Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

| Main Game

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)

Mac

DOS

Language Support

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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.