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This thread has been linked to the game 'Master of Orion III'.
In America at least. Reviews range from giving it 92% on IGN who say it's "one of the most compelling strategy games I've played in years.", to giving it 50% on gamesdomain who say that it's "Hard to play and nearly impossible to appreciate".
I have to wait another 9 days to buy it, proving beyond doubt that the world is against me.
I have to wait another 9 days to buy it, proving beyond doubt that the world is against me.
They appear to have almost entirely ruined it. I've played about 6 games so far, and never bothered to actually finish any. My PV's seem to have an infatuation with building troop ships but no troops to put in them, the control system is nowhere near intuitive and the manual is a joke. I'm not going to take it back, but it isn't the next great step I was hoping for.
MOO3
I eagerly anticipated the arrival of the new MOO. I had been playing IG2 & Haegemonia so I thought that MOO3 would be the next big game./
What a total disappointment. The only real slick thing is the packaging. The game feel and play belongs to the past. The battles are a joke as is the control over them. The graphics are basic. The game play itself is laborious and I really did not care in the end who won.
There is no sense of involvement. You do not get drawn into the game and certainly the cover notes setting out how intense , colossal, beautiful etc is total tosh.
Do not but unit it is in the cheap bin
K
I eagerly anticipated the arrival of the new MOO. I had been playing IG2 & Haegemonia so I thought that MOO3 would be the next big game./
What a total disappointment. The only real slick thing is the packaging. The game feel and play belongs to the past. The battles are a joke as is the control over them. The graphics are basic. The game play itself is laborious and I really did not care in the end who won.
There is no sense of involvement. You do not get drawn into the game and certainly the cover notes setting out how intense , colossal, beautiful etc is total tosh.
Do not but unit it is in the cheap bin
K
Does it have any graphical thingys - as in battles shown in real time or whatever?
Christ, Quarter to Three really laid into it.
I'm still going to buy it though. Large pages of stats don't bother me, and I'm not desperately bothered about the graphics. The only thing that really might ruin it for me is if the AI really is as bad as various reviews I've read have claimed.
I'm still going to buy it though. Large pages of stats don't bother me, and I'm not desperately bothered about the graphics. The only thing that really might ruin it for me is if the AI really is as bad as various reviews I've read have claimed.
Ah. Master Of Orion 3 i'm guessing.
Moo3?
Quarter To Three slated it as well. Very harshly. You may want to check it out, if you haven't already.
http://www.quartertothree.com/reviews/moo3/moo3-1.shtml
I'm not so sure I'm going to buy this now, to be honest. Definitely not without playing it first, at any rate.
http://www.quartertothree.com/reviews/moo3/moo3-1.shtml
I'm not so sure I'm going to buy this now, to be honest. Definitely not without playing it first, at any rate.
In America at least. Reviews range from giving it 92% on IGN who say it's "one of the most compelling strategy games I've played in years.", to giving it 50% on gamesdomain who say that it's "Hard to play and nearly impossible to appreciate".
I have to wait another 9 days to buy it, proving beyond doubt that the world is against me.
I have to wait another 9 days to buy it, proving beyond doubt that the world is against me.