In opposition to today’s great visual 3D effects, everything in MOO2 is 2D. In MOO2 the player has full control of its empire from a single screen, the sub-menus have a total depth of N-2. It’s not hard to get confused or lost in some of today’s game user interfaces. In so many games, since MOO2, you get not so streamlined menus that connect to sub-menus in not so much intuitive ways. This is undeniably one of the game’s great assets. So it is literally Master of Orion: Battle at Antares.Īll there is to the game fits in one screen. The race that is able to do this first wins. To stop their menace a race needs to find “a way” to get to the Antarans homeworld (Antares) and stop them once and for all. With time the Antaran attacks become more frequent and violent and the races will need to decide if they continue to fight each other or if they put an end to this threat. The Antarans found (somehow) a way to escape imprisonment and immediately started a terror campaign against all races in the galaxy. MOO2 back-story presents a race called Antarans that were imprisoned by the Orions race (here the connection is made to the original Master of Orion game) in a long war that devastated most of the galaxy. Nostalgia surely helps explain a bit the vote intention, nevertheless I think its important to examine the game thoroughly to try to reveal its formula to success. But what made this game so popular that after 13 years of game design innovation, better computer resources and way better available graphics no space strategy game seems to be able to surpass MOO2 success? It is true that the game represents a generation of gamers in a time where these games were a rare commodity. Released in 1996 by Microprose, Master of Orion 2 Battle at Antares is undoubtedly considered the reference for 4x space strategy games. With Master of Orion original game taking the second place with 9 votes (the other options were: SMAC: 9 votes, GalCiv2 and Sins: 8, Imperium Galactica: 6, One of the X-COM series: 5, One of the Homeworld series: 3, One of the SE Series and StarTrek BOTF: 2, Other: 3 votes, Not into Space Strategy: 1 vote, StarWars Rebellion and SOTS got both 0 votes). With 33% of the votes (27 of 83), not surprisingly, the favorite space strategy game of all time is: Master of Orion 2. The monthly poll of was clear about this for space strategy games. From time to time a game appears that revolutionizes and makes itself the standard for a gaming genre.
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