Master of Orion 2 returns (soon)

[Tampa_Gamer]

About a month ago I saw MOO3 sitting on my shelf and had recently seen several posts at Apolyton about major user-made mods/patches which supposedly made it playable. So I said, what the heck - I am 2 years older, *wiser* perhaps I was too harsh. So I proceeded to spend 2-3 hours a night, for around 20+ days, first installing about a dozen mods, then playing one game until around Turn 250+. I admit that it was a better experience (namely do to the user mods) than my experience when it first came out - but that is akin to saying I would prefer death by firing squad over drowning...still an absolute frustration b/c they had a lot of great ideas and I think ground combat is actually implemented in an *almost* cool way. Its very sad actually.