User Rating: 4.5 | Master of Orion III PC
Yeah I remember Starflight an old ECA game and Starflight II, I loved them both!! and actually have copies of them . As for a space based RPG off the top of my head I know there was a D&D (Gold Box) based game, i.e (Pool of Radience), it was based off the AD&D Spelljammer series, it was called "Pirates Of Inner Space" got a copy of this also somewhere buried in the archives. Moo3 has some Starflight elements in the form of the search for the Antarian "X's" which are special technological surprise packages you have to search for one of the ways to win the game, but even with this facet of the game it is in a real far off relation to Starflight, this game is mainly Stradegy based and I have found has a very poor user interface, intutive but clumbsy & bulky, the instruction manual is seriously lacking in explanations of the finer points of the game, no right click popups with info, such as what the planetary special actually "do", and they are not listed in the manual either. A real dissappointment especially for a game I have been waiting on forever. Looks real pretty though but not worth the $50 expenditure, especially with all the other really good games out on the market. On a brighter note via the grapevine there is a Starflight III in development and should be out by 4th quarter 2003 or 1st quarter 2004 check out www.starflight3.net, really hope this one goes the distance where Moo3 did not. Sarthex, sarthex@sarthex.com