Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts’ next-generation PC-exclusive flight combat sandbox Star Citizen has generated a lot of user interest; interest that can be directly translated to money. So far, it’s amassed an incredible $10 million in crowd-funding. And here’s a look at it, via a faux advert for one of the game’s ship manufacturers.
Take a look at the ORIGIN Jumpworks 300 Series line of spacecraft – and gawk at the fact that the whole thing is rendered in-engine. that would be Crytek’s CryEngine 3, by the way. No word if it’s rendered in real-time though – but that would be pretty amazing.
Expect a lot more of this in the coming weeks. anyone else getting really, really excited about this?
Last Updated: June 24, 2013
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
June 24, 2013 at 13:03
Oh my word. *drool*
That looks amazing. My poor PC would die trying to render that lol
LordCaptainAwesomeness
June 24, 2013 at 13:18
One game i WILL be spending Randela’s on….
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
June 24, 2013 at 13:30
Indeed!
LordCaptainAwesomeness
June 24, 2013 at 13:31
What version to get though?… choices choices
Captain Minion TallTwit
June 24, 2013 at 13:25
My old PC might hemorrhage if I play that video on it.
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
June 24, 2013 at 13:30
Whahahahahaha
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
June 24, 2013 at 13:58
Your inferior NVidia, yes, my superior AMD, no
Lord Chaos
June 24, 2013 at 14:05
Ditto. Cannot wait to start flying in space again.
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
June 24, 2013 at 14:17
lol
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
June 24, 2013 at 14:19
😉
Slade Boender
June 24, 2013 at 13:07
Crap. Can anyone else smell a pc upgrade coming :/
Sir Twakkus
June 24, 2013 at 13:16
Tel me about it. My kidneys are already fighting over who is going to be donated!
Captain Minion TallTwit
June 24, 2013 at 13:44
ROFL!
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
June 24, 2013 at 13:30
Yep. Now if you will kindly just step in to that bathtub filled with ice there. This won’t hurt a bit.
OminousRain
June 24, 2013 at 14:12
But now, if you do get a new PC, you have something proper to test it with 🙂
Slade Boender
June 24, 2013 at 14:41
true true
Darthdad
June 24, 2013 at 13:13
This and Oculus Rift = sorted!
Warren Ross
June 24, 2013 at 13:13
This (the space-sim) is the only genre of game that I have actively missed since the decline of its heyday. It would be awesome to get behind a joystick and head off into the stars once more!
Trevor Davies
June 24, 2013 at 13:14
I have one of those. I’m flying in style, bitches!
Captain Minion TallTwit
June 24, 2013 at 13:24
For shizzle my nizzle.
WernerE
June 24, 2013 at 13:26
Sold! Any word on a release date?
Trevor Davies
June 24, 2013 at 13:29
If I remember right, official release is only next year some time. In a few months they’re releasing a hanger module where you can mess around with your ship, then a few months after that a dog fighting beta.
Lourens Jordaan
June 24, 2013 at 13:34
I’ll be getting this as soon a……. Nope PC exclusive…. sucks to be me.
Ultimo_Cleric N7
June 24, 2013 at 13:42
Yus.
I just remembered why moving away from PC was a hard decision. Got caught up in the console wars and forgot about this.
Wow…..amazing.
Kobus Nel
June 24, 2013 at 13:42
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jo2iPOOM1qkqwol.gif
OminousRain
June 24, 2013 at 14:13
LOL
Skoobaz
June 24, 2013 at 13:47
You have NO idea!
Can
Not
WAIT!
FoxOneZA - X-Therminator
June 24, 2013 at 13:56
This what I call next-gen!!! This and Project Cars shows that gamers can fund developers directly without the need of middlemen. Or should that be meddle-men?
OminousRain
June 24, 2013 at 14:13
From Meddle-Earth 🙂
Kromas
June 24, 2013 at 14:24
The minute I heard Origin my mind went to a dark dark place. Ship will crash shortly after takeoff cause of software malfunctions. 😛
Johan du Preez
June 24, 2013 at 15:01
There was a time that there was no better name in gaming than Origin owned by the creator of the Ultima universe Richard Garriot. I am sure Chris is having a poke at EA with this trailer as they took the Origin name and tried to copy steam and failed badly and now everyone hates the name.
Origin is also the creator of MMO’s as they released the first ever MMO called Ultima Online and thats where EA started raping them.
Needless to say EA killed it in the late 90’s when they decided Origin should be a online only MMO developer and in 2004 they closed the studio.
Kromas
June 24, 2013 at 15:20
Yeah I also shudder at the name Peter Molyneux yet he brought me great joy years ago with Populous and Dungeon Keeper. Lord British made the Origin name great but unfortunately people usually only remember the bad. Hence when I heard Origin the only thing I could think of was the steam ripoff thats still after two years (I think) called a Beta.
Johan du Preez
June 24, 2013 at 17:26
Yeh same here when i hear Origin i also think of that piece of crap drm steam ripoff …. quite sad really that they managed to ruin the name in under a year 🙂
Mark Treloar
June 25, 2013 at 07:20
Except that Freelancer was published by Microsoft and was developed by Digital Anvil and had nothing to do with EA whatsoever.
Johan du Preez
June 25, 2013 at 08:37
Good point for some reason I thought that was still with EA and Origin my bad 🙂
Brady miaau
June 24, 2013 at 15:58
I am loving it
Stop with the negative waves, please.
This will be Legend-ary. Without waiting for it. Oh, ok, so how much longer till we actually get to play spacey goodness?
Joe Bold
June 24, 2013 at 17:31
The final release is aimed for january 2015. But for all backers there will be several beta modules. Starting with the hangar module in August (GamesCom). After that there will be the dog-fight module and so on.
Better start backing this project before it is too late. 😉
Brady miaau
June 25, 2013 at 09:40
thanks, sounds good
Johan du Preez
June 24, 2013 at 17:33
Just shows you that you dont need 5000 people working on a game to produce a quality AAA title… all it takes is passion and a few skilled developers.
I can almost guarantee this is going to be up for game of the year 2014 if its released by then.
R4geGam3r
June 24, 2013 at 19:59
My GTX 670 is ready..or is it. Welp
Mark Treloar
June 25, 2013 at 09:37
when you run the game, it will give you a link to buy a second one before continuing.