Star Control 2 - Part 1 - Overlooked Oldies

Star Control 2 aka The Ur-Quan Masters is a project that recreated this great old game from the original 3D0 source code into a form that can run on modern PCs. It's apparently exactly the same as the old game, so it's more of a rebuild than a remake.

Anyway, it's much bigger than I expected, an epic space adventure with imaginative aliens, free roaming gameplay, resource gathering, and of course space combat.

In the early stages, I didn't actually get into much space combat, but even so it was still very enjoyable.

For strange legal reasons it apparently has to officially be called The Ur-Quan Masters, but we all know that it's Star Control 2

The game is free so here's the link if you want to download it:
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

This is a request by ModernRelik on my 128 subscriber special.

Star Control 2 on Moby Games:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/star-control-ii

"Overlooked Oldies" is a series of let's play videos of retro games that I somehow never played back in the day. Many of them will be suggestions made by subscribers, particularly on binary milestone request videos.

Intro music is from the classic "cracktro" by SCoopex. The full version can be heard and seen here:
http://flashtro.com/page.php?id=188

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[Fallout2Forever]

I don't know if It was the intention of video to do so, but I am now going to seek out and play this game. So thanks!

[JimPlaysGames]

@Fallout2Forever you're welcome. It's a really nifty game. There's also a speech package for all the dialogue in the game that I didn't know about until later. The voice acting in the game is great so it's worth getting that too. Hope you enjoy it.

[Trusteft]

Hilarious commentary as usual :)

I never played this game, only the first one.

[JimPlaysGames]

@Trusteft thanks :)

I think I played the original on the Megadrive, which I thought at first was this game. So I was a bit surprised to discover how large this game is.

[ModernRelik]

Hey Jim! Great to see you playing the awesome SC2! I kept trying to tell you how to do things but you couldn't hear me haha. It's really worth playing through so hopefully you will. Thanks for the mention again. If you have any recommendations for me let me know.

[JimPlaysGames]

@ModernRelik hehe yeah I've had that experience watching some blind let's plays. I will definitely be continuing this one. I love space-based sci-fi and lots of sandbox type freedom so this is exactly my sort of game.

[TheBladeJunker]

@JimPlaysGames Touche :)

[JimPlaysGames]

@TheBladeJunker well at least I get to play it now, and if I had played it before, then I would never have the opportunity to share my first impressions of it online :)

[JimPlaysGames]

@impkeeper ah thanks for the tip. Gameplay tips would be great, but I'd rather find out about most of the plot as it unfolds. I'll definitely be continuing this, but I've got a few other games on the go so not sure when. Glad you enjoyed it :)

[TheBladeJunker]

ME?, yes YOU. XD Shame you've never played it before, you deprived yourself of a lot of fun. I don't even like these type of games but I love Star Control 2. Yeah the light show going on behind him is distracting isn't it?