Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
Genres:
Strategy
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes:
Science fiction
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Perspective:
Bird view / Isometric
Game modes:
Single player
Multiplayer
Released on:
31/10/1996
Platforms:
PC (Microsoft Windows)
DOS
Mac
Language Support
▶Involved Companies:
Simtex
Developer
MacSoft Games
Publisher
Wargaming.net
Publisher
MicroProse Software, Inc.
Publisher
Summary
Master of Orion 2 also known as MOO2 is considered the classic 4x turn based strategy game set in space. The game has a kind of cult status and even by to days standards is still only matched in game play by very few of its competitors.
History
Long before the time in which the game is set, two extremely powerful races, the Orions and the Antarans, fought a war that devastated most of the galaxy. The victorious Orions, rather than exterminate the Antarans, imprisoned them in a pocket dimension before departing the galaxy, leaving behind a very powerful robotic warship, the Guardian, to protect their homeworld. Some time after the game starts, the Antarans, having broken out of their prison dimension, begin to send increasingly powerful fleets against the players' colonies, to destroy them rather than to invade. The only way they can be stopped is to carry the battle to their home universe through a Dimensional Portal.
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