Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
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…
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares is a strategy developed by Simtex, released 22 November 1996 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares is
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares is a strategy game developed by Simtex and released in 1996. It was published by MacSoft Games. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares launched on 22 November 1996, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, PaRappa the Rapper and Pandemonium!.
Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, PaRappa the Rapper, Pandemonium!.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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