I said "space titles". I didn't say 4X.
If it was released in its current state? Of course it would. Graphics are 20 years old, it doesn't even support mouse scroll.
If it was updated to the current graphics and UI standards, but the rest of the features would stay the same, I predict it would be quite successful. And you know what? We don't even have to guess, because someone is doing exactly that right now:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/298050/
There is a test? Do we have to study? What are the questions?
It has one of the best tech trees in 4X - you have to choose 1 of 3 techs, you can't have everything. You can hope to steal other techs from someone else, but that's not guaranteed. Or you could sacrifice a lot and just be creative. Ship design offers a lot of choice. You can make tons of cheap tiny ships that can fire one missile before they are destroyed (and hope enemy don't have enough guns to fire at ALL your ships before they are overwhelmed by your numbers). Or you can create elite ship that can destroy 10 enemy ships before taking damage. Or, you can use your marines to capture enemy ships and use them against them.
You can manage your planets with quite a lot of detail, you can directly command your fleets during battles.
There is no other game that has all those feature and is still fun to play. SotS1 came very close, with its dynamic tech trees, ship design and real time battles. If SotS2 was the thing that was promised to us, it would be the next MOO2. Sadly, it wasn't. Other 4Xs do not have one or more of those features - either no battles, or no colony management or no ship design. MOO2 has it all and those things are in a very good balance. You can manage important colonies, and set the rest of them to Auto. Colony management in Ascendancy was fun, until you had 10 planets and still had to build everything yourself. Ascendancy had an amazing music though.
If I was the only one saying MOO2 was the best, I would believe you. The thing is, nearly everyone is comparing all new space strategy games to MOO2. Most reviews do that. MOO2 is the gold standard of space 4X.
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