Battlestar Galactica mod of Freespace 2 underway

A mod of the new
Battlestar Galactica with the Freespace 2 game engine is currently underway and making some progress.
Click on the image to the right and you'll be directly taken to the mod's 13MB AVI trailer.

This trailer gives a better sense of how things look than the images on the mod's home page at the moment (as the navigation there is a bit broken right now), but anything to mix a fan-favorite space combat sim with the hottest sci-fi show on TV
today is definitely worth a look.

Of course, as with any total conversion or unofficial adaptation of a commercial property, there's always a chance this mod will get shut down before it ever gets released (that is, if it ever gets finished). As a retail game was made based on the old BSG continuity, this is a legitimate concern for the community developers trying to put this together. Let's hope that the licensing Lords of Kobol will look upon this effort with favor.

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See also:

• The Galactica Freespace mod site in question
• The official Sci Fi site for the new Battlestar Galactica show
• A search of Joystiq posts concerning
  "Galactica"
• PS2
  BSG reviews off of GameTab–Critics Avg.: 72.33%
• The Freespace 2 entry on Home of the Underdogs
• The Freespace Wiki
• A silver lining for fan-made
  King's Quest IX