The Babylon Project uses the improved FreeSpace 2 engine by The Source Code Project. The 'Babylon Project' is a group of dedicated individuals who are trying to bring the essence of Babylon 5 space combat to FreeSpace 2, an award winning space combat simulation from Volition Incorporated. I'd recommend the standalone Babylon Project : You can ready more about Freespace Open here:

The easiest way to setup FSO is to use Turey's installer, which is available here: This is highly recommended, as they take advantage of the new effects and higher performance of the new engine. A launcher application that is used to setup the game the same way the old launcher did.įinally, you can also download user made in-game-media (graphical upgrades) for the game. An Freespace Open 'game executable' (either 3.6.9 or if you'd like to help troubleshoot the latest release, one of the new 'knightly' executables). A legit and installed copy of Freespace 2. You will need three things to run Freespace 2 under the Freespace Open Engine. The latest stabile version of the game is 3.6.9. The Freespace Open Engine, AKA Freespace_Open, FSO, or as veterans often call it SCP (Source Code Project) was made when Volition, the developer of Freespace 1 and 2 released the source code for the game, Freespace 2.Ī team effort was soon made to unify attempts at 'refining' the Freespace 2 engine, this was the Source Code Project.Įven after years of development, the team is still goind, with the 3.6.10 version currently undergoing the final bughunt. Since this is a sticy topic for the Freespace games, this should be here too: Drove me to buying only old games and spending more time on other things. I have stopped buying games very much because I hate the DRM crap they put on my computers and which have caused me some very real and costly problems in the past. GOG is fantastic and I very much hope they do very well as it is a fabulous concept. Some strategy rather than just chaotic button mashing.Īnyway, the Freespace games are great and well worth a $6 download.

It had a very interesting combat system, too. It had some really nice in-game music and was a fun game to play, great graphics for the time. It could be updated and would be an awesome game. I wish someone would do that for SoulBringer which was a game I loved, but it had some quirks. FS2 shows what can be done and there's more coming all the time. I wish more game developers would release the source code so great games could be updated with new graphics and features. Nice graphics updates and runs well even on low end machines. Actually, I got the Freespace 2 free open version and a bunch of other stuff long before joining GOG and I can tell you that it works great and is very nice.

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