#Oolite review Pc#
For a fan effort, it has progressed pretty quickly from basic flight simulation into a fully playable game and the PC port came out of Alpha to Beta in March this year and is now keeping up with development on the Mac version.īeing a fan-made remake of Elite, Oolite offers much the same gameplay as the original game, but naturally brings it up-to-date with modern technology. Oolite is an entirely independent interpretation and expansion of the original game.
#Oolite review for mac#
That is, until Giles Williams from Aegidian first released Oolite for Mac in 2004. It was only one of many projects that held up hopes, but ended up discarded because of various reasons. Those who have followed the discussion threads know about Elite: The New Kind that promised a lot, but was eventually discontinued and withdrawn from the Internet. With the lack of a true successor to the original title, some fans started their own pet projects to bring the game to the modern computer. If this game is unknown to you, I urge you to take a look at our Elite Retroview (in Features) before reading this preview. Even the official sequels, while they held on to the core of Elite, expanded it in ways that made them essentially different games. Many games since have attempted to capture the same atmosphere and playability that the original Elite had, but none, or almost none, have succeeded.
Marcan did not waste time but turned his ship quickly towards the next enemy.Įlite is a game, the name of which makes many old gamers sigh and remember the numerous days and weeks that they spent playing it late into the night, living the alternate life of a commander of a small spaceship. The laser beam sheared the space around the first pirate Krait until at last it found its mark and the small ship exploded in a brilliant flash. Marcan waited for a few more seconds before squeezing the trigger of his own weapons. He knew that by the time the enemy was close enough to actually hit him, their weapons would already be too hot to continue firing. The pirate Kraits fired first, impatiently, and as the beam lasers shot past Commander Marcan Wolfwood's Cobra Mk III, he smiled to himself ruefully.
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