Frontier - Elite 2 (PC)

The sequel to the best-selling space trade and combat simulator ‘Elite,’ voted best game of the 80s on the BBC Micro and early Amigas, Frontier surpasses its predecessor in every way. And a good job too, considering it was five years in the making. David Braben’s epic and mind-numbingly vast game puts you in the pilot seat of your own space craft, docked in one of several selectable locations throughout the Milky Way galaxy. And that’s it. From the start, the choice of gameplay is yours: will you lead the quiet life, trading between star systems to afford those upgrades and larger, faster ships? Or will you do some illegal mining and blast the cops out of the ...

Many moons ago there was a game called Elite, released on such machines as the BBC Micro, and what a game it was! Modern gamers may wonder what on earth I'm talking about, but to other, older members of the gaming society, Elite may well be ranked as one of their favourite games. The magic of the game has never quite been matched, and although technology wise it is very basic, Elite is an all time classic. It was a hunt for a modern day version of Elite that led me to this game, Elite 2 - Frontiers. Even this game isn't particularly modern, first being released in 1993, and although there is another later game in the Elite series, it is generally ...

When I look back at my life, I realise that I have wasted an awful lot of it. Why? There are many reasons but one of them is playing computer games in the late 80's and early 90's. I remember getting that second hand Amiga 500 along with a bunch of games. Elite took pride of place amonst these. This Firebird game was cutting edge stuff when it came out. Just mentioning the Thargiods and their polygon ships can still make me cringe; and the thought of manual docking terrifies me. Oops! Sorry, I'm starting to ramble. Basically, Elite was a superb game where you were given a spaceship equivilent of a ford escort mark I and had to make money, ...