Conquer the Universe is Microprose 's newly re-released bundle of four of its flagship games. Terror from the Deep , representing Microprose 's attempt to squeeze one last drop of fortune from four of the strategy games most responsible for the gaming titan's success. The four games are packaged individually on four seperate CD's. Each CD contains a version of the game with the most recent patch applied. Since their original releases, each of these games have seen a series of patches, with the current version offering a relatively bug-free experience.
Installation is quite painless with a full hard disk install option available for each game.
To save money, Microprose has skimped out on printed manuals, placing them instead on the CD in Adobe Acrobat format. You can read the manuals online through the bundled Acrobat program, or print them out and read them at your leisure. Few of these subsequent games, however, have managed to reproduce MOO 's winning combination of playability and depth, balanced perfectly for an addictive, challenging strategy experience. The game places you in command of one of ten unique alien races, and allows you to guide their growth and development. Throughout the course of the game, you will explore and colonize new planets, interact with other sentient races, and search for the mysterious planet Orion, fabled to be the source of great power and knowledge.