It works and it is perfectly sellable even in its early stage. Wargaming’s Master of Orion feels and plays like a crossing between Endless Space (in terms of graphics) and the old Master of Orion (in terms of gameplay).
Thankfully, this was not yet another case of such failed thinking if you have a winning horse, don’t change it. Too many gaming studios make a mistake and try to reinvent the hot water. It is obvious that the creators of Master of Orion wanted the game to be exactly like Master of Orion 2 (the reason why I won’t be mentioning Master of Orion 3 in this article is plain and simple – it was a horrible mess of a game that was a huge insult to good taste and to the legacy it was supposed to uphold). Ok, the suspense is off, now we can calm down and examine the game in more detail.
Now, after having had the early access version in my hands for couple of weeks, I feel confident to say that, after all these years, it seems we have a worthy Master of Orion sequel. Would they know how to create a game on this model? What will the DLC policy be? How about the final retail price? But most important of all, is Master of Orion going to be a success? Upon hearing that was going to make a pay-to-play game, I was both curious and a bit suspicious. Unfortunately there was also a mess of a game called Master of Orion 3, but we do not talk about it here. But the legacy they created carried farther then anyone from them may have anticipated, the first and second part of Master of Orion games being heralded as the creators of the 4x genre ( eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate). Old names, by all means, Simtex closed down in 1997 and Microprose eventually faded into obscurity. I played the first two games at the time they were released, in 19 respectively, developed by Simtex and published Microprose. Let me make one disclousreclear right of the bat I am a huge Master of Orion fan. This is not a final review, but simply a state of the game at the early point of its early access phase. The game is still not finished, there are some features still missing and we can be sure that things will be changed, balanced or removed entirely. IMPORTANT: This is an early access preview.
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