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Zarimax
14th Aug 2003, 01:26 PM
I've played a lot of space combat games:

X-wing/TIE fighter
Starlancer
Freelancer
Wing Commander
Independence War
Homeworld
Privateer

While these games are great, I'm looking for a game where you can:
1) Control your ship and fly it freely around space.
2) Explore your ship in first person as it's moving through space. For example, you can get up from your pilot's chair, walk through the hatch, walk down corridors, go into rooms, visit the engine room, etc.

Does such a game exist? I can't think of one...

What I'd really like is a game where you can grapple other ships, cut a whole in their hull, and invade them with weapons blazing in a first-person perspective. The defending ship could have countermeasures like turning the lights/gravity off, nerve gas, electrified deck plating, and security bulkheads. You could also grapple the ship and go EVA, floating around in a spacesuit trying to break into airlocks or disable equipment on the outside of the ship.

I think such a game would be very complex... The 3D engine would have to handle indoor environments in 1st person AND the moving spaceships that contain them.

Does anybody know of a game that has attempted this, (either released or in development), or of a 3D engine that would be up to the task, (UT2003?)

flookster
14th Aug 2003, 01:32 PM
Dont know of any games like the one you described but it is a very cool idea.

Daedalus
14th Aug 2003, 02:00 PM
umm...isnt Battlecrusier 3000 AD and Battlecrusier Millenium like that?

Snake13
14th Aug 2003, 03:03 PM
wow I was just thinking of the same thing Zarimax i want something like that real bad

Gundato
14th Aug 2003, 03:11 PM
yeah, gonna go try that battlecruiser thing

W0RF
14th Aug 2003, 03:14 PM
LOL Derek Smart rears his head again! \o/

w00p
14th Aug 2003, 03:35 PM
I would like a star trek game thats really worth it. And not only voyager, everything!
you could be federation, klingon, borg, and all other things...

Or even a pirate game like that. Everybody works together online in a CO-OP/team way to keep your own galleon running and destroy and rob others.
calls for moddage :)

Destro7000
14th Aug 2003, 03:41 PM
Wow a game like that would be cool...I wish they put more thought like that into Atlantis in U2.

Yeah it would be fun to have a SpaceCombat where you have multiple ppl keeping the ship going, [like vehicles in BF] and use it as a place to communicate with crew about missions/ send in squaddies to other ships.

That doesn't really exist right now :(

=D7K=

w00p
14th Aug 2003, 04:00 PM
AND everything in 1st person!! :)
basicly you could even colaborate to kick the captain...
and even form an alliance with other ships...
or desert your own and yoin another, taking resources with you like guns and cannons :)