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Master Of Orion 2 - Battle at Antares

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Produced in 1996, this game runs both in Windows 95 and DOS.

Here it is 13 years later, and I still come back over and over to this game as one of my favorites. In fact, I keep an old Windows 98 laptop just so I can avoid difficulties in playing this game on new computers.

The basic plot is you are a ruler of a space faring empire. But you are not alone. The galaxy is populated by other space faring races of roughly similar technology levels.

You start at a primitive level of technology and through the course of the game, must explore the galaxy, build your civilizations, build a war fleet, and deal or battle with alien races. To make matters worse, this pesky advanced race known as the Ataran's pop up from time to time and cause havoc.

The game is very customizable as to the galaxy you set up, your race, fleets and battles, etc. You can dive in and control things in detail every turn, or you can automate some features to concentrate on the core of running your empire. It is very similar to Master of Orion 1, but it has been expanded to add a lot of options. And yes, you still have to deal with that highly advanced lone battleship in the Orion system.

Being released in 1996, the graphics still hold up well. I highly recommend this game as one of the best turn based science fiction empire building games ever made.

I've been playing MoO2 ever since it came out, must've been about 15 years ago. Oh, I don't play it as much as I used to but, I still want a copy on hand just in case.

MoO2 is an engaging space romp, a Civ-style game based on exploration, technology, war, diplomacy, and resource management. Pick one of the default species or create your own. Research tech to suit your interests in offense, defence, and culture. Sweet-talk the others or slaughter them all-- play with a friend and/or against the computer.

The GUI is spot-on brilliant, it always has what you want at your fingertips.

Warning, it can be tricky to get the Windows version to run on some newer versions of Windows. However, it also includes the DOS version (!) which works well under DosBox or DosEmu, on Windows or Linux.

This is a great game, it has a good interface and tons of replay value(I still pop it in from time to time). The 3rd game isn't very good but this one is. If you like Strategy/Sci-fi and/or don't have as much memory or resources to devote to gaming - GET THIS GAME.

Master of Orion 2 also known as MOO2 is considered the first true 4x turn based strategy game set in space. The game has a kind of cult status and even by to days standards is still only matched in game play by very few of its competitors.

Features: Single Player Campaign, Multi-player Option, Hot Seat, 13 Predesigned Alien Races, Explore & Colonize, Manage Resources, Strategic or Tactical Combat, 200+ Technologies, Random Events.

They just don`t make them like this any more.

I still play this game. I bought this right as it came out in the 90's and it is still one of my favorites!

Great game!!... if you can get it to play. The patches that USED TO enable it to work with newer operating systems are becoming VERY RARE and thusly hard to find. AWESOME REPLAY VALUE. Infinatley customizable gameplay and races to be played. There are several ways to change the difficulty alone Examples include: Changing the overall map size. Changing the number of opponents played against. Changing the amount/or type of resources available. BUT GOOD LUCK FINDING THE PROPER PATCHES/.dll FILES NECESSARY.

This game is the culprit when it comes to me, trying to reinvent the wheel and get it installed on my PowerBook G4. Not so fast! You need to have OS 9 installed in order to run MoO 2 on the PowerBook.
Now You should get an idea about how much this game is appreciated if someone tries to install different operating systems for a 15 year old game. Because of all the hassle I decided to buy the PC version and run it on my little HP Pavilion. It works like a charm there. It is one of the best simulations ever. As it was ahead of its time in 1996, it still delivers tons of gaming delight. I never tried MoO 3, but MoO 2 is a very good game for the most obvious reason. You need some brains to play it - it is a rather intelligent game. ;-)

Perfect upgrade to Master of Orion 1. If you never played Master of Orion 1, I would recommend starting with that game. This game virtually complicates (in a good way) every aspect of the original. You can mod your ships more, instead of just colonizing a star system, you now colonize within a star system. You can now custom mod your race. Theres a food element now. You build up the city within your planet now. There's a more diverse tech tree. The basic concept is 100% the same. Another thing I like is that if you put it on hard. its really hard. If you put it on easy its really easy. You get what you ask for. Also, if you want to play the game in one sitting, you can make the game smaller, if you want to put tons of hours into one game, you can make the game bigger. Both Master of Orion 1 and 2 have this capability.

I played this for hours a day regularly when I was about 10-12. In this day and age the graphics are nothing to wow over but I remember very fondly all the time spent beating this game in every way on every level. It was a good challenge, and not just in a hack and slash sort of way!

It is okay but I realy want to edit star lane connections and have more flexability in race stats. But is is a good game over all It gave me a week or more worth of fun and I like to keep it in my game archive of old cooler games.