My favorite game. I love it.

Who knew we'd have to wait so long for another good space combat sim. Although it's got a horrible title, Space Force: Rogue Universe looks promising: http://www.fileplanet.com/176402/170000/fileinfo/SpaceForce:-Rogue-Universe-Trailer-High

Yeah, space is just like that! This game is so idiotic.

Oh come on. You can level that criticism at just about every space game that ever came out.

Somehow I doubt people are itching to play a totally silent pitch black game with realistic Newtonian physics.

Yeah, Freespace 2 is my second all-time favorite game, right behind Deus Ex.

As for pure realism, there are other games that have attempted that route, but they were nowhere near as fun. The Freespace games may not be as realistic, but they are fun to play.

Think of it this way. Star Wars, Babylon 5, Farscape, etc certainly don't have realistic space combat, yet it's a blast to watch them in action. Freespace 2 is like that.

I never had a chance to play this, It kind of passed underneath my radar when it was released.

Still, it's good to see one of my 4-day-discards make it to the front.

HAHA realism can make a decent game but it often times kills fun factor.

Look at Counterstrike...hardly something most people would consider a "bad game" and its no where near real (IE getting shot 4-5 times with a 5.56 round before dying, or like 7-8 times with a 9mm). This game was FUN to play and thats the whole point of it. Wing commander was not realistic either..such a horrible series!

I wish this game never died down, I played it a TON before switching to Counterstrike back in the day (GTW--Widowmaker for anyone who played back then). Nice to see it in action again!

Love this game. It's brilliant. A few friends and I were trying to make a game in the spirit of FS2 with Newtonian physics but we couldn't get the funding to take the project past our first demo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACWjTFrGy18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzUlbyBDnhE

Crappy graphics, I know. It's only a short demo, we'd have to do way more work to get it to publishable state.

The dream of a new good space sim lives on.

Actually, Alliance did a pretty decent job at realistic space physics. It was quite impressive. (And an impressive game overall.)