Privateer Remake Complete 251
flyboy writes "In a similar vein to the remakes of the Origin's Ultima series games reported in 2001 and 2004 a group of Wing Commander fans has remade Wing Commander: Privateer. Unlike the Ultima remakes, the Privateer remake is finished at version 1.0 with 3d graphics and the whole storyline. For the new kids on the block, WC:Privateer was a much loved trading game similar to the more venerable Elite, which appears also to be in the process of a remake. As a linux fan I was most happy with the remake's use of GPL 3d engine software and release of Linux, Macintosh and Windows versions. See Screenshots here."
Escape Velocity? (Score:3, Interesting)
(oh, and FP
Re:Remake Crusader (Score:2, Interesting)
quite possibly 2 of the best games ever.
Jainith
Re:Torrent for the game (Score:5, Interesting)
copyright? (Score:5, Interesting)
Personally I would feel honoured and accept the compliment that my work is being resurrected ~10 years hence for people to enjoy, but I can't speak for them. How is this handled in the open source community?
Re:great (Score:3, Interesting)
Urkh (Score:2, Interesting)
I hate to say it, but other than a bit of glitz in the combat (The shields look about like they did for WC3, which is a step up on Privateer, at least) this game looks like crap.
I'm not sure how they can characterize this as 1.0, all things considered. I mean, I get graphics corruption just on the launch screen, not to mention the apparent non-function of the game start menu (is there one? I didn't see one, I just randomly hit keys after the last loaded image until something happened)
I loved the original game, and I suspect that if this one were cleaned up a bit, it'd be as good, but right now it's fricken 'orrible.
Re:According to wcnews.com they have a trademark s (Score:1, Interesting)
As one of the original programmers (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Privateer remake complete? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Escape Velocity? (Score:5, Interesting)
Now that I am leet enough to have both MacOS and Windows machines, I should probably download this remake and check it out. It sure looks like fun.
mcb [ambrosiasw.com]
Re:copyright? (Score:1, Interesting)
(I helped a bit making the game ^-^ )
been a long 6 years (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:copyright? (Score:3, Interesting)
Especially seeing as how EA has all but killed off Ultima, first by exerting pressure to change the game style (see Ultima 8's arcade jumping) and then rushing an unfinished Ultima to release (Ultima 9). Lastly, the one remaining Ultima product is Ultima Online which has seen two seperate updated versions killed as well.
Go EA!