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giuff...@softhome.net (Hawk) wrote in news:3e340129.10992606
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> Goodmorning everybody,
> Do you know any games like WCP? I played with WCIII, WCIV, WCP, WCSO
> and Freespace 2 (all original, and the last 3 are great, even if FS2
> hasn't FVM scenes. My favourite character is Hawk, too bad he died).
> Now I'd like to know what other space simulators there are like WCP or
> WCSO. Can you help me?
> Thanks a lot
> 

You can also try:
- Starlancer
- Tachyon: The Fringe
- Privater 2
- Ares Rising
- FreeSpace 1

And there are some simple avionics games that you may also enjoy:
- Crimson Skies
- Aqua Nox
- Echelon

Mr G wrote:

> And there are some simple avionics games that you may also enjoy:
> - Crimson Skies
> - Aqua Nox
> - Echelon

While I enoyed Crimson Skies, I'd recommend to try the demos for the 
other 2. Aquanox is a mixture of spacesim and egoshooter when it comes 
to steering (it is actually a submarine game) and Echelon - well see for 
yourself. Didn't like it at all.

BTW: You might also have a look at Hardwar. It is more a trading game 
(Privateer, Elite,...) then a war one, but if you can find it cheap it 
is worth a buy IMHO.

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Hawk wrote:
> Goodmorning everybody,
> Do you know any games like WCP?

Shameless self promotion: Try the fist mod to Secret Ops: Unknown Enemy
You can find it at:
unkownenemy.solsector.net

Besides that Mr.G already gave pretty much the whole list of interesting 
games. You might aslo want to consider earlier WC titles like WC1, WC2, 
Privateer 1,...

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Mr G <M...@nospam.com> wrote in news:b14fs2$ck5$1...@bob.news.rcn.net:
 
> And there are some simple avionics games that you may also enjoy:
> - Crimson Skies

<delurk>

  I can also reccomend Crimson Skies.  It was a very fun and pulpy 
little game marred IMO only by an irritating memory leak in the menu 
system.  Took me a while to adjust to atmospheric steering and regular 
throttle adjusment for the trick flying, though, LOL.

<lurk>

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Jim Roberts-Miller wrote:

>   I can also reccomend Crimson Skies.  It was a very fun and pulpy 

If you can ignore 2 missions that are extremely hard and not that funny 
after the 100th try.
One fight mission and one stunt flight one.

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Karl Frank <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in
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> Jim Roberts-Miller wrote:
> 
>>   I can also reccomend Crimson Skies.  It was a very fun and
>>   pulpy 
> 
> If you can ignore 2 missions that are extremely hard and not that
> funny after the 100th try.
> One fight mission and one stunt flight one.

  Would those be the ones where you have to race the bad guys through 
the movie set, and the other one where you're forced to use that 
autogyro thing in the Pirate hangout?

  Those were the worst for me, though after I learned you can 
throttle down, the movie set got a lot easier.

  But really don't most sims have at least one or two missions that 
drive everyone crazy?

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On 27 Jan 2003 23:37:38 GMT, Mr G <M...@nospam.com> wrote:

>You can also try:
>- Starlancer
>- Tachyon: The Fringe
>- Privater 2
>- Ares Rising
>- FreeSpace 1
How is Tachyon: The Fringe?

Jim Roberts-Miller wrote:

>   Would those be the ones where you have to race the bad guys through 
> the movie set, and the other one where you're forced to use that 
> autogyro thing in the Pirate hangout?

Yup. The two everyone loves ;)

>   Those were the worst for me, though after I learned you can 
> throttle down, the movie set got a lot easier.

The movie is rather easy once you get the feeling for it. Of course 
using the trick to open up a certain obstacle a bit helps a lot. I only 
really crash in the NY set at the end if at all now. Stupid statue of 
liberty...
The gyro would be a lot better if you could arm it your way. I actually 
use that little plane a lot, but only when I am allowed to configure it.
Also the game is a bit stupid here. For example I tried to lure the bad 
guys to the Pandora so that my 'carrier' can shoot them down. Just that 
it doesn't ... :-(

>   But really don't most sims have at least one or two missions that 
> drive everyone crazy?

Hmm. What really sucks is that due to the memory leak the game is likely 
to crash when you repeat a mission 10 times. I dunno how often that 
happened to me in the case of the 2...

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Hawk wrote:

> How is Tachyon: The Fringe?

You play the role of a mercenary. So you pick missions like in privateer 
that you do for money. For your profit you can buy new ships or better 
gizmos for your old one.
While the game looks to be quite freeform in reality there really are 
only 2 paths that you can follow. Its a pure story game, no real free 
gameplay, it just feels free on the first play ;)
Storywise it is quite nice, but the whole story is only done via text 
and a couple of in engine cutscenes IIRC.
Multiplayer is probably the best one ever done in a spacesim with the 
basewar concept (3 sectors. 1 friendly home, 1 enemy home and one 
resource sector in the middle). In order to win you have to collect 
enough resources to build torpedos to kill the other side.

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