#Freespace 2 gameplay pc Pc#
Although there are still blips on the proverbial radar, such as X2: The Threat and Freelancer, it seems that the sun has set on one of the premier gaming genres of the 1990s, a decade that brought us a number of fantastic entries into the Wing Commander and X-wing series, and which was capped off by one of the finest PC games ever (of any genre), Freespace 2. Sci-fi flight sim games are deader than a doornail, at least on the PC. Luckily, even though it's six years old, Freespace 2 still looks and plays as well as it ever did-if you can find a copy, that is. With the general distaste for niche products and games that require peripherals to run (I'd wager that the percentage of PC gamers that also own joysticks is as low as it has ever been), it seems unlikely that we'll ever see a space sim of the scope and quality of Freespace 2 ever again. (It's worth noting, however, that there is a Babylon 5 total modification for the Freespace 2 engine that updates the graphics and includes a lengthy single-player campaign.) The project never did see the light of day, despite the usual round of online petitions and uproar from the Internet Babylon 5 community.
#Freespace 2 gameplay pc license#
The developers continued to work on it for a year, hoping to buy the license from Sierra, but to no avail. Despite the fact that the company had spent a ton of money on the game in the two years of development, and that it was only months away from release, the Sierra bigwigs decided that they weren't going to recoup their investment in the game and decided to cancel the project. The nail in the coffin of the big-budget space sim was probably Sierra's cancellation of its high-profile Babylon 5 game late in 1999. It doesn't look like the space sim genre is going to come back in any big way in the future, though. Thanks to mods, Freespace 2 and Babylon 5 live on well past their commercial extinction.
While the controls actually worked out well, nothing can really compare with the feel of a good force feedback joystick kicking in your hands while you gun down enemy ships. Freelancer has a rather large asterisk by its name, anyway, due to the fact that it was based around a mouse-and-keyboard interface and didn't even include support for joysticks. Space sims, however, have almost disappeared completely, with the titles that are being released, such as X2: The Threat and Freelancer, doing rather poorly at retail.
#Freespace 2 gameplay pc simulator#
The general- audience flight sim genre as a whole has become a relatively niche category that most major publishers avoid, save for Microsoft and its Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator series. It's rather unfortunate that sci-fi flight sims have become so rare over the past half decade.
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