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What's Freespace 2. A FPS or a Combat Flight Sim?

FS2...

  • ...is a FPS

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • ...is a space combat flight sim

    Votes: 17 94.4%
  • Total voters
    18
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willy_principal

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What's Freespace 2?.
(I'm using this clasification: http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/computer_and_video_game_genres )
A First-Person Shooter?
or a Space Combat Flight Simulator?

It's pace is fast and it requires quick reflexes, and it gives a shit about real phisycs.
On the other hand, we are piloting a ship in space.
 
Uh...a FPS? Are you crazy? A FPS? How on earth could Fs2 be a FPS?!

Fs2 isn't a flight simulator or a FPS. Fs2 is, quite simply, a Space-Action Sim.
 
i think it fits better as a FPS mainly because simulators are supposed to realisticaly simulate real-life activities. FS2 doesn't do that. Neither the 'real-life activity' thing (we are piloting combar spacecrafts...get the idea...) or the 'reallistically simulate' (Freespace 2 gives a shit about Physics [you can hear the sound, etc]...so...there is no realism)
 
I can't believe some of you even have to think about this...
 
the wiki is inherantly flawed, in that it's maintained by the retards on the internet.

Hell, I'll add the genre now if I want :p
 
Don't be difficult, dude. It's pretty much the same thing, if you think about it.

Action- Fighting, blowing things up

Combat- Fighting, blowing things up

Other Space Combat/Action/whatever Sims.


  • Freelancer- Either reviled or revered by most, has a free-roaming RPG aspect to it.

  • Tie Fighter- A good ol' classic Space Simulation. Die, for the Empire!

  • X-Wing: Alliance - Tons of ships, the definitive StarWars sim.
 
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That it is. I've never thought of Fs2 as a FPS, though. I usually consider a FPS as a game in which you run around on the ground with a gun.
 
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Freespace is a space combat game first and simulation second.

Of course, being a simulation doesn't mean your simulating something that actually exists; it can be an abstract model (which, in terms of physics, FS defo is).
 
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