Anyone played Lost Empires?

[StarShadow]

Sounds like it might be good, I'll give it a try when a demo comes out.

[PsychoTechFreak]

There are 5,000 freaking stars in the universe, but no drop-down menu for selecting known planets, displaying habitable planets, or anything else: you have to scroll through each of your stars and actually mouse over each newly discovered star to find appropriate candidates for new colonies. As I mentioned earlier, the icons don’t change with zoom level, so it’s impossible to find any ships when zoomed out, other than using the scrolling list that goes through every single ship in the universe. This isn’t that big of a deal in the beginning of the game, but when you are at war and have a large empire to run, finding anything is hopeless. It gets to the point where the game is simply unplayable late in the game; it’s fortunate, then, that the game typically ends near turn 300 (which happens a lot quicker than you think).

A big NO in this case. I'd rather start another MOO3 session.

[baby_arm]

Behold our recent review.

Considering that Pollux Game Labs is a total newcomer they showed that they are able to create a very fun game. The only thing left for them to do now (regarding Lost Empire, that is), is to actually finish it! I found many things to criticize in this review, but nearly all of them basically result from the game being released in an unfinished state and unpolished. Therefore, in its current state if you really need a new space conquering game, I think you will get some enjoyment out of Lost Empire. For all others I recommend to wait for the announced remake Lost Empire: Immortals, apparently due to be out rather soon in Q1 2008.