Lord of Rigel released a MOO2 style tactical demo yesterday. It plays a lot like MOO2's tactical if mixed with a skirmish setup like the Total War games.

They also launched a Kickstarter yesterday that seems to be slowly but surely coming along.

In any way related to the project? ;)

Anyway here is the link to the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhombusstudios/lord-of-rigel

The good things: MoO is a tried-and-tested formula, the project has already progressed and a Demo is available.

The potentially bad things: Do we really need another MoO 2 remake? And in which ways will it be better or will it be worse? Not many detailed information is given on the KS page (the number of races is not really that relevant for the fun of the game). So maybe playing the demo can answer that. But I guess it is really difficult to make a MoO 2 clone which is better than MoO 2 itself.