Infinity: The Space Sim to End All Space Sims

Whether you were a fan of Freelancer, X3, Eve Online, Jumpgate, or any of the other space sims we've seen come and go over the years, one thing is for certain... you haven't seen anything yet.  Are you as tired as I am of instances?  Are you tired of flying your starship past a planet only to be kept from getting to close?  Have you played a game where your starship, supposedly millions of times smaller than the planet your approaching, got to close and bounced off?  If you've suffered any of these truths Infinity: The Quest for Earth is here to comfort you.

The most striking thing about this game is its scale.  You can actually fly your ship past a space station, see a planet in the distance and think, "I'm going to enter its atmosphere, find a continent, and land my ship there."  The tech demos you'll notice below are from April 2010, so they are rather recent.  I've been following this game's development for just over two years now and I've been impressed with their vision and progress.  One gem of this video, aside from showcasing the ability to enter and leave a planet's atmosphere, is a planet with rings much like Saturn.  And, realistically, the closer the starship gets to these rings, the less they look like actual rings and the more they look like large collections of space rock and debris maintaining a steady orbit.  The scale is so impressive that each individual asteroid within the ring can be examined closely.

Now, this type of scale is impressive by any standards, yes.  But, we have yet to see what happens when  you start factoring in other variables.  For example, Infinity is supposed to be a multiplayer game, and yet we see very little of how multiplayer can work within a game world of this scale.  Also, while the planet terrains are impressively varied, there is very little representation of civilizations.  Hopefully, the game world will consist of more than large planets with absolutely no life.

Not convinced by my words of hype?  Watch the videos for yourself.