Star Control 2 - Part 21 - Overlooked Oldies
73Star Control 2 aka The Ur-Quan Masters is a project that recreated this great old game from the original 3D0 source code into a form that can run on modern PCs. It's apparently exactly the same as the old game, so it's more of a rebuild than a remake.
Anyway, it's much bigger than I expected, an epic space adventure with imaginative aliens, free roaming gameplay, resource gathering, and of course space combat.
In the early stages, I didn't actually get into much space combat, but even so it was still very enjoyable.
For strange legal reasons it apparently has to officially be called The Ur-Quan Masters, but we all know that it's Star Control 2
The game is free so here's the link if you want to download it:
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
This is a request by ModernRelik on my 128 subscriber special.
Star Control 2 on Moby Games:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/star-control-ii
"Overlooked Oldies" is a series of let's play videos of retro games that I somehow never played back in the day. Many of them will be suggestions made by subscribers, particularly on binary milestone request videos.
Intro music is from the classic "cracktro" by SCoopex. The full version can be heard and seen here:
http://flashtro.com/page.php?id=188
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