Is this somewhat similar to the MoO series? Ive been playing MoO3 lately, and its a big dissapointment.

Not really, it's much better than the MOO series. It is a little similar, but this game actually has a plot and storyline for you follow. It's actually a lot closer to GTA than MOO. Definately give it a try.

Steve, you rock man!
This game is freakin' awesome!
Any game that has an alien like Fwiffo of the Spathi is just great.
Thanks again!

What might be of interest is that the HOURS of conversation in this game are all voice acted and totally hilarious, though it still manages to preserve a serious atmosphere when needed. Totally awesome and thumbs up. Possibly the greatest game ever made. End of rant.

I discovered UQM about 5 months ago, it is a great bit of nostalgia from the days when Amiga MODs were awesome and I used to love going stealth with my Ilwrath and then cheap-shotting my friends :)

And for the record, MoO3 is like the most boring game ever. If per chance you are using it as a benchmark for the quality of the first two, don't. They are much better.

QUOTE: What might be of interest is that the HOURS of conversation in this game are all voice acted and totally hilarious, though it still manages to preserve a serious atmosphere when needed. Totally awesome and thumbs up. Possibly the greatest game ever made. End of rant. : END QUOTE

Star Control 3 had voice actors, SC2 was only on screen text. Sadly the Urquan Masters 'technofied' the music and, in my opinion, ruined it.

SC2 is still one fo the funniest games I ever played. :)

-Lego

Actually the new updated version of SC2 has voice-acting for everything now, and you can go back to the original music if you want (you don't HAVE to listen to the new music, that's just an option).

Personally I like the new voice acting (the alien voices are great), but you can easily turn it off if you want.

The game blows.

Kagan... You Blashphemer! Don't make God throw you into the pits of hell, because, I WILL!!

Kind of weird though... dl that 1 mb, then download another several several mb while installing from the 1 mb... why can't you just install the whole game instead of doing it in little peices...? I wasn't really expecting to have to be on the internet to dl it, so I wasn't and someone was on the phone, so I couldn't do it till now which really irked me.

This is one of my favourite series/games of all time, I never even thought to look for it to download, thank you.

Heh, I still have star control 2 and star control 3 discs :P

SC2 was one of my favorite games of all time -- I must've played it for months.

I don't remember SC1 all that much(it was quite different from 2 and 3, if I recall), and SC3 was pretty good(though not nearly as great as SC2).

First i thought it stunk, but i was determined to give it a chance, Then i thought it was boring and suddently (about the point where you meet Master Greenish) it switched from boring to Genius:D and ive been playing it since Steve posted this:D. Great game;)

are there others in the same genre?, first time ive tried anything like this.

Cool stuff!

There is no new voice acting in UQM. The voices are from the 3DO port of SC2. New to other platforms perhaps, yes.

I loved that Gaming Steve compared it to GTA, since I've had the same conclusion earlier too. GTA and SC2 have things in common but we don't see a ton of sequels for SC2 on the horizon. If only SC2 would get good sequels the same speed as GTA does. No need to revamp the engine, just write new content and minor improvements and I'm all set for $pending $ome.

Not really worth bragging about since it's not even mentioned in credits, but when the UQM project was just started, I helped out a bit on the project. It involved cleaning up the code, so I've in-directly touched every code file in UQM. I still have the almost original source for the project (barely works in PC).

This game is so cool, thanks for showing it on your site I would have never found out about this great game thx.

I played this series the first time round, they were superb games with a 'huge' feeling to them. I'm a little worried about revisiting them as time is too kind to some games :)

By far one of the best and first EPIC galaxy spanning games of the 1990's I've been playing SCII on DOS emulation every year at LAN parties when we want to bring up an oldie.

Thanks for pointing out this latest revival, i hope someone picks up on this Cult classic and makes a proper sequel.

i found star control II at a good will i went to and disk three does not work all but that disk loaded but the game still wil not work it frezzes up befor it starts.

So... as far as i can tell without having played it... it's like a space GTA but without the M/Ao rating?

I'm having some trouble installing the game. I've downloaded the installer, but when I run it and it tries to download again, it just says "Connecting..." and then gives an error, ie. it doesnt connect. I'm on the net via the firewall of my university's intranet.
Any suggestion?

P.S. SC 2 ROCKS!!

The same thing happened with me (the downloading errors) but yet the game managed to work in the end. Give it another try.

My favorite game of all time. Playing this for the first time in eight years has been pretty emotional for me. Wish they hadn't changed the hyperspace music, though... anyway, thanks to UQM for bringing this back from the near-dead.

I just finished this game. I have been waiting a long time to play this game. I use to have it for the 3DO but I sold it 5 years ago and I wish I had kept it. Last week I decided to look it up on the net and BAM there it was for download as the urquan masters. I downloaded it and the walktrough. Awesome. Thanks!

Thanks to gaming steve, Star Control II is my favorite game of all time.

How about a retro review on Star Flight and/or SC serie/UQM?

You know that SC2 is such a good game when we are all discussing it 12 years after its original release. Most games have a shelf life of 1-2 years before the general public grows tiresome of the concept.
SC2 was a brilliant mix of gaming, original storyline and arguably some of the most creative characters ever invented. The humor was a big bonus, nothing like going off the scheduled plot line and telling an alien race off. To this day it is considered by many to be one of the best games of all time. Actually I have been playing it for the fifth time for the past few days and it is just as enjoyable, each time I play it.
Time may go on but the classics NEVER go out of style.

Star Control II truly is a spectacular game. Modern games simply don't have that kind of depth, period. You know, I found the overall experince to be somewhat like Pikmin, with you venturing out into the wilderness to accumlate raw goods to increase your manpower. One quibble, though; I wish there was no time limit. I would have loved to visit every single star in the game, exploring every planet, but time simply won't allow it.

Though its been said 1000000x above i too love this game... like many ppl here i played this for the first time on my 286 when i was like... 8, though i didn't appreciate it when i first started it after i sort've matured a little and played it properly i loved the game, i wish they made the AI a bit smarter though because i find that a human player can easily destroy the computer even with match ups like the Arilou vs Illwrath (give it a go, its fun). But yes ranks as my favourite game of all time, thanks for bringing it back to the 21st century on my pentium 4 :P