BPGE #22 – Descent
We kick off this week of the best PC games ever with a game called Descent. The objective is quite simple, you have full control over an armed spaceship and you must destroy the central reactor in every mine you enter. The game is a full 3D first-person shooter with six degrees of freedom. As you will need to navigate through these complex mines, this full motion freedom allows you to easily change the pitch, roll and yaw of your ship. Of course to make things more difficult, the game throws in a bunch of enemies and a few doors locked by key cards to slow down your path to the reactor. After all, what is the point of a game with no challenge ? Read more
BPGE #19 – Star Wars: TIE Fighter
We start another week with three more games on the list. To kick things off we start with a space combat simulator call Star Wars: TIE Fighter. Unlike recent games with licensed movie content, titles like this where usually a good sign back in the day. As with most of these older games, I had to spend the first five minutes stumbling around and learning the controls before being able to do anything. Once I had those stored in memory, the rest of the game was surprisingly easy to pickup and play for the first time. I quite enjoyed playing the game and found it surprisingly easy to get into. If you can look past the primitive visuals, we do have a good title in need of a remake here.
BPGE #14 – Frontier: Elite II
Frontier: Elite II is a space trading game set in a completely open universe. When I say completely open, the game has no missions, story or ending for that matter. Being a space trading game, you should ideally start trading resources for profit but how you proceed with this is entirely up to you. Do note that in our video I only did a quick trip from Mars to Earth which is a pretty short trip considering the massive scale of the game. There are many other planetary systems accessible in the game via hyperspace jumps which is important as you can start developing trade routes this way. If you wish to try out the game please read on for some instructions on how to do so. Read more
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine – Quick Look
Today, Mike takes a quick look at the Warhammer 40k: Space Marine demo. This short demo provides about 15 minutes of gameplay, split between two missions. Read on for some extra thoughts and information on the game.