Freespace 2

Perfect for it's time... good all round but the absolute standout and unique piece is the HUGE battleships. No other game has battleships it takes you an age to fly around and then engages them in mass space combat as you fly between the lazers. Real shame there's been no FS3 and FSopen is so user unfriendly.

my favorite space flight sim of all time. Better than the Wing Commanders, maybe even better than TIE Fighter! I always described this to my friends as "the best Star Wars game there is", since its battles feel more like the huge fleet battles from SW than the actual SW games ever did to me. Cannot recommend this one highly enough!

This is to this day, my favorite video game. It has even beaten Jumpman, which is far older and almost as awesome. This game would make a great movie, and desperately needs to be reborn or continued. There is an Open source site that loves this game so well that they have updated the graphics to keep it current. Truly an awesome game.

For the first look you may find this game an old space shooter with blurry textures and old school gameplay. But if you give it time the game shines: energy systems management, countermeasures, sensors use, advanced weapon use are key features in Freespace 2. The campaign is a long one, the missions are vibrants, varied in goals and the atmosphere is fantastic.

As in the original, the story unfolds in FreeSpace 2 through a combination of mission and command briefings, sporadic cutscenes, and, most effectively, through events depicted within actual missions. Gameplay in FreeSpace 2 will be very familiar to Freespace veterans, but there are several significant improvements. You'll still pilot fighters and bombers, but the capital ships in the game have been made considerably more dangerous. The cruisers and destroyers weren't exactly puny in the first game, but they're positively gigantic in FreeSpace 2, and unlike in many space sims, the capital ships are as deadly as their ominous size suggests. Almost all the capital ships in the game are now equipped with powerful beam weapons similar to those that were on the Shivan dreadnought, the Lucifer, in the original game. The main beam weapons are primarily used in battles between capital ships, but most of the larger ships are also stocked with smaller, anti-fighter beam weapons. Capital ships have been decked out in flak cannons as well, which let them make quick work of bombers and fighters foolish enough to wander in range. They are also still equipped with laser turrets and missile silos as in the original game, collectively making capital ships flying fortresses you'll learn to fear.