Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

November 22, 1996·Single player, Multiplayer
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Ratings

89
User Score
71 ratings
89
Total Score
71 combined

About

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.

Storyline

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.

Release Dates

PlatformDate
DOSNov 22, 1996
PC (Microsoft Windows)Nov 22, 1996
PC (Microsoft Windows)Dec 16, 1996
DOSDec 16, 1996
MacSep 24, 1997

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Screenshots

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Game Info

Developer
Simtex
Publisher
MacSoft Games, Wargaming.net, MicroProse Software, Inc.
Release Date
November 22, 1996
Collection
Master of Orion
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric

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Platforms

PC (Microsoft Windows)MacDOS

Genres

StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)

Themes

Science fiction4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

Game Modes

Single playerMultiplayer

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