Master Of Orion 3 for Windows

Pros: Provided me with a few hours of entertainment.
Cons: It's just another game, nothing special.

The long awaited sequel to Master of Orion 2 is finally here! It was seven years in the making, and after you've played it a while you may find yourself asking what they have been doing for the last seven years.

Gameplay

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Pros: Large galaxies, multiple races and complex ship design pique the interest, but…
Cons: Too massive for effective control, takes forever to make headway, gets BORING!!!

As a long-term addict of the first two Masters of Orion games, I had high hopes for MOO3. When my new game came in, I eagerly ripped the box open and installed the disks. I immediately went to the web and downloaded the v1.02 patch. I use a standard ...

Pros: Pleasant randomly generated galaxy. Planet make-up pleasingly complex and varied.
Cons: Crippled AI, Barely functional game features, extremely limited player control, laughable battle mode, feels incomplete.

Few games in recent years even come close to the anticipation level among fans of a genre than the long awaited third in the classic Master of Orion series. For what seems like a year now the release was always "just around the corner", with a...

Pros: None. Just another strategy game.
Cons: Dreadful manual, no real rt combat control, bad planet and opponent AI.

"THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!!!" -Khan Singh

Usually, I have a friend of mine use his T3 line and usenet account just download me games for free. However, in a moment of guilt and impatience, I bought this game and used the No CD crack. I wonder...

Pros: Silicoids.. death spores.. need I say more
Cons: linear movement, feels stretched out or longer than it should be

This game gets better as the campaign progresses. Being an avid Master of Orion fan since I was a child, I was thrilled to see this sequel. It is however slow to begin and well, WAY too long. Though it gets better with time, one does not want to invest ...

Pros: Game's AIs handle boring elements that shouldn't be there in the first place.
Cons: Watered-down combat & graphics, poor in-game encyclopedia, and much less...

All the effort in this game seems to have been put into expanding elements that only a demented bean counter would want to deal with in the first place.
Where effort should have been put into improving ground combat, AI management, diplomacy...

Pros: Lots of game time for the money. Interesting game that doesn't get boring.
Cons: Whoever wrote the manual had no idea how to explain things to people.

If you are new to space conquest games....ignore the other reviews and buy this game. The price is now right for it at $20 and it's worth every penny. I never played any of the previous Master of Orion games so I guess I dont have anything to complain a ...

Pros: Nice "looking" GUI.
Cons: The "DirectX surface not available" error gets old pretty quick.

Here we have a perfect example of what happens when you don't really care about what shape the game is in, just get it out the door. To say this is a "release" version fails to do justice to any real beta test conducted by legitamate game...

Pros: It's the next MOO
Cons: Many, See below

I've had this game for two months. I am a MOO fan and a space empire game fan in general. Faults of ...