#Tachyon the fringe driver
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Or, you can check the galactic map to see whereabouts in the galaxy you are at the moment. From within the base you can choose read the TNS news bulletins, which are pretty much the same every time you play but do serve to give a little bit of back story. You start the game with a fairly basic ship, docked at a starbase in the Sol system, with a few credits in your pocket. Unexpectedly, this is not a queue for an galaxy roaming game, but a 3D shoot-em-up which has more in common with X-Wing than with Elite. You can count on running into pretty much all of these characters as you try to earn your living in the Fringe. Also populating this area of space are bunch of colonists known as the Bora who are striving for their independence, the employees of Galcop, a territory hungry corporation, a good few pirates, and some slightly odd characters who have set themselves up as Barons and Baronesses of the new land. This is where things really get interesting. Things are going pretty well for you until you're framed for a crime you didn't commit (cue A-Team music) and find yourself exiled to the Fringe, the outer reaches of space, far away from Earth. You play a space pilot, who just happens to sound exactly like Bruce Campbell, with a ludicrously gung-ho attitude and a penchant for fancy flying. The end result of this is that while things are all happy and fluffy around Earth, further out in the galaxy things are a bit messier, with pirates, colonists and mega-corporations all at each others throats and lawlessness generally prevailing.

#Tachyon the fringe free

In fact, they've had pretty much a free reign to expand ever outwards - a little like the Wild West, albeit without the Indians. Nor have they apparently encountered any face hugging xenomorphs or other creatures. That's no big surprise in itself, but what might come as a surprise, especially to any alien-hugging readers, is that the colonists found absolutely no breathlessly evil alien forces waiting to crush them. The premise behind Tachyon: The Fringe is that some time in the far future, in a time period that I can't be bothered to look up in the manual, mankind has colonized space. In fact, it's a rather decent space shoot-em-up. So it should come as something of a relief to learn that while Bruce Campbell lends his voice to Tachyon: The Fringe from Novalogic, the game itself is not cack or even mediocre. And as for Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun, not even James Earl Jones's presence could stop the game from being utterly mediocre. Unfortunately, for game punters in particular, the game was so bad that this was like putting a bikini on a rotting baboon and trying to enter it for Miss Universe.

#Tachyon the fringe driver

Take Jurassic Park: Trespasser - this title featured Minnie Driver doing the voice for the main character. Having a star's name associated with a game is no guarantee that the game will be even approaching decent. Some punters may even buy said games thinking they're in for a quality title. There's also the danger that games companies will start thinking they are justified in putting out mediocre games just because a star name is attached, relying on the star's name to sell the game. Why? Because it means the money being given to said star isn't being spent on games development or testing for a start. That is, a trend which does nothing for the games industry. And somewhat oddly, a new trend is emerging, of getting big name Hollywood actors in to do the voices for games. Mercifully, this has changed as most in-game voice-overs these days are of a high quality featuring voice actors who actually have some semblance of talent. In the early days of CD-ROM, said voice overs were not always of a particularly high quality in fact many games featured performances that were less impressive than your average school nativity play.

#Tachyon the fringe Pc

Since the advent of CD-ROM, it's become the status quo for PC games to feature voice-overs.