While I'm sending out the prizes, since there was so much surprise at the inclusion of MOO3, I figured I'll explain :-)

In my opinion, MOO3 is a good game, despite what everyone says. I never used to read game reviews, so when I got it on release date, I didn't know that everyone hated it. I noticed that the interface was pretty crappy, and the game in general was fairly slow, but I had plenty of time and didn't mind working around the crappy interface. The various AI-assistant options (automatic colony development plans, one-click colony founding, etc) took a lot of the burden off of the interface awkwardness once one learned how to use them properly, and there was enough development, research, diplomacy, combat (although I felt that this was the weakest part of the game), and so forth to keep me quite interested. I think that overall, I spent the most time with MOO3 out of the whole series.

It also helped that I really like the starlane concept. The way star systems become absolutely strategically critical is really fun, and is something I miss now when I play the other games in the series. I think they could have gone even further with that concept (ie, parts of your empire that are isolated from each other can't share resources and reinforcements and so forth), but it was a great start in my opinion. Of course, many people disagree and absolutely despise star lanes for some reason.

I should post this as a MOO3 review...

Edit: prizes sent! Except Dragobr's, pending a game decision :-)