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July 6th, 2005, 02:12 PM
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Re: looking for a space combat game
The developers released the sourcecode of Freespace 2 to the public and there has been vast improvements to FS2_open, and there are many multiplayer missions now.
But there ought to be some game that rivals it after almost 6 years, shouldn't it??!?
I haven't bought any game for a long time and haven't looked into new games that's been published, so I'd be glad for any tips.
Freelancer, hmm, will look up some reviews.
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July 6th, 2005, 02:13 PM
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Re: looking for a space combat game
Freespace was the KOTH and still is. God I miss that game. To bad about Interplay though. 
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July 6th, 2005, 02:17 PM
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Re: looking for a space combat game
We should make up some FS2 multiplayer maps based on famous SE4 battles 
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July 6th, 2005, 03:01 PM
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Re: looking for a space combat game
FS2_open? Where?
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July 6th, 2005, 09:15 PM
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Re: looking for a space combat game
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But there ought to be some game that rivals it after almost 6 years, shouldn't it??!?
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Why? The heart and soul have been torn out of the majority of the game industry. |
July 8th, 2005, 06:04 PM
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Re: looking for a space combat game
Why? The heart and soul have been torn out of the majority of the game industry.
Too true.
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespac...009bc8bff29180
There you can find Freespace 2 The Source Code Project(fs2_open) and much more, including a Babylon 5 total conversion of FS2.
I have to agree, Freespace 2 is really excellent. The only other space sim I enjoyed as much is Privateer 2.
Freelancer 2 had its moments, having an especially good atmosphere, cool asteriod fields, and interesting star systems(though the scale was wrong), but the game itself is good for little else than short blow-em-up trips, which is fun only for a little while.
The only space sim I'm looking forward to is X3. What X2 lacked was a good flight model, and hopefully X3 will fix that, along with lots of other improvements.
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July 9th, 2005, 06:30 AM
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Re: looking for a space combat game
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 |
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