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Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: aldo_14 on January 30, 2002, 05:21:00 am

anyone heard of this?

It's a fairly decent (not great) starship game, which has a huge gaming area and, as well as varioyus types of ship combat, an FPS section for sending marines to planets.

Just wondering if anyone had played it, and if it was worthwhile - especially compared to IWar2.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: delta_7890 on January 30, 2002, 05:29:00 am

I almost bought this, but decided I should read some reviews before-hand.  It looked really cool, all of these different genres rolled into one, but it looked to good to be true.  Apparently, it was.  Most review scores gave it anywhere from 3.5-6 on a 1-10 scale.  In retrospect, FS2 and IW2 got 7.5-9.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: NeoHunter on January 30, 2002, 05:37:00 am

Is there a web site for the game?

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: aldo_14 on January 30, 2002, 05:45:00 am

 

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Originally posted by delta_7890:
I almost bought this, but decided I should read some reviews before-hand.  It looked really cool, all of these different genres rolled into one, but it looked to good to be true.  Apparently, it was.  Most review scores gave it anywhere from 3.5-6 on a 1-10 scale.  In retrospect, FS2 and IW2 got 7.5-9.

True..i saw 72%.  But I-War 2 'only' got 85% in the same mag, so I was just wondering if anyone had tried it...

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Nico on January 30, 2002, 07:55:00 am

Isn't that Derek Smart's game?

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Ryx on January 30, 2002, 08:43:00 am

If they're talking about Battlecruiser Millenium ("http://www.bc3000ad.com/products/bcm.shtml"), then yes.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Nico on January 30, 2002, 08:59:00 am

Well, I dunno what to think about this series... 3000Ad, i've played it, and it was a pain...

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Ryx on January 30, 2002, 09:03:00 am

 

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Originally posted by venom2506:
Well, I dunno what to think about this series... 3000Ad, i've played it, and it was a pain...

I tried the milleniun demo, a few months ago. Still a pain IMO.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: aldo_14 on January 30, 2002, 09:31:00 am

Battleship 300Ad is available from www.theunderdogs.org ("http://www.theunderdogs.org")  for free, although I have no idea what it is , or how old it is.... I just read this in a magazine, bTw  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Ryx on January 30, 2002, 09:44:00 am

You can d/l it from the official site too ("http://www.bc3000ad.com").

d/l page ("http://www.bc3000ad.com/downloads/bc3k.shtml").

[This message has been edited by Ryx (edited 01-30-2002).]

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: aldo_14 on January 30, 2002, 10:03:00 am

Hmm... the original was published by Interplay  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)

Shame it's a big D/L - sounded interesting.

It's also pretty refreshing that they listed the bad reviews on the website, alongside the good ones.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: vadar_1 on January 30, 2002, 04:28:00 pm

battleship millenium, isn't that in TA?

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: ZylonBane on January 30, 2002, 06:00:00 pm

 

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Originally posted by aldo_14:
Battleship 300Ad is available

CRUISER. BattleCRUISER 3000 AD.

And yes, anyone with an interest in space sims has heard of it. The author, Derek Smart, is one of the most infamous characters in the game development community.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Unknown Target on January 30, 2002, 06:05:00 pm

Actually, both those releases weren't supposed to be out.
The big, bad, corporate paper-pushers decided the game was taking too long, and shoved it out the door too soon.
Right now, he's working on the game some more, perfecting it.
Kinda sounds like *shudder* Daikatana, doesn't it (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)?

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 30, 2002, 06:21:00 pm

Aldo: You go there, too? Man, now I gotta watch the repetitive material...

And yes, that's the freeware version, but don't you think it'd be nice, if you're not going to encourage corporate use of freeware by paying for the new version, at least not to go around telling everyone else how to screw one of the only corps I can think of that DOESN'T deserve to be screwed?

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The title says it all.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: phreak on January 30, 2002, 06:27:00 pm

 

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Originally posted by ZylonBane:
The author, Derek Smart, is one of the most infamous characters in the game development community.

What is the link to his ranting page?  If you thought the people at your local asylum are bad, take another look...

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Nico on January 30, 2002, 06:51:00 pm

 

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Originally posted by ZylonBane:

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Originally posted by aldo_14:
Battleship 300Ad is available

CRUISER. BattleCRUISER 3000 AD.

And yes, anyone with an interest in space sims has heard of it. The author, Derek Smart, is one of the most infamous characters in the game development community.[/B]

Indeed. He's a dumba$$.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on January 31, 2002, 06:46:00 am

 

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Originally posted by venom2506:
Indeed. He's a dumba$$.

But persistent. The day he gets it right he'll have a major hit on his hands.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: aldo_14 on January 31, 2002, 07:32:00 am

 

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Originally posted by Stryke 9:
Aldo: You go there, too? Man, now I gotta watch the repetitive material...

And yes, that's the freeware version, but don't you think it'd be nice, if you're not going to encourage corporate use of freeware by paying for the new version, at least not to go around telling everyone else how to screw one of the only corps I can think of that DOESN'T deserve to be screwed?

Go where?

And, er, I'm not going to buy a game when I can get a similar version for free beforehand....

Plus, I've never heard of Derek Smart.  Read into that what you will.  Nice game idea/concept, though.

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Nico on January 31, 2002, 01:22:00 pm

 

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Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80:

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Originally posted by venom2506:
Indeed. He's a dumba$$.

But persistent. The day he gets it right he'll have a major hit on his hands.[/B]

but will this ever happen?

Title: Battleship Millenium
Post by: Alphakiller on January 31, 2002, 07:52:00 pm

So tempted to post the Desktop Commander movie ...