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[DeathDude]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review + download

[Dvoe]

Considering that Babylon 5 is my favorite television series of all time I feel I have an obligartion to try this game out.

[SupSuper]

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Another one is that game has issues with ATI graphic cards.

Not with me

Anyways I knew about the game way before getting uploaded here, it is indeed a great game and very true to the series (in terms of media since the game's based on a fanfic based on Babylon 5 ). And it is indeed very hard as I can't get past the first mission in which I don't have a squad to back me up

[hfric]

love this kind of games , thanks for the info and for the great review  

[Blood-Pigggy]

Babylon 5: I've Eaten And Enjoyed Her Brains

It's a pretty cool space sim style thingy, this has been in production for a LOOONG time. (I think it started shortly after the official game got cancelled).

[DeathDude]

Yup since about 1998 or 1999 when the Sierra one was canceled.

[gregor]

SupSuper, on Feb 14 2006, 09:48 PM, said:

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Another one is that game has issues with ATI graphic cards.

Not with me

great, yet still i read some posts on their forum and some documentation mentioning that. and my Radeon 9200 also had a slight problem with it.

But it is quite a good game.

tip: since the weapons are overheating make sure you aim well before you start shooting. that should kill them fast.

[Blood-Pigggy]

K, just finished the game.
And what's with the negatives?

"Overheating weapons"? That's a ordinary/space sim staple, since Privateer it's been quite common to have weapons that would overheat, it's a regulation so you don't go gung-ho.

The enemies didn't seem to take too long to die either, in fact, they were a bit easier to kill than those in, say, Freespace 2 or Wing Commander Gold, I found it to be a bit too much of shooting them in the back of their ships then going on to the next one.

[Fruit Pie Jones]

Blood-Pigggy, on Mar 1 2006, 05:08 PM, said:

"Overheating weapons"? That's a ordinary/space sim staple, since Privateer it's been quite common to have weapons that would overheat, it's a regulation so you don't go gung-ho.

It's been going on longer than that; overheating weapons were in the first Wing Commander.  It's like you said; they had to put something in to keep players from simply flying around with the trigger pulled the entire time.

[Juni Ori]

The big question remains: why on earth would those ships have infinite batteries and so they need to overheat if overused... But it's just me, I've always favored limited ammunition.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Juni Ori, on Mar 3 2006, 01:10 PM, said:

The big question remains: why on earth would those ships have infinite batteries and so they need to overheat if overused... But it's just me, I've always favored limited ammunition.

So that idiots don't run out of battery power just before the last enemy on the map has to be killed. That kind of thing really, really annoys people.

See Crimson Skies, where my mate uninstalled it for that very reason.

[Juni Ori]

Well, didn't you like Operation Flashpoint? Isn't that then annoying to get low or out of ammo with your M-16/AK-74? Surprisingly many whom I've talked with prefers limited ammo, not overheating or otherwise stupid regulation for firing guns.

[PrejudiceSucks]

I actually like it on Operation Flashpoint, I play with the crosshair off too, but when something's set in the future, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that laser guns or whatever wouldn't have ammunition and would instead run from generators, and hence possibly overheat instead of run out of power.

That's just what I think on thet matter, anyway.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Flight sims and space sims are extremely different from other genres, their gameplay relies on realism (Flight) or trying to create a realistic and believable way that ships will operate in the future (Space) their goal is to "simulate" as in the name, so they're usually way more complex and rather more difficult.

Operation Flashpoint was an exceptional game, but I wouldn't compare the style of gameplay to that of a flight or space sim, even if it is only about limited ammo or such, they rather have much different ramifications in either game.

[DeathDude]

C'mon everyone, as great as Operation Flashpoint is, it's clearly not Babylon 5, back on topic.