The Badlands cluster, 100 years after the first Independence War. Your father was killed by the Corporations for a bad debt and you
have spent 5 years rotting in jail for trying to get justice. Now it's time for vengeance. Now it's time to turn back the
Corporations before they corrupt the entire Un...
The Badlands cluster, 100 years after the first Independence War. Your father was killed by the Corporations for a bad debt and you
have spent 5 years rotting in jail for trying to get justice. Now it's time for vengeance.
Now it's time to turn back the
Corporations before they corrupt the entire Universe. Now it's time to take control of the universe's most advanced interstellar
hardware and wage war in the greatest space-sim ever conceived.
Command four space vessels and a band of revolutionary pirates into
an all-consuming battle against impossible odds, because there just isn't enough Space for everyone!
Non-linear gameplay featuring dynamically created space traffic
A realistic flight system, working in accordance with Newton's laws of motion
Four pilotable ships and over 100 weapons and upgrades
manual (27 pages)
artworks
HD wallpapapers
avatars
soundtrack
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Recommended system requirements:
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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I still have my original install discs for this, and it's still loaded on my hard drive. Even nine years on, it amazes me how good this game looks on a modern system. Independence War 2 did a better job of making outer space feel like outer space - as opposed to a giant, zero-gravity encounter area - than any other game I've found.
It isn't perfect. For one, the combat can be quite punishing if you're accustomed to other space sims. Don't bite off more than you can chew, and you can't chew much at all to start with. But it's good, and very much worth playing.
The game looks for an optical drive, as part of its old copy protection scheme. If you don't have one, don't panic and don't listen to the idiots who say it can't be run in single player mode without an optical drive. They are wrong. All you need to do, is get an emulator or of you already have windows 10, find an ISO or other CD/DVD.BD image and mount it. This will create a virtual optical drive and the game will see it as an optical drive and run.
This info can be found with a simple search, instead of assuming the worst and throwing a hissy fit. If you are going to run old games on new hardware, you need to be aware of these gotchyas and caveats!
EoC is to Independence Wars what Privateer is to Wingman series - almost.
You are a space pirate that turns into something much more...
Good: Way better than original I-wars. * Huge, living star system. * Diverse missions: from sneaking into a base to steal enemy's equipment, to massive space battles. * Physics and flying mechanics are really good. * Zooming with a remote fighter like an angry wasp among befuddled enemies is pure joy. * Graphics (esp. cut-scenes) are great and haven't aged much at all. No need for ninja PC to enjoy them either. * Force feedback support. * Mostly bug-free.
Bad: Trading is very rudimentary. There's no money, just bartering. And generally you can't sell any ship's equipment, nor buy other bartering goods. So the only way is to go out and `liberate' stuff off some transport ship, then trade it for new gear. * Other than that, pirating has very little sense, as hoarding stuff gets you nowhere. * Can't buy ships. You only get a new ship by completing a specific mission. And the third ship you get about 1/3rd into the game (patcom) is the best in any case. * Missions' difficulty varies insanely: some require flying to the target and 10-15 mins of yawning while holding fire button. Then enemy armada will suddenly jump in and kill you off in a few seconds. * At times I had NO IDEA how to finish a mission or get a new one. Had to google it. * Much talk about ship's stealth, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. In stealth missions you'll get discovered if you get within 5km of an enemy ship in any case - whichever gear you use. Outside of missions, there's no point in stealth at all - most NPCs will ignore you until you attack them, and after that it doesn't matter anyway.
Ugly: Sometimes skipping a cut-scene might skip half a mission as well. * Joystick is a must. Seems it should be possible to fly with mouse, but I couldn't make it work. * Win7's DEP must be turned off or it won't run. O_o
Four stars 'coz it still is lots of fun!
If you're mildly curious about an occasionally unforgiving and difficult (read as: realistic) space simulator, with newtonian physics (hence the "simulator" part) then, by golly, they don't come better than this. It may be nostalgia, but everything STILL looks good on a full HD TV, in native resolution.
The realistic depiction of interstellar distances, stellar body sizes, beautiful ambient music will echo in your mind for quite some time. Interstellar traffic, waring factions, ship checks and collisions make frequented traffic routes entertaining just to watch, let alone take part in. Configuring your ship to whatever your liking is, searching the starmap for L-points that might have traffic with cargo for that one upgrade you're missing, be it better thrusters, stronger shields, or the occasional sniper cannon, makes you feel like you're part of the game in a way like no other. And all this blends seamlessly in with the GUI that you'll use as naturally as you would use a fork.
How To Start Playing This Game In 2012:
dust off joystick (or borrow, force feedback if possible)
acquire game (patch if necessary)
go to : http://i-war2.com/
bookmark, download walkthrough encyclopedia addon and location finder from the mods section
And now, you're all set to experience the game, without bugs, without the need to quit to know what the hell some missions want from you, and without the need for minutes of frustrating searching on the starmap, for a location referenced 40 minutes ago. By the way, the game recognized every setting my video card had to offer as soon as I started it, on my win7 x64 PC. (which is ironic, considering splinter cell wouldn't recognize my 720p Tv in 2010)
If you're interested in a deeply customizable and openended spaceship simulator and are not affraid of the challenge to put some hard work into every enemy spaceship kill, yes by all means.
On the other hand if you fancy Ace Combat 6, where you only need to push a button to win, you'll probably want to look elsewhere.
This is it, IW2 is the game that brought me to GOG and while it's far from perfect in technical, gameplay or story sense... to me however, it is perfect.
While IW2 is quite the departure from the also great original I-War it has a few tricks that make it a lot better. First and most importantly you are now free to roam the star systems it has on offer. Secondly you can attack cargo vessels and have your crew collect the cargo containers, this alone is epic and never have I seen pirating being so much fun and rewarding as in this game. It's not easy as well, valuable cargo is usually well protected and the enemies in this game aren't pushovers.
Thirdly you can customize your spacecraft to suit the mission or your gameplay style. You can kit your ship out with quad PBC's and powerful thrusters and fight it out at close range. Or you can fit missiles and duke it out at long ranges. You can also go for complete stealth and try your luck in an almost invisible but very vulnarable craft. Later on you'll get better ships and gear. I found that the earlier useless medium range PBC and when you put them on every weapon hardpoint of the A-Patcom, you have an almost unstoppable machine.
The technical issues this game have are some mission scripting that don't seem to work on newer computers. You also might want to lock framerates not higer than 60fps for this game.
As for the story, gamedevelopement of this game was cut short and it has a somewhat dissappointing conclusion because of that.
Also I want to add that for the best experience this should be played with a joystick.
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