Freespace 2

WISH THEY CONTINUES IT!!!!!!!

This is why GOG.com is going to be the greatest thing to ever happen to PC gaming. I have seen this game going for 100 bucks or more on ebay in the past. It's a fantastic game that everyone should play, but who wants to have to pay 100 bucks in order to play it? The space flight sim genre is all but dead. That's a shame. I think Freespace 2 is the pinnacle of the genre as far as gameplay goes. Wing Commander began to focus too much on storytelling and uninteractive movie sequences. Freespace 2 does away with all of that and instead, it gives you hours of tense combat. It's also very very pretty. Its visuals hold up very well for a 9 year old game. If the genre were still alive today, I wouldn't think any new games would look much better than Freespace 2.

This is the best space shooter ever. Did you know it's source code was release and that there is a big online community for Freespace 2 the Freespace Source Code Project? http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/FSSCP_Introduction

There are few games that gave me the rush that Elite did. While this is not a space trading sim, it did bring a new concept at the time: Fighters VS Capital Ships. There was somthing that kept me playing this through the end, and I still own the CDs. When I found that one of my discs had a massive gouge in it, I went in search of another copy & finally stumbled upon GOG. I was more than happy to pay $6 for an updated, compiled, all-in-one installer.

I'll keep it short: The game is all about playing through excellent, fun and fluid combat space missions. It even has a kind of a story that successfully holds the missions together and even player choices in some of them that changes the way the mission then plays. Oh, and no bugs or crashes. Enjoy.