looking for a space combat game

[Raging Deadstar]

I Highly recommend the Freespace 2 Babylon 5 Total Conversion.
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/ho...ownloads.shtml

And since i'm such a Babylon 5 fan I would also recommend I Found Her, which is still in development and short, but simply excellent.
http://ifh.firstones.com/

And they're both free As for actual new games that have just been released I'm not particularly aware of any

[Alneyan]

Perhaps the Independence War games? They are the only recent games I can think of, Freespace excepted, that would be worth its grain of salt in the flight sim department (though the ships flown there aren't exactly fighters).

Other than that, I would definitively recommand the FS1 port for FS2: play Freespace 1 at the decent resolution of 1024X768. Or you could try third party campaigns, like Derelict or the Aeos (?) Affair.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

A good, independant space combat game developer: http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/index.htm

[El_Phil]

Derelict was arguably as good as the main FS2 campaign. The main reason there's still nothing to match FreeSpace is that no-ones made anything like it recently. Freelancer lacked the scale and sheer fun of charging around in any ship with dual Kaysers. Till the energy ran out...

[Alneyan]

I have always been partial to a Mara myself, with the standard double Kaysers (energy has never been much of a problem though, as few targets take more than a few hits to go down): jolly fun! And that Mara mission gives so many nice vessels to take down, all for yourself...

Still, my favourite will be the Great Hunt (I think) in FS1, where you try to catch up with You Know What. The mission can be downright easy (run like the coward you are!), or you can have some fun taking down everything on your way (destroyer included, of course), and without losing a single ship in your escort. Dofighting madness! (And hope the friendly bombers can deliver the goods...)

[EaX]

A question to all of you who played freespace 2, the first time you played the last mission (the one that the capella star goes nova) did you survive? i didn't it was unexpected i was faaaaar from the jump node...

[Suicide Junkie]

I almost got there...

15 seconds more and I think I would have made it.

[Alneyan]

I got killed while trying to protect as many ships as possible actually, so I didn't see the Thingy the first time around. Once I started flying more cautiously, I got killed by the Thingy, and before you ask, I failed to Dive! Dive! Dive! Hit your burners pilot!

[EaX]

Who me????? i would never ask such thing.... hehehehe

[PvK]

Freespace? Looks pretty, but not so great as a space combat game. Edit: Oh! I thought you meant "FreeLancer". FreeSpace was ok, but too simplistic for my tastes.

For a space combat "simulator", I would look at the Independence War series or Starshatter long before I turned to Freespace.

PvK