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FreeSpace 2 Gets Reissue As Limited Edition

Posted by simoniker on from the formerly-deceased dept.

Rastor writes "The PC space combat sim FreeSpace 2 is being re-released as a special Limited Edition via the Interplay Store! According to Volition Watch: 'There will be 2000 copies available, and only through the Interplay store. They will be numbered copies and will be selling for $49.95.' Why should Slashdotters care? Besides being a highly-rated game when released in 1999, the source has been released and a Linux port is available." VolitionWatch also notes "all the extra add-on campaigns and MODs available... literally hundreds of hours of gameplay time" - a limited-edition re-release is an interesting move in a world where games normally go from full-price to budget to bargain bin, and rarely return.

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  1. This needs to be done by Apreche · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This kind of thing needs to be done for other old DOS games that are hard to get working on new computers. X-COM (the REAL X-COM), Descent 1 and 2, Mechwarrior 2 (original, expansion and mercs), and TIE FIGHTER (the real deal, not XWA or XWVTF) are all games that need to get done like this. I mean, its easy to do, profitable and brings joy to everybody.

    I can not begin to tell you the epic tale of how I have tried to make the DOS version of Mechwarrior 2 work in Windows XP and/or linux. I am soooooo close!! $)%*&%#%

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    1. Re:This needs to be done by Rallion · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It WAS done for X-Com. I got both the first two running real well on XP with no hassle to run it, though there were some hacks I put in it to make it that way...

      I've love to see an updated Descent, though 3 isn't bad at all, IMO. Mechwarrior 2: Mercs used to be a favorite.

      But I would lick somebody's shoes clean if they could even replicate the quality of TIE Fighter. X-Wing was very good, it really was. TIE Fighter was just an improved version. Then XWVTF loses a lot with it's deviation from the established structure...it's not that it's a bad game, and the selection of ships is quite nice...but the XWA just sucked, okay? Most. Boring. Missions. Ever. Do you ever get to pilot a real fighter? I don't even know. I never made it too far. Couldn't go on.

      But TIE Fighter...well, let's put it this way: It's the only space sim I liked more than Freespace 2. (Barely.)