FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project
Some notable original mods and campaigns have been created, such as "Wings of Dawn" which takes place in an anime-style world, and "Blue Planet" which offers a continuation of "Freespace 2", telling of a civil war between Earth and the GTVA. "The FreeSpace Port", sometimes called FSPort, ports the original "Descent: FreeSpaceThe Great War" to the "FreeSpace 2" and SCP engine with many graphical enhancements, and serves as a base for many mods set in the FreeSpace: Great War era, such as "Shrouding the Light" and "Awakenings". "Silent Threat: Reborn" similarly ports the "Silent Threat" expansion for Descent: Freespace into the Freespace 2 SCP engine.
Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated "Descent: FreeSpace" for its 1998 "Simulation Game of the Year" award, although it lost to "". "Descent: FreeSpace" was a finalist for "Computer Games Strategy Plus"s "Sci-Fi Simulation of the Year" and "Computer Gaming World"s "Best Space Sim" awards in 1998, both of which ultimately went to "I-War". The editors of "Computer Gaming World" called it "an excellent game, featuring some of the best wing-man AI to hit the genre, but it was too derivative of previous space sims." "PC Gamer US" nominated it as the year's best action game, and its editors wrote that ""Freespace" came from nowhere to wrest the 3D space combat crown from the "Wing Commander" series with style." However, this award went to "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six".