Is there a modern version of ELITE?
This marvellous game ran on the BBC micro about 25 years ago.
It was an interstellar exploration, trading, and shoot-em-up game with
crude wire-frame graphics and compulsive, addictive game-play.
The nearest to it nowadays seems to be OOLITE, which is a retro
implementation of the original BBC software. Solid graphics but not much
else. Great fun to play but lacking the graphic and simulation detail
that modern processors make possible.
EV NOVA has the sort of graphics and detail I'm looking for, and a game
structure that seems based on ELITE (navigate, land on space station,
trade, buy kit, depart, kill pirates and other nasties, improve your
equipment, rating and performance)...
.... but, crucially, the view isn't a first-person simulation in which
you look out of your spacecraft as you pilot it, but a weedy little
third-person view of your spacecraft from afar.
So! does anyone know of a modern space game with the game structure of
EV NOVA, the first-person simulation view of OOLITE/ELITE... oh, and the
yummy graphics of HOMEWORLD 2 would be nice...
Kind regards,
Devi
PS I'd appreciate info on alternatives to the games listed even if they
don;t meet my ideal specification!
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