Space Games?

[frogbeastegg]

Still, if two mods recommend it...

Three mods. If you don't get it now then we'll need to see about a ban

It's scary. It's creepy. It's disturbing. It's old and now rather ugly. It is ... unsurpassed. It has a wonderful plot for a game, a great way of telling it, atmosphere, it hooks you in and refuses to let you go. It requires brains more than blasters. Don't think it's pure horror though; it has some funny parts, some inspring parts, a touchingly understated lovestory sideplot; some of everything. If it's any help, I don't like scary games much either. They simply don't interest me.

[Androo]

Hey, thanks Martinus, I will check it out!

If you don't get it now then we'll need to see about a ban

*sigh*I knew it was only a matter of time, but I didn't think that it would happen so soon...

Frogbeastegg that is the best (and most succinct) review of a game I have ever read. It sounds tremendous, almost the game I have been dreaming of. Three mods* makes a quorum: it is now at the top of my must-play list. (It doesn't quarrel with XP?)

*Three mods are also sufficient to take on the rockers on the beach at Brighton. Mods vs Rockers mod of RTW anyone?

[Bob the Insane]

It's scary. It's creepy. It's disturbing. It's old and now rather ugly.

For the ugly bit, I believe there is a mod that does not change the game, but rather updates all the textures in the game making it look much prettier...

In fact check out:

http://www.fileplanet.com/filelist.aspx?s=94465&v=0

The TExt reads:

Did you ever wanted to play System Shock 2 with new enhanced graphics ?
That's what the "System Shock Rebirth" mod is made for... It will replace all the originals low polygons AI meshes by totally new Hi-res ones...
SHODAN is back... but this time, in all her beauty...

This Beta contained the following enhanced characters:
- The Many Hybrid with Pipe
- The Many Hybrid with Shotgun
- The Many Hybrid with Grenades
- The Midwife
- The Cyborg Assassin
- All Dead Crew Members of the Von Braun and the Rickenbacker
- The Ghosts

[frogbeastegg]

It works fine with XP, at least on my system. Now, off you go. Go find a copy, so you too can learn why I get all nervous when I hear monkey noises.

Ah, yes. I remember that mod. Last I heard it had only just been started, so it's obviously been a while.

[Crandaeolon]

Just for the sake of discussion, SS2 is not a space game - more like a cyberpunk action/adventure/RPG/horror game. But a great game, yes, that it is.

I revisited it a couple years ago with a friend; we played it cooperatively in LAN. (A later patch added multiplayer to the game.) A darkened room, powerful sound system, and the increased tension of having to pool resources and be more careful in combat added even more to the already thrilling atmosphere. We had quite a few amusing friendly fire incidents with the heavier weapons.

[Kraxis]

I wouldn't dare co-op SS2... I think I would kill my teammate too often out of pure shock.

I used to play it at night... It was scary and tense, but not horrorlike as good old froggy says. It was just very tense, you never knew what would come at you, or if you had enough ammo to deal with it.

I remember a time when I had run out of ammo, and three Many Hybrids came at me. They hadn't seen me so I bolted into a sideentrance (the long corrideros where you meet the Walkers)... The Hybrids walked by, but then the last one stopped. I was standing there in the darkness with my wrench, I was tensed up so bad that I hadn't noticed I was perspiring heavily... Just as the Hybrid turned to face me a single drop of perspiration dropped from the armpit (don't think about it) to my side and I literally screamed out loud of fear and shock and I jumped from the chair ready to fight.

My parents came running wondering what was going on, finding me standing in combatpose looking for unseen assailants... Boy have they had a lot of fun on my account.

But the game is highly entertaining, and I think half of the goodness coems from the combination of the ghosts and the logs you stumble over. They are so damn alive. And who cam forget when that pair you have been chasing all over flees from that Brute while you can only wait for the door to open enough. ARGH!

[TinCow]

Homeworld 2 is a very good space RTS. Since it's a RTS set in space, you operate on all three axis, something that is rather unique in the genre. The graphics are VERY good as well, even though its a couple years old.

[Androo]

It works fine with XP, at least on my system. Now, off you go. Go find a copy, so you too can learn why I get all nervous when I hear monkey noises.

Frightening monkey noises!?! O well, I'm off to eBay...

For the ugly bit, I believe there is a mod that does not change the game, but rather updates all the textures in the game making it look much prettier...

Even better! Thanks for that, Bob the Insane. I don't have a fileplanet account, but perhaps I can find it elsewhere. (Or perhaps it is time to give up and get an account.)

I remember a time when I had run out of ammo, and three Many Hybrids came at me. They hadn't seen me so I bolted into a sideentrance (the long corrideros where you meet the Walkers)... The Hybrids walked by, but then the last one stopped. I was standing there in the darkness with my wrench,

That sounds absolutely brilliant! I love the subtlety of the last one stopping.

I literally screamed out loud of fear and shock and I jumped from the chair ready to fight.

Hee! Hee! Not a problem for me, living on my lonely-o. I may be , but by the time anybody sees me, I should be like Fonzie .

Just for the sake of discussion, SS2 is not a space game - more like a cyberpunk action/adventure/RPG/horror game.

Good point, duly noted.

you operate on all three axis, something that is rather unique in the genre

Yes, that is one of the few things I don't like about SfC3. Come on: it's space but the ships only move on the x and y axes?!?