Two Starlancer Previews For The Price of One (April 15, 2000)

[KrisV]

Let's begin with a snippet from Sharky Extreme's article.The Robertses are old hands at the space combat genre, but will their experience in creating the Wing Commander and Privateer series help them go above and beyond the successes of recent hits like FreeSpace II?The first thing that comes to mind here is that in fact Warthog (Privateer 2) developed Starlancer. The second is that 'recent hit' Freespace II has sold a grand total of 5 copies. The preview is brief, feels more like a first look, and the author has the annoying habit of putting in a 'DigitalANViL' in every other paragraph. The article sports a bunch of very dark screenshots.Gamelinks' preview is a little better, but it makes the classic mistake:Rendered as a fully 3D space combat Sim, Starlancer is being created under the direction of famous "fathers" of the space combat Sim genre, Chris and Erin Roberts (Wing Commander and Privateer series).The Warthog team really deserves a lot more credit than they're getting (they deserve all of it, but are getting none). You can find the article here.

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Original update published on April 15, 2000