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A cosmic combat simulator similar to the legendary game Wing Commander. Mods and graphical mission editor are available in developer's site. Some features: hardware accelerated 3D graphics, over 20 ships, 43 missiles and guns, joystick support. It has two version: for Windows and for Linux. The Flight Commander engine was wrote special to accomodate easy modding, using standard formats for images, sounds and 3D graphics. All game stats can be changed easily with a text editors. For the more advanced missions, scripting is done with the user-friendly but powerful lua programming / scripting language. All scripting commands are well documented, and many examples are included for a variety of missions.

Some features of this game:

• Hardware accelerated 3D graphics.
• Seven camera angles.
• Heads up display with radar, target images, and other stats.
• Autopilot function, take off, and landing cut scenes.
• 3D mission briefings.
• You can configure graphics detail levels, choose your own screen resolution.
• Most of weapons have unique sounds and graphics.
• In Flight Commander ship and weapon stats based on Wing Commander game balance.
• Energy weapons and target-tracking missiles are available.
• A variety of mission types, including torpedo runs, patrol missions, assault missions, and defensive assignments.
• Full 3D accelerated surround sound. 3D sound is emulated for stereo systems. This 3D sound capability was not present in the Wing Commander series.
• All ships, weaponry, missions, briefings, mission background graphics and lighting, and campaigns can be opened easily with any text editor. It used standard XML file format.
• All graphics are stored in the standard BMP and PNG formats, editable with any paint program.
• 3D import from wavefront .obj files.
• Sounds are standard WAV and MP3 files.

Producer (Flight Commander) / Get it: download
Size: 53,2 MB / Licence: Freeware

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