaxy with no chance the other races could put up even a small challenge. That could be alleviated by playing at a more difficult setting, but it's quite a statement that I'm winning and not enjoying it. To run the empire the way I want requires incredible micromanagement. The AI governers can not be trusted to develop the regions or fill the military que. Each turn I have to visit every single one of hundreds of planets and tweak what's going on. It is mind-numbingly tedious. On the other hand, the space combat must be done hands-off. Once you opt to start a fight, take your hands off the controls until it's done, letting your AI run the real-time battle. It's just not practical to run the battle yourself. All in all, a huge disappointment and I'll go back to playing MOO2.

a waste of time and money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...P>The interface is desperatly slow and dumb, you'll find lots of bugs, and since you can't focus on everything, whenever you come near the end of the game, basically you don't control anything anymore...so where is the fun of being in charge if your role is reduced to clicking the "next turn" button ?

waste of time and money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a comlete waste of time and money. After playing for some time I have come to the conclusion the designers and programers could have better spent thier time doing something else like installing software on a 286.
I'm going back to playing Master of Orion II!

Don't buy it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If I could give it zero stars I would, this has been rehashed by many reviewers. The most recent (6/6/03) patch still doesn't solve the game's fundamental problems of playability and lack of "fun." Don't buy this game.

One of the worst games ever made

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Riding on the name of a classic, this pathetic piece of trash can't even be called a game. It is a shoddy, lousy example of programming and saying it has hideous game design would imply there actually IS any game design to it.

It was a flop when it was released for good reason. (...)

Good Game... Better Patched

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game, while great in promise even in orginal release, had many flaws. The majority of those were fixed in the recent patch, and several more are supposed to be fixed int he next patch. Because of this, Moo3 has become a much better game than once-it-was. However, it is not (to MANY people's dissapointment) Master of Orion 2.5 - it is, in many ways, a brand new game. THis game is about macromanagement, and includes many AI-driven improvements to make macromanagement the preffered way to play. This is especially clear in the MPlayer arena - if you don't like this game, try taking it MPlayer, where it truly begins to shine.

A graphically beautiful slog

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

...with a wonderful backstory. And boring gameplay. Such a shame.

ALMOST hits the mark...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

All in all, a good effort at a follow-up to Master of Orion II (MOO II), with a few problems that, if addressed, would make it nearly perfect.

Rather than go into too much detail, let me say simply that while I like the game, the following are my main complaints:

* I miss the old turn-based combat--Perhaps an option between real-time and turn-based combat is in order, maybe even the ability to switch during combat. In automated combat, it would be good to have options like "all-out, with no retreat," and to have ships actively seek the enemy instead of just sitting on screen until combat time runs out if no enemy ships are immediately within view.

* More control over build ques without having to micro-manage is essential. There is some of this now, but it would be good to be able to assign things like, "build ships until I say stop," with alerts every ten or twenty turns to see if you want to switch. Micro-managing takes forever, while auto-build doesn't give quite enough control. There needs to be a happy medium.

* When another empire surrenders to yours in a war, you get nothing of importance except an end to the war. One should be able to require surrender of all or a portion of enemy planets to your empire's control. You should also be able to demand surrender through the diplomacy screen.

I hope (but doubt) that there will be a Master of Orion IV, in which these issues are addressed.

So where are all the old reviews?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

To sum them up, this game[...]....
The graphics are outdated, it has lots of bugs and even worse a great deal of inconvenient features (that could have been so much better or already have been better in previous MoO incarnations). Gameplay is very clumsy and its also visually unattractive. Your influence as player is decidedly limited compared to MoO2. You can usually achieve good enough results by just letting the AI handle everything and just clicking the turn button.
Especially if you liked MoO2 a lot you will be sorely disappointed by MoO3 since they didn not improve but reinvent the wheel, and it ended up with a flat tyre, and I want to warn everybody not to waste their money on this like I did. And if you don't know MoO2, get that one instead, its cheaper and most people like it better...

Master of Orion 3 (Mac)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: March 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is extrememly fun to play. As being one of the people who helped to test this games marketability I have found that many of the features are very impressive.
For example, the raced of humans in this game has the Lycanthropy technology research which allows certain ground troops to transform into werewolves! yeah! Also, You can dig up fossils and use their DNA to create dinosaurs that will attack any person who invades your planets. Besides the excrutiating wait you all must go thru, I must say that this game is well worth the wait. But until it comes out, dream on my friends, dream on.

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