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Article #105858Re: Trying to remember the name of a game
From: Peter Huebner
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:35
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:35
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In article <0r6o73hhn9c74vbsitt882jnc82pgd0ame@4ax.com>, memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com says... > For a while now I have been trying to remember the name of a game I played a > year or so back. It was a space combat game with strategy/RPG elements, as far > as upgrading your ship was concerned. It was all played out in third person, > you could upgrade your ship as the game went on to destroyers or carriers and > one of the last weapon types you got was a kind of black hole/point > singularity projector. You could attach all sorts of addons to your hull like > litterally dozens of different armours, each with different effects and as the > game progressed these would increase in level/effectiveness. Also there was no > up and down, everything playing out on a flat plane but there were planets and > stars to fly around, although hopelessly out of scale. It was the typical > affair where you fight one enemy and then part through the game another enemy > is revealed, which reminded me a lot of the Bionts from Archimedean Dynasty, > before they ruined the rest of the series later on. > > Anyone remember or even picture this game? I keep thinking of Star Wolves but > its not that as you can go up and down as well. > Star Fury comes to mind as a game that is played in one level i.i.r.c. (green grid overlay?), put out by Malfador Machinations, the Space Empires people. -P. -- ========================================= firstname dot lastname at gmail fullstop com
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