I think every kid grows up wanting to be a astronaut, if it wasn't for living in Australia (No space program, we leave it up to you guys :p), being short-sighted, slightly colour blind and having a stigmatism (yeah, my eyes are fucked!), I might have been able to follow that dream. Actually, I lie, i would still be doing a games dev degree :D

Anyway, more to the point, I have an obsession with space and certain Sci-Fi, so, obviously I like games in this genre.

So in jumps Jumpgate Evolution (sorry i couldn't resist), a space based MMO, and its got me dreaming of something akin to a Freelancer MMO. The gameplay is not classic MMO either, no point and click here. Which is good, because I am yet to get into a pont a click MMO, and I dare not try WoW because i fear the addiction. Controls are going to be old school, flight stick based or something alike.

Seriously if they used exactly the same combat system Freelancer did I would be a very, very happy man.

Story wise it seems very close to the EVE online story. People leave earth, get taken to another universe, get cut off from home, then rebuild to form different societies, in this case, 3 of them. So very much like EVE, so this is fine if they only take this element, because i hated EVE.

So far its a beautiful game too, and the engine is scalable, so people with older rigs can join in on the space pirating :D

So hopefully this project turns out well, It's very close to a definite buy for me so far. More people need to know about this, becaise I have heard next to no buzz on the interwebs, so tell your friends!