Saturn_V
2[H]4U
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Interstate '76
It was a car game set in a fictional seventies where the oil crisis never ended. It's kind of a non-post apocalyptic mad max.
The game's main appeal was the gameplay, the physics (for the time), the graphics, the open maps, and the salvage / upgrade mechanic. Basically you could collect wrecks after a fight and use those to upgrade / repair your car. I could say it was a mechwarrior / earthsiege but with cars instead of giant robots. But the cars in it would still use the same hardpoint mechanic that you could attach various weapons or upgrades to.
It used the Mechwarrior 2 engine- it didn't really feel like driving. It felt like flying around in fast Mechs. I did like the music, story, cutscene cinematics. But the actual driving part was a terrible failure for me.
What I want is a remake of Autoduel- but from a 1st person driving perspective. Just like Mechwarrior 2 implemented the FASA Battletech gaming universe- so should Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars rules be adapted for a 1st person combat driving sim.
Star Trek: Elite Force
Just please keep it in the TNG universe and none of this alternate timeline shit. I have no other prerequisites. Whoever is not too busy making online garbage should pick it up.
I had great fun with Elite Force back in day. I would be on board with this if they did something a la Star Wars: Republic Commando, telling a ground-pounder's story of the Klingon and Dominion War from Deep Space Nine. I wanna repel Jem'Hadar boarders on a starship.
Terminator: Future Shock / Skynet
Another opportunity for a shooter. This game was so far ahead it's time, that possibly that is what caused it's mild reception. The technology just wasn't ready for it. We didn't even have mouselook standardized.
If the Terminator franchise hadn't been dragged through the mud for the past 25 years- I'd say yes. But no one's going to want to retcon and pretend the last three movies didn't happen.
X-Wing / Tie Fighter / X-Wing Alliance
Basically a space sim in the star wars universe, sans space feminists, space peta, and hermits.
X-Wing Alliance was twenty years ago. I've given up hope that someone is going to create a Star Wars Space Sim. They'll be a game with X-Wings and TIE Fighters in it.... but it won't be a first-person space sim and it'll be dumbed down with power-ups like any FPS. I've made my peace with that.
But I would like to see Descent Freespace or Independence War come back. Those were great game universes to play in and the combat was vastly better than X-Wing's.