Let's Discuss Space Sims

Currently i'm enjoying Independence War 2 - The Edge of Chaos (or I-War2 in short). In the past, i've played games like Freelancer, X2: The Threat, X-Wing/Tie-Fighter series and some Wing Commander and I have to say this game holds so much more awesomeness then the ones mentioned above.

The reason I like this game is because it's the first game i've played using Newtonian physics which makes flying hard but on the other hand very realistic as you have to deal with the forces constantly. Also, the space presented in I-War2 is HUGE. Luckily you have jump-drives but this doesn't take away long travels. I like the way they made the distances, it's much more realistic. Recently, I had to travel for around 4 billion kilometres. I've never seen this in any space-sim before. Wrapped together with high, but challenging difficulty and a nice story, this is just the game you don't want to miss. I've seen this game in the bargain bin years ago and never imagined it would be this great.

Another good game that was recommended to me is Starshatter. It's supposed to be very much like Elite (which I never played) and also allows you to enter the atmosphere and fly over the planet's surface. That alone makes the game attractive to me but it's very hard to find a download.

Aside the realistic genres of space-sims I also like the combat space-sims alot. The only ones successful enough we're Conflict Freespace and the X-Wing/Tie-Fighter series. They should make new ones, they we're awesome :/

Jam it back in, in the dark.