![]() ![]() I will go on record and say it: Freespace 2 is the best space flight sim ever made. ![]() Find it through Google and bring this classic, masterpiece of a game to the modern day. All the while, a grand narrative is unfolding with plenty of little twists and flavor to keep your interest.ĮDIT: I have nominated this game for the Test of Time Steam award!įirst things first, the Freespace 2 Open Source Code Project has essentially brought Freespace 2 to 2014-era graphics. ![]() In the space of a few minutes, you'll find yourself weaving between capital ships, trying to dodge flak, focus-fire on enemy capital weaponry to disarm them, and dog-fighting with customizable ships and loadouts. For me personally, as-downloaded, my installation of Freespace 2 refused to run properly, but after installing FSO, it executes effortlessly. If you're having technical issues be sure to check out the Freespace Open project, which attempts to fix some of the bugs and update the graphics and lighting to a level contemporary players may be more comfortable with. If you have any interest in this genre, and you haven't played this game yet, you're missing out on the masterstroke that paved the way for games like Freelancer and EVE Online. The tutorial tries to shove in to your brain a bunch of different ways of controlling the fighter, key combinations to do this and that, but when the actual campaign started I had forgotten almost all of them and didn't actually need them, while a few that I did need seemed inconveniently placed away from WASD/mouse buttons or at odds with what I'm used to for typical FPS games.īut it's a minor complaint, overall I didn't feel it got in the way of enjoying the game, it just felt a bit awkward to me at times.Freespace 2 was the definitive in-cockpit ship-to-ship space combat simulator of the transitionary period between the 90's and 2000's. I found myself having to get away from the WASD keys too often to do simple things during combat which is what I expect with a flight sim, but seemed kind of unnecessary and unintuitive here. ![]() The controls just seemed a bit overly complicated to me and spread too far across the keyboard. Here's some images I personally took while playing through, I have the settings maxed but no AA (running a cheapo video card) but haven't played around with all the options and also there may be a bit of compression because the original files were too big to upload.Ĭlick to expand.I will admit I don't have a lot of experience with space combat games and only got in to them recently so maybe I'm not qualified to critique them I don't think it's anything a simple remapping won't fix. Their website seems to be down at the moment, but I'll post the link to their forum where you should be able to download it when it comes back up. If you are a fan of either Galactica and/or space combat games, you need to check this frakking game out or else you're just full of feldercarb. Overall I'm mighty impressed with the polish and quality for a free game with the graphics, voice acting, sound and overall feel of the game, some professional studios should take hints from the developers of Diaspora. It is very unforgiving, although the game is short, several of the missions took me a few tries to finish because if you don't keep on your toes you can get demolished pretty easy by accidentally flying into friendly fire, letting a Raider get too close or just blowing yourself up with your own missiles. Story is good, as I said, it occurs at the time of the initial Cylon attack and it kept me interested. The standard controls suck, I haven't tried tweaking them yet though. Menu system is a bit cumbersome and overall the UI is a bit clunky. Soundtrack is awesome, they really captured the feel of Galactica. Graphics look good, not mind blowing, but it looks good enough and is immersive. Tutorial is long and complicated given you won't use most of it in the actual campaign (which may change if they ever get around to releasing more episodes). Far too short (apparently they are planning episodic releases, though given how long this has been in the works I don't know how that will work out). You get to pilot the MkVII Viper in a story that parallels the modern Galactica series at the time of the Cylons returning. This frakking shocked and horrified me because it's an awesome game which is FREE to download and play, it's a standalone mod in the Freespace Source Code Project, so you don't need to own Freespace 2 to play it. I did a search on "diaspora" and didn't see anything. ![]()
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