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Detailed Preview of Masters of Orion 3

Posted by Hemos on from the believe-have-it-out-soon dept.

garibald writes "Constantine, the head developer, promised that there would be a detailed preview of the game this week, and here it is at Apolyton. Constantine also said the game was in it's final regression testing. Here's hoping that the game will be out by the end of this month." Oh, Lordie, if I counted the hours I spent playing MOO and MOO2 - I'm really looking forward to this one.

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  1. favorite part by prichardson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My favorite part about MOO 3 is the real time ship-ship combat. It always seemed anoying and wrong to have turn based combat. Turn based strategy is fine, but after playing a few RTS's I realized that there are just some really cool things you cant pull off in turn-based.

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  2. Er..what kind of game is it? by rufusdufus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After reading the gobblygook article and looking at the race types, I went in search of something that would tell me what the game play is like.
    After seeing this screenshot , I decided I just didn't care.

    The article and the screenshot together just make the game look mush-brained.

    1. Re:Er..what kind of game is it? by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It would have been nice if they'd got a reviewer who'd played MOO and MOO2. Just copying race descriptions out of the manual isn't exactly a review.

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    2. Re:Er..what kind of game is it? by nehril · · Score: 3, Insightful

      no kidding. this "detailed preview" offers zero useful information about how the game plays. the writing is some of the worst I've encountered:

      The purpose here was to expediently observe these base cultures' histories in, as the manual states, "an effort to gain insight into their own dilemma" (Page 23). The goal was to reproduce the elements that led to the Elder Civilizations' conflict on a smaller scale. Whether such research led to discoveries sought by the Orions is unknown. What is known is that these pain-staking efforts would lend rise to no less then five distinct races. Two of these, the Klackon and Psilon, are playable civilizations in MoO3. Another race, the Humans, adamantly rejected suggestions that they too would found their origins within the universal petrie-dishes of Orion whims.

      the purpose of this article is to expose the base underworkings of a twisted syntactical constructive that passed the a spell checker, but no passing the whims of sensibility-making.

      it's just page after page of ridiculous race backstory. for great justice, does anybody have any idea how the game PLAYS? is it 3d? what are the new weapons and ships like? do you still have a cool movie clip that plays when you fire that mega planet destroying weapon? Do you have to let battles between large fleets run overnight because the engine bogs down?

  3. Not really a review. by jericho4.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This 'review' is just a cut'n'paste from the manual section describing the species, plus screenshots of the species description screens. Oh, and he throws in a screenshot of the logo selection screen. Some info about, ya know, gameplay and such would have been nice.

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  4. Great Series, don't let the screenies fool you by Alcimedes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The MOO series is probably one of the best strategy series of all time.

    it is constantly recommened by long time gamers who have experienced the joy that was MOO1 and MOO2. to put it in perspective, it is the sole reason i keep a DOS machine around, just to play this one stupid game. :)

    Some other player's opinions can be found all over the 'net, and they love the MOO series.

    and it's not just the fans, game sites constantly wax nostalgic about the MOO series as seen here

    the third title, which is close to Gold at this point looks to be another great game in a great series, although it's not going to have the best graphics ever, it will likely have excellent game play, if it's anything like its predecessors.

    don't let the anemic review above be your sole example of MOO3, there are lots of better ones around (although i don't have links on-hand)

  5. Re:Er..what kind of game is it? (Part 1) by tigress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The observant reader might notice the subtle hints, like "PART 1: LET'S MEET THE PLAYERS" and suspect that (surprise) there might be OTHER parts in the article, perhaps posted LATER. And that those OTHER parts of the article might contain more information about OTHER parts of the game. =)

  6. Re:Favorite MOO2 Memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful


    I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.