Moon, Mars and Beyond

[hitchcockgreen]

This looks interesting....
http://www.astronautmmo.com/dmf/

[Driving Park]

Interesting indeed, especially with the Unreal 3 engine. Now I'll have to wait for both that and this: http://automationgame.com/node/79

[Sno]

I ... am sooooo down on getting on that NASA game! I'm probably going to get the $30 version and send a license to a local school.

[Blunt Force Trauma]

MM&B seems intriguing, but it's much too early to make a decision whether or not I'd be even interested.

If it could incorporate the realistic navigation and piloting skills required in ORBITER and the amazing detail and accuracy of Celestia or MicroSoft's WorldWide Telescope with a well run MMO component, I would love to try it out.

The tenet Orbiter offers on its home page, "Fed up with space games that insult your intelligence and violate every law of physics? Orbiter is a simulator that gives you an idea what space flight really feels like." is very, very true when everything is set on realistic, and is too much for the average Joe. IMHO that is why most of these games-sims never catch on with larger audiences. The vast majority (>95%) do not want to actually learn the real world, they want a whimsical fantasy where the ships can be learned in 20 minutes and can begin blowing stuff up in 10.

[Sno]

But....Hollywood makes it look so simple!

[hitchcockgreen]

Don't listen to BFT! it's all lies!!!
Everyone knows you can just land a god damned ship on Mars by pushing two buttons.

[FirBirGir]

Pushing buttons is so yesterday...