Master of Orion II



Emulator: Fusion + Shapeshifter
Genre: Strategic
Name: Master of Orion II
Description: This is a Civilization-like game with a futuristic ambientation, you take control of a Race chosed from a dozen or so different races, everyone with its special abilities, you can also custom your special race.
In the game you control all the aspect of the race`s life, you control how many people work in the food producing works, how many in production and how many in research works. You can build a lot of different buildings that do different things and a lot of spaceship that you can customise as you wish and then put them in combat against the enemy. As you proceed in the game your scientist discovers new weapons, new shields and computers for your ships, but also more buildings and other things like advanced form of governement and so on. There are 3 mode to win the game: You can conquer the whole universe by brute force, you can be elected President of the Galaxy by the Council or you can defeat the temible Antarans aliens and be heralded as saviour of the galaxy.
min. Configuration: 68040 25Mhz, 256 colour graphic (thousands color is better), 4x SCSI CD-Rom ( anemulated IDE CD-Rom won`t work with this game, so you must do an integral installation, that is 200+ MB of hard disk space!)
Tested on: 68060 50Mhz, Cybervision 64, 20MB of Emulated RAM, MacOS 7.6.0., 12x SCSI CD-Rom, 16x IDE CD-Rom, Fusion V 2.0.
N.B.: Shapeshifter V 3.8 refuse to run this game. The game is totally playable on my configuration, but it is a little slow during the computers turns.
Ratings: 8/10 the game is VERY good and it would had earned more...but...Its too easy! I have easiliy won it in all 3 modes at `impossible`mode. Luckly there is the chance to play multiplayer games!
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Tested by: Alessandro Bruschi
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