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. 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. 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 does not store any personal data.It's rather unfortunate that sci-fi flight sims have become so rare over the past half decade. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. CEVA-SLAM SDK and Vision Software Libraries. CEVA-XC16 Multi-gigabit Baseband Processor.
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