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Article #93603Re: Freelancer and then what else?
From: Stephen Robertson
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:19
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:19
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"Indolove" <ki...@me-baby.com> wrote in message news:3e7b25ad$1@news.starhub.net.sg... > Wasn't really interested in space sims but the recent Freelancer demo tweaked my > interest in the genre. I was looking around for some other similar games and > found Wing Commander: Secret Ops, which although kinda repetative was quite > exciting. Now, I'm wondering what other gems are there in the genre that I > should look into and how much priority I should give to each. So far I have a > limited list (see below). Please suggest any other good game I may not know > about. > > 1. Freelancer (Its the newest so I guess it ranks No.1) > 2. Wing Commander Prophecy (I heard its better than Secret Ops) > 3. Freespace2 (heard good things about it) > 3. Freespace (heard good things about it) > 4. Its like an older version of Freelancer right? Independence War Deluxe Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos Demos available for both of these. But I'm biased :-) Best regards, -- Steve Stephen Robertson Senior Designer Particle Systems http://www.particle-systems.com http://www.independencewar.com/home.htm http://www.edgeofchaos.net
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!195.40.4.120.MISMATCH!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post1!not-for-mail From: "Stephen Robertson" <st...@particle-systems.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim References: <3e7b25ad$1@news.starhub.net.sg> Subject: Re: Freelancer and then what else? Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:19:19 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3e7b2e44$0$15319$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk> Organization: [posted via Easynet UK] NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.135.236.122 X-Trace: DXC=nDZ]H1<VhZ<f_[?57n:lF?Woi;jC1eK@=Ah6YjN=k^?;k\\5OHPEFP: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit