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I still consider Elite as one of the greatest games of all time. The fact the original developers are behind this gives it a load of credibility.

It may never live up to the expectations that will be placed on it

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Only one of the original developers. Ian Bell is not involved, as far as I can tell. And I wouldn't expect him to be, given the pair had a fairly public falling out many years back.

I would also put Mercenary, Starglider and Zarch (called Virus on the Amiga) up there as some of the all-time great space combat/simulator games.

A remake/update of Starglider 2 would be most welcome.

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