Posts Tagged ‘Freespace 2’
New Game+: Blue Planet: War in Heaven
Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:32 Written by servbot_kill Tuesday, 6 September 2011 01:15
If you’re in the performing arts community or are aspiring towards that particular arena, firstly, I’m sorry. The economy sucks.
You need not despair entirely though, because while there might be a dearth of paying projects out there, there are still plenty of opportunities for resume-building, particularly in the vein of community-built projects. Today, I’m highlighting the Blue Planet campaign for the FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project. You may or may not have played this campaign (the War in Heaven portion, Age of Aquarius is already fully voiced, sorry) in the shiny FreeSpace 2 SCP, and if you haven’t, two videos follow for what you’re missing:
Tags: best space sim ever, Blue Planet, community, Freespace 2, modding, New Game+, sci-fi, user generated content, voice acting | Posted under Cool, Game Column, Games | No Comments
Life After Game Over: FreeSpace 2
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 November 2009 09:13 Written by servbot_kill Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:53
I wonder if anyone remembers this title, but it was released in 1999 as a sequel to 1998’s Descent: Freespace. At the time of release, this was the title to beat in terms of space combat simulation and ironically one of the last major space combat sims to be released in the genre’s heyday. Since then, few challengers have risen to wrest the crown of greatest space combat sim from this title (still widely considered at release and at present to be the best one ever released) and the leading edge of the industry’s development has shifted to first-person shooters and third-person perspective games, with their ever-increasing focus on realistic graphics and physics.
Since then however, the company responsible for the development of FreeSpace 2, Volition, famous since then for titles such as Red Faction: Guerrilla, made the source code for FreeSpace 2 available to the public.
And thus, mods for this game took off.
Tags: Freespace 2, Games | Posted under News | No Comments