Master of Orion 2 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.
Master of Orion 2 is a strategy, 4x and turn-based game
developed by SimTex
and published by Wargaming Labs.
Released on February 25th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 3 languages: English, French and German.
It has received 1,569 reviews of which 1,514 were positive and 55 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
- Processor: 1 GHz
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7
- DirectX: Version 7.0
- Storage: 161 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 7 Compatible
MacOS
- OS: Mac: OS X 10.6.8 or later
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz+
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 64MB of video memory
- Storage: 161 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM, OpenGL compatible
- Storage: 161 MB available space
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It's a classic space empire building game. Nowadays it mostly presents historical interest, the UI is too much of a hassle to deal with. But then again, while playing it you will weep about most modern similar games failing to deliver the galaxy that feels so varied and alive. If you do play it I recommend applying 1.50 unofficial patch and keeping the difficulty low. I'd also recommend trying Remnants of the Precursors - a free remake/spritual successor of Master of Orion 1 and probably the only modern game that delivers a similar feeling of infinite variation and well-tuned AI. Be aware that I'm not praising capabilities of a very simple AI that had to perform well on hardware made 30 years ago. I'm talking about the way the mechanics and computer players using them are tuned. It's very sad that later games, even the ones emulating MoO2, don't pick up all the tricks this game plays to make you feel like you're operating in a living universe and not just doing citibuilding among other empires that may become important once you go to war with them.
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The Legend. The question remains: How is this so good? Endless replay value—even after mastering Impossible mode with ease. I tweaked the DOSBox settings for convenience, but it still plays just like it did back in the day. 9.98/10
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Master of Magic & master of Orion II are meanwhile my favourites due to them are both made by microprobe & Syntex ✨💫
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old game but a time-eater.... good for if your bored and want to just pass the time
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This is probably one of my all time favorite games. There's diplomacy. Obviously war. It has a fairly complex tech tree for when the game was created. The point is there are multiple ways to win at the game. Even by taking over the galaxy by war. There's multiple approaches. There's some cons. It's a bit too easy to win with diplomacy. But it can be kinda fun to also have everyone turn against you. Or create allies. The game is multi-player. Allowing up to 8 people to play. However... The turn based style makes that a bit time consuming. If you play on the most difficult mode. You can actually construct a war ship so powerful it litteraly crashes the game. So.. long games in the most difficult mode can be challenging to complete simply because you do too much damage. But there's ways around this problem. You can create several weapon banks so that you don't do all the damage at once. Or just don't build a ship that powerful and compensate by bringing more ships. I do like live play, but there's something about this chess like approach to the game I like. You get a lot more time to really plan out your strategy. You can play as any of the races. I usually prefer to do custom. But I have beat the game before as every race. Some are of course harder, but all races are winnable. However, one disappointment I have is that the version in steam is not the better released version back when the game was initially released in 1996. It does seem to have fixed a couple of the bugs. However, they adjusted a few of the race traits. As well as some of the ships equipment and the colony structures. To the point it kinda breaks this version of the game. It's still very playable. But the game requires different tactics than the better one in 1996. One of my favorite feudal warlord race builds is not possible to create anymore even though it's not over powered. It's actually quite crippled and it's why I like it. And some of the items in the mid portion of the tech tree have new constraints that frankly don't make a lot of sense. Like there's a few ship components you used to be able to add to mid sized ships without too much issue in the original version of the game. It's obvious those components are intended to be more useful towards the end of the game. And they were in the original version. But being able to add them to some mid level ships meant that ships you created towards the beginning of the game could still be useful towards the end of the game as support ships. Now.. the game just put arbitrarily high constraints on those components to make them impossible or very difficult to use in medium sized support ships. So there's a moment in mid game where all your smaller & medium ships become completely useless. And your colonies are completely defenseless because of it. So you have to build capital ships early or your going to loose. It's just a bad decision on the part of whoever changed those dynamics IMO. So while the game is worth playing. I think I'll stay with my original 1996 copy and not the one on steam.
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Master of Orion 2 is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam.
Master of Orion 2 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 5.99€ on Steam.
Master of Orion 2 received 1,514 positive votes out of a total of 1,569 achieving an impressive rating of 9.14.
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Master of Orion 2 was developed by SimTex and published by Wargaming Labs.
Master of Orion 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Master of Orion 2 is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Master of Orion 2 is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Master of Orion 2 offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Master of Orion 2 offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
Master of Orion 2 does not currently offer any DLC.
Master of Orion 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Master of Orion 2 does not support Steam Remote Play.
Master of Orion 2 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
SimTex
Publisher
Wargaming Labs
Release
25 Feb 2016
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