![]() The graphics and sound are all completely different when landing on a planet which is a nice touch.Īfter about 20-30 missions, I have a look at buying a better ship. It has 2 mining stations + an agricultural planet. I don’t attempt to jump out to another system for quite a while but stick with the troy system I start in. This gives me harder higher paying missions to take on. Once I’ve done a few missions I look into joining the mercenaries guild.Īfter a brief chat, I pay my 5000 credits to join up. Jump points here are big blue clouds which you have to be inside to jump to the appropriate system. ![]() The whole system of the game is open to me from the start (at least once I buy a jump drive) with loads of bases and planets to explore. It seems to be much more picky about you getting an exact hit than Wing Commander was and some of these ships are quite thin. Space stations in particular look awesome and the textures are high-res enough that they just keep looking better the closer you get.Ĭombat is quite tricky. The graphics are quite a bit nicer than Wing Commander though. I’m not sure if this is a performance thing or if it will get better with newer ships. The first thing of note is that I can hardly see anything. Patrol nav points, defend a station, track down and destroy a certain ship, fly cargo etc. The mission computer in the hall provides me with a choice of 6 randomly generated missions. These follow the usual formulas. Pretty much everything you can think of is upgradable and there really are a huge number of choices. This base has a ship dealer and I will be spending a lot of time customising and repairing my ship here. I guess the bartenders will give general clues about where to go and what stocks to take where, etc. There is a bar and a bartender to talk to. ![]() From here I can explore the space station in Wing Commander style. The game starts with my inheritted ship sitting on the spacepad. In the best traditions of an Origin RPG you aren’t really given any information on the game and have to figure things out yourself on the way. The manual gives a bit more background on your character which to be extremely brief tells how you inherit a spaceship, lose your existing career on a merchant vessel when it is damaged beyond repair and get forced into the life of a Privateer. Its a great sequence, (apart from the usual level of voice acting) and it sets the scene for the games storyline nicely. ![]() The introduction shows me being attacked by 3 pirates, fighting them off and accidentally shooting some strange looking spaceship with green glowing bits with a stray missile which powers up after I’ve gone. Its a game I’ve been quite looking forward to playing as I’ve never given it a fair chance before now and have heard a lot of positive things about it. It came with an optional speech pack and was not a cheap game in the first place as I remember. This was the last series to be based on the Wing Commander engine before Origin made the transition to full 3D for its flight sims. Despite being based on the Wing Commander engine it required a much more powerful machine and although I met (exactly) the minimum requirements on the box it wasn’t really playable. I wasn’t hugely impressed at the time but the fact was my PC didn’t have enough grunt to run it making it very difficult to play. This is a game, I’ve played through just the one time years back and I hacked my save game to give myself enough money to get the best equipment from the start. ![]() There isn’t much scientific basis for these but there will no doubt be videos of him attempting to skip in space and the like on the Metro website in the next few days.īack to Privateer. He will be carrying out a few simple experiments that school children designed as part of a competition in the paper. It had passed me by completely but he is one of the first lot of space tourists and just blasted off the other day. As a token Brit (he was born over here in England) he’s taken a copy of the Metro making it the first newspaper in space. I picked up a Metro newspaper on the train into work this morning and was more than a bit surprised to see a picture of Richard Garriot on the front page. Before I get onto Privateer, a random bit of news. ![]()
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