![]() Whilst Privateer was largely viewed as a missed opportunity, no-one could argue the Wing Commander series is a pillar of the modern Space Combat epic. His key involvement with the Wing Commander series whilst at Origin and then with the Microsoft published spin-off Privateer means his CV could hardly be more suitable for identifying his suitability for the role as the saviour of Space games. Resurrection: Chris Roberts, Saviour of the Space GameĬhris Roberts has played his part in the gestation and evolution of the Space Combat sim. Almost overnight, the genre was dead! It was left to non-commercial / community initiatives such as the FreeSpace Open Code Project and the popular Starshatter to stop the genre flat-lining completely. Stalwart franchises such as Wing Commander (1990) reached too far into FMV’s Pandora’s box and when FreeSpace 2 (regarded by many, including me, as the best Space Combat game of all time) was released in 1999 and sold a paltry 27,000 copies, publishers ran for the hills. The genre offered something more focused than the sprawling, lonely crawl that ‘space trading’ titles such as Elite (1984) excelled at, and allowed those hankering for the chance to pilot craft into battle without the tedium of counting pennies just that.Īnd so, the genre went from strength to strength in the 90’s, riding the PC gaming renaissance wave and embracing emergent technologies such as CD-ROM and 3D Accelerator Cards to bring ever greater scale and fidelity to the table.īut then, the genre began to fizzle. But it’s also much more than that - this is an opportunity to help realize a new generation of space combat simulator, a genre which once upon a time set the PC platform apart from its less auspicious console brethren.Įarly space combat simulator titles such as Tie Fighter (1994), X-Wing (1994) and Descent: FreeSpace (1998) series offered a demographic already pre-disposed to sci-fi, lasers, spaceships, and aliens the opportunity to live out their fantasies of saving distant galaxies. ![]() Star Citizen is an ambitious new game which will feature Oculus Rift support.
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