Hello all

I thought I'd just share this free game with you. (okay so its only at the demo phase at this moment, but still its a fine effort.)

One of the main reasons it's free is because in 2002, Volition released the source code for the game engine of FreeSpace 2 to the public.

http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/
http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/downloads.html
http://www.moddb.com/games/6596/bsg-beyond-the-red-line/

If after trying Beyond the Red Line, you (like me) want more of the same, look no further than the following link http://www.hard-light.net/ for more potentially free flight games based on the same game engine.

P.S. I have never really been a fan or indeed hooked on Flight games, but this one has me hooked.
P.P.S If anyone knows of anything similar please make a recomendation

That looks awesome, I grew up playing X-Wing and Tie Fighter so I love me some space flight sim. The FreeSpace games weren't half bad either.

d/l it now i can use my £100 joystick ive used one's weeeheeeeee thanks

I remember them releasing this and finding the free freespace2 download too, it Just reminded me to play Elite 2 so thanks...

Maybe X2 or X3 for a reccomendation? They're a bit slow burning but rewarding if you give em time. Massive big galaxies to explore and stuff, something else for that Joystick Rizz, can't be alot more than a tenner for the new one.

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Very technically oriented, but can be used just for fun and as a normal flight sim because there are masses of addons for it.
You just try landing the shuttle.

Thx Spider for the rec, I'll look into that soon. (Never mind landing the Space shuttle, I probably wont even be able to Launch it you're havin' a laff...)

Btw Did you ever play Search and Rescue 4, I found it flawed (well it was too realistic and hence tricky to learn), but you pld as helicopter rescue crews etc.
I spent the first few days just trying to get offthe helipad
Kept blowing up the rotors...

But the main reason I am posting to is to share more freebie Flight games based on this Freespace2 open source engine

Check out these pages for more Space combat/Flight heaven (I havent tried them all yet-only tried two others at the time of writing, but I can tell you Wing Commander and The Babylon Project are very impressive indeed. (The Babylon project imparticularly has plenty of addional Campaigns to download.)

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.ph ... onversions
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.ph ... _%28FS2%29
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index. ... 139.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index. ... 781.0.html
http://sectorgame.com/f2s/downloads.php ... gory&id=29
http://www.wcsaga.com/content/view/23/46/