Good space shooters?

[Glo]

Hi there.

Anyone knows of good free space-shooter games the kind of Xenon, Raiden, etc? Is this genre long gone now or what?

Thanks.

[Druckles]

http://www.brainchannels.com/Memory/games/gamemedia/chaos.gif

Chaos.

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[Gargantou]

All the Elite game, Elite, Frontier: Elite 2, Frontier: First Encounters, they are old(90s) but still unsurpassed in terms of scope and size imo, they're all freeware these days.

[Narvi]

Freespace 2. Get the SCP for it and you get funky Dx9 graphics for the best spaceshooter in existence.

[MRG]

Freespace 2. Get the SCP for it and you get funky Dx9 graphics for the best spaceshooter in existence.

I have to agree with you. FreeSpace 2 was an amazing space shooter.

A few sites to try.
http://www.spaceshooter.com/
http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/fspaceshooter.html
http://www.gamexzone.com/space_shooter_game_download.htm

There are many more if you want.

-MRG

[CyberPitz]

The original X-Wing, and Descent were great games, I thought. I still randomly play Descent 2.

[Ennui]

All of the Descent and Freespace titles, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter although that's ancient, FREELANCER

[Shakermaker]

To go off-topic a bit: are there any space sims / shooters currently in production that seem to be worthwile? The only real big titles in the genre in the last 5 years seem to be have been Freelancer and the X-series. Loved the former, however shallow it was, and couldn't get into any games of the latter.

[TheDude]

Does anyone know if Freespace 2 is freeware yet?

[Shakermaker]

Does anyone know if Freespace 2 is freeware yet?

I think so: clicky (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started%28Main%29).

[Cornerstone]

Wing Commander series.

[TheDude]

I think so: clicky (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started%28Main%29).

Gracias!

[Gargantou]

The Star Wars: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM and TIE Fighters Collector's CD-ROM games were great.

You have to have a joystick to use'em properly though, and they're MS-DOS so might be a bit difficult to set up if you aren't familiar with DOSBox.

[Glo]

Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm actually more interested in those fast paced vertically-scrolling Space Invaders kind of arcade games, rather than space simulators. Still, some of these are really great games.

[theotherguy]

I coded a space shooter myself called Zaxar.

Unfortunatley its in Java, so posting it on the internet is difficult. I need to learn how to convert it into an applet.

Here's a very poorly made video capture of a very old version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEpRUHwkL8

[Mikael Grizzly]

Starlancer and Starmageddon 2.

[Ennui]

Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm actually more interested in those fast paced vertically-scrolling Space Invaders kind of arcade games, rather than space simulators. Still, some of these are really great games.

Geometry Wars.

[Pesmerga]

Freelancer!

[Somefool]

Tyrian2000

[Gargantou]

Geometry Wars.I can't stress this enough, awesome games.

[Higlac]

Starfield.
And even if you don't like space sims, get Freespace. it makes you think.

[Baserape>]

BSG-BTRL (http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/)

[Dan]

Star Ranger