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• gamedeal user

  Oct 11, 2021

  The greatest 4X game, bar none, and one of the best games ever period. No other game comes close. Once you get into it, it's like doing crack. And then you get the 1.50 fan patch with randomizer options and it becomes meth. Art style is amazing and holds up, music is absolutely classic and extremely catchy, and the gameplay is simple enough that, even if you go all out with micromanagement, it doesn't feel repetitive. Indie developers and whoever ends up with the MOO rights needs to take notes from this. Don't bother reinventing the wheel. Just remaster MOO 2 with 4k graphics, larger galaxies, higher player counts, modern networking options, and faster research/tech/pop growth options to speed up online games. Don't add unnecessary micromanagement, don't add a bunch of complex systems, and don't make it into a giant excel spreadsheet. Do that, and the game is a steal at $100. Since that won't happen though, $6 is an absurdly generous price for a priceless game.
• Katanamazing

  Jul 23, 2022

  My grandpa complained about the cheating computer in this game until the day he died.
• rscain42

  Jul 11, 2023

  a great 2 player game. sit and play on 1 computer.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2016

  The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be. Bret "Hit Man" Hart approves!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2016

  Enough good things can not be said about Master of Orion 2. Even though it came out in the 90s, modern 4x games only hope to be a fraction as good as MOO2. Master of Orion 2 is a timeless 4x with a near perfect balance of features, options, events, and challenges that will keep you coming back for more years later even. My original disc has probably spent more time in the CD tray of my old Win95 laptop than it has in the CD case. If you even think you might enjoy 4x games, get this...
• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2016

  This game was made in 1996. 20 years after it is still one of the best (if not THE BEST) 4X on market. If you are a 4X fan and didn't play this one - DO IT, JUST DO IT!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2016

  Still the crowned king of space 4x games. The age shows a bit, like the first grey hairs on an aging monarch, but the gameplay and the amount of options you have are superior to every other game of this genre you'll ever play (with the possible exception of Master of Magic). Never cross the Klackons!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 1, 2016

  This game is so awesome it will resurrect dead puppies. Okay not really, but it really is one of the best PC games I've ever played. It's engrossing and immersive even today, I played over 14 hours over just the last weekend. The addiction returns quickly my friends. I bought the new MOO game, but out of pure nostalgic bliss spent my whole weekend playing this. Haven't even installed the new one yet.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 3, 2016

  One word sums it all up: masterpiece There is nothing more to say.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 3, 2016

  This is a simple, yet 100% effective space empire simulation. It's got it all, heroes, alien races, ship design, colony management, espionage, diplomacy, research, exploration and explotation. You will colonize planets, invade planets, bombard planets, or destroy planets. You'll go from researching technology to create farms in planets with no atmosphere to developing the means to turn a radioactive planetoid into a Gaia class homeworld for your race to live in. You'll meet telephathic races, smart races, dumb races, mineral races, cyborgs, cat people and maybe even the Phobos leather godesses cousins. If you like them, you can ally with them. Or you can destroy their ships, enslave their population, and exterminate them. Or go anywhere in betwen. You could be the next galactic chancellor. Or you could be the last man standing. You could steal Orion's secrets for yourself. You can even invade other dimensions in your endless quest to crush aliens like bugs. Your marines will take out enemy forces, colonies, rebellions and even fight enemy crews if you happen to board your opponents ships. Would you build a doomstar to take the heat onto their homeworld, or fortify your own worlds while you hire spies and terrorists to dismantle their planets from within ? Who knows, they may blame someone else. You could even hire that telepath hero to help with the efforts. The amount of choice in this game is astounding. Only two cons for me : 1 Turn based combat is excellent at the beginig and middle game. On the later stage, where you have 40 vs 38 battle regularly and each ship has to take a turn, you'd rather click auto-resolve. 2 Diplomacy is a bit unpredictable at times, then other times you can just trick the cpu into giving all away. Other than that, this game is *for me* superior to every other space empire strategy game except perhaps it's predecesor, Master of Orion, but that, is a matter of taste.