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From: Angus
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:44

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In article <MPG.270827adce3bb061989a06@news.individual.net>, 
no.one@this.address says...
> 
> > 
> > So to recap and in no particular order, and sticking with single player 
> > games:
> > 
> > 
> > Freelancer
> > IWar 1 and 2
> > Freespace 1 and 2
> > Starlancer
> > Hardwar 
> > 
> > Tell me there's some gems I don't know about.  :)
> > 
> > X-Wing Alliamce?
> 
> In my opinion X-3 is hard to beat for an elite-clone with pretty much better Everything.
> Getting started cold (like I did) requires a little steep learning curve time, but there's a 
> great resource out on the web, somebody's collected all the faq and walkthroughs and strategy 
> guides published for it and put them in a (pdf?) book that's free to download.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, this game is better'n anything I tried so far, and I just wish I had 
> more time to play it. 
> 


Thanks for the info. I've not bought a copy of the game. I'm just trying 
to decide when I get round to playing it if I should start with X2 which 
I picked up cheap a while back.

I think the next game I will try is Freespace.

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