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While waiting for x rebirth to come out and the misses being away for the week i have the house to myself and a stupid amount of hours to waste! Can anyone suggest any decent space games to play? Already done Eve, X3 and my fave freelancer. Anyone know of any others i should give a try? Cheers!
not a massive fan of kerbal more into the whole shooting and trading aspect :P 
hanger looked promising. also got sins of a solar empire playing that at the moment If you like the trading thing, and can deal with retro and terrible, terrible plots / acting - then Tachyon is good (for a bit anyway). One of those where you;re a freelance trader / fighter type, ahving to get missions / bounties to buy more untill you;re hard as nails.
I was working through it between x wing vs tie fighter an Alliance coming out, didn't bother once Alliance hit. Come to think of it, I've not played that for years, might have to go dig the old joystick out of the loft and bullseye some wamp rats in my T-16...
I was working through it between x wing vs tie fighter an Alliance coming out, didn't bother once Alliance hit. Come to think of it, I've not played that for years, might have to go dig the old joystick out of the loft and bullseye some wamp rats in my T-16...
If you can find it for a few quid, 'Nexus: The Jupiter Incident' is quite good as a space battle sim, the followup was terrible, but Nexus isn't a bad way to spend a few afternoons.
Link to Youtube gameplay vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhnRXdNXCw
Link to Youtube gameplay vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhnRXdNXCw
If you have tried Eve Online how about Battlestar Galactica online? - http://en.battlestar-galactica.bigpoint.com/
ben5732 said:
what is this alliance you speak of? found a few different space games around that name
X Wing Alliance - it's the latest (and probably the best) in the series of proper space games based on Star Wars. By "proper", I mean like a fighty flight sim, rather than the utter cack that is Rogue Squadron, which was like Starfox, only s
tter.The series is:
X wing (dos)
B wing (dos, slightly shinier version of X wing with 2 new planes etc)
Tie Fighter (dos, best gameplay, but really terribly dated now)
X wing vs Tie fighter (win95, first with skirmishes etc, single player was a bit gash but the multiplayer bit was well impressive in it's day)
X Wing alliance - graphically / sounds the best, good skirmishes, and has a reasonable storyline. In fact, if you do get on with it, the final mission is just ACE the first time you play it.*
- being an 80's child helps, I grew up with Star wars at christmas, it may have infected my inner geek a bit too effectively).
Star Wars the Old republic is launching a new PVP starfighter game next month (or at least next month if you have a subscription)
Might be worth a look but it has no PVE element to it so don't go if you're looking for that
http://www.swtor.com/
Might be worth a look but it has no PVE element to it so don't go if you're looking for that
http://www.swtor.com/
It shows its age now (just checked - its 14 years old... Jesus...), but Freespace 2 was one of the best space flying shooter type games ever. The storyline is fantastic and the scale of the battles really made it - dogfighting around with other fighters while massive capital ships knock lumps out of each other around you - one of my favourite games ever.
Well worth a look if you can get past the clunky graphics.
Well worth a look if you can get past the clunky graphics.
Parsnip said:
It shows its age now (just checked - its 14 years old... Jesus...), but Freespace 2 was one of the best space flying shooter type games ever. The storyline is fantastic and the scale of the battles really made it - dogfighting around with other fighters while massive capital ships knock lumps out of each other around you - one of my favourite games ever.
Well worth a look if you can get past the clunky graphics.
Still looks better than some of the sWell worth a look if you can get past the clunky graphics.
t that I've played recently, Darkstar One on the 360 was awful 
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