OK! Now Taz is happy he did NOT buy MOO3 at full price!
Which brings up the question...is it worth postage? Come on all you MOO3 owners (with patches) is the game worth the effort now?
A review from Amazon's site:
****Transcript of MOO3 Experience****
3:05pm - *sees Moo3 on shelf in store* Ooh, I want to buy this game so much. MOO1 and 2 were all time classics and once again I'll be driving my Humans into conquest over the other space lackeys!
3:45pm *Loading screen* Ok, I see there's an instruction manual in here...hmm. Ooh, there's a little backstory deal. Hey this is actually kind of interesting...
4:00pm *still loading* Hmm...still loading. My but this is a good story. I hope the game plays good, I don't see much in the way of instructions in here. Usually that means "Tutorials" (smiles)
4:05pm Ok, done loading. Now let's see...huh? What the heck is this intro movie about? There's like 200 different things going on, and there's this guy with this thing on his chest, ick...what a weird spacey, yet undeniably psychadelic feel about it, mixed with wistful philosophical banter from the announcer.
4:07pm Ok...Main screen is up. Now let's see how this works...grrr, I hate popup window tutorials. *reads* man, this is some mundane reading. Ok, keep clicking...hmmm...I know I should be reading this but it's written in college textbook monotone.
4:10pm Hmm...it says here I have 2 Scouts and a Colony Ship in the queue...I think that's the queue. Actually it looks like there's 2 queues here. Huh?
4:12pm Oh these popup thingies are annoying *hits cancel*...there we go. Huh? There's still a million popups...No, I don't want to research Policy Making, I want to get Fusion Beams.
4:18pm Good grief...I don't care about you anymore Sitrep. *Sighs* I miss the Sean Connery guy who gave me those science reports. "One click only, Vasily"
4:25pm Hmm...I've explored all these stars, but....whoa! Ancient Battle Damage! Now that sounds cool...hmm. Wonder what that is. Well, I'll just access the Encyclopedia thingie...*searches* funny...there's nothing about it in here. Strange...sure does sound cool though. Now if I can just colonize the planet.
4:34pm *Sighs* I can't seem to colonize this fool planet...no right click menus, no order giving to ships. What the heck? Ah well, I'll just let my scouts roam around some more.
4:36pm Huh? An enemy ship over my home planet? Egads!...hmm...Battle...No, I don't want to Watch it, I want to Control it. *moments pass* ...what? ... Engage dangit!
4:38pm What the heck is going on here? This guy is still over my planet and I can't seem to attack him. Grrr...well, I guess he's ok there, doesn't seem to be doing anything anyways.
4:45pm Hmm...this is really kind of boring. All I'm doing is clicking the Turn button. This Sitrep thing is getting annoying, it keeps telling me I have colonies, but I haven't sent out any Colony ships. Hmm...I wonder. The annoying "tutorial" said something about the computer doing some stuff for me...
4:46pm Oh, I remember. The Planets button. I just click on that and.....?? Where the heck did all these colonies come from?? I never gave such orders...what?
4:50pm Good grief! I didn't know all these planets were mine! Why weren't they color coded like on MOO2 to let me know where my boundaries were? Oh God I have a headache
5:00pm Great, now I'm over some colony named GME-351A or something. What kind of civilization name is that? Oh well...it keeps asking me if I want to attack, but I only have 1 scout there. Oh ..., go ahead and attack, what's it matter at this point? Hmm...hey, this looks promising...a rotating 3D planet...and explosions! But where's my ships? What the he-- is with this menu? No I don't want to disband the freakin' task force!
5:05pm *Head in hands* Oh my God, how did this game get out the door? I haven't seen anything this buggy since the original Outpost way back when, and that had a cooler intro. *Sighs and checks receipt*...great. No returns, just exchange. Oh God what was I thinking?
5:10pm *MOO 2 Loading* Ah, now this is more like it! Ah, hiya Mr. Connery, why yes I'd like to research Fusion Beams, thank you very much!
EDITTED TO INCLUDE ABOVE REVIEW - at least the reviewer didn't ENTIRELY lose his sense of humor!
[ May 28, 2003, 03:58: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]
Re: Moo3 is a shareware now
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