Game Comparrisons.

Atrocities · #1 June 2nd, 2001, 12:03 AM

How would you rank the following games?

SEIV (Space Empires 4)
BOTF (Birth Of The Federation)
IGII (Imperium Galactica 2)
MOOII (Masters Of Orion 2)

For me, the ranking would be a simple matter of likeability.

BOTF = 8 (Game play and graphics)
SEIV = 7 (Creatability, depth of play)
MOOII = 4 (AI)
IGII = 4 (Ground based assualts, graphics.)

Atrocities · #2 June 2nd, 2001, 12:34 AM

#3 June 2nd, 2001, 01:20 AM

I played MOO then MOOII a lot but finally found it too easy even on impossible. Also I got tired of the AI cheating so much. Tactical combat was great, especially ship initiative. I used the race pick that got all the techs in an area researched, heavy gravity, and subterranean. I really hated the Saccra, seems like they bred like flies and were usually the race that gave me the most problems. But I guess this is not the right forum to talk about MOO. It is dead and gone so far as I am concerned. SE IV is the game of my dreams!
You forgot to mention Ascendacy - it was ok for a few months play.
Although not a SPACE empire game, the Civilization series was pretty good too. In all I got a couple years play out of that.

Master Belisarius · #4 June 2nd, 2001, 02:28 AM

Hey Atrocities I respect your opinion, but I really hated BOTF!
Bad interfase (with many colonies is a nightmare try to manage your empire, the map is pathetic), worst customization (you can not create a ship design for example), really short tech tree, the tactical combat is very limited.

So far, I think that SEIV is the better (well I like SEIII too, in some aspects was better than SEIV!).

God Emperor · #5 June 2nd, 2001, 02:52 AM

I mainly played MOO2 against friends so I rate it a 8.5 - tactical combat was great! I loved the Sakkrans! Once I had conquered them, I exported them to all of my planets as their subterranean ability increased the living place on any planet where they were present. My friends were stunned the first time I pulled that trick on them!
We still reminisce about some of the battles we fought. Played MOO2 solidly for over two years - even beats the amount of time that I spent on Civilisation.

SE4 rates a 9.

BOTF was very pretty and atmospheric but I only rate it a 5 as the AI stank and the game was very limited. Ascendancy was in the same Category - impressive music and graphics, but, that was it.

Never played IG2 - IG1 put me off and a couple of friends grated IG2 poorly.

Atrocities · #6 June 2nd, 2001, 03:40 AM

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Hey Atrocities I respect your opinion, but I really hated BOTF!

It had a lot of faults, but overall, once you gave it a chance, the game was quite good. I especially loved the ships and bases as they provided me with the frame work to build my own unique star trek race set for SEIV.