I guess there’s a lid on things until the contract is signed. MicroProse didn’t start any of these titles, AFAIK.
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Seems like they only act as a publisher for those titles. I wonder if they are cooking something themselves (besides that WW2 flight sim).
Maybe they will reacquire the license for Falcon 4 next and release BMS work commercially? That would make many folks angry…
On the other hand I wouldn’t mind getting another F-15 Strike Eagle, F-14 Fleet Defender, F-117 Nighthawk or Harrier Jump Jet - lite sim realisticly grounded (not arcadey but not too complex - we don’t need another “never finished” complex sim). Maybe give TK some funds to work something out with the SF2 engine?
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I like your thoughts here!
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Now that’s the best idea I’ve heard in a while…
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a cooperative B-17 sim in VR!? Sign me up!!!
B-17 Flying Fortress simulators were among the old publisher’s biggest hits, so a co-operative VR title about flying one of these iconic aircraft is in the works.
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Me too! I mean at first, I was skeptical; I thought maybe someone had acquired the Microprose name and was aiming to do a quick cash grab. But watching the trailer for TFA instantly brought me back to the early '90s and I can see the Microprose signature. Very cool!
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Dream.
Come.
True.
!
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Looking at the atypical screenshots for those 3 titles made no sense to me…until I saw MPS is just publishing these.
A third on the “wow, Microprose 2.0 just might be the real deal…” train now. Soooooooper Pysched for Sea Power; it’s looking to be EXACTLY what I hoped the successor to Cold Waters would be.
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Interview with David Lagettie and Bill Stealey on the new Microprose
Not a lot of specifics about what they’re working on, but a general goal and vision of where they want to go. I sure hope they can pull it off!
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Great read. I have high hopes for this. They even want to release games in boxes manuals that you can actually touch!
Some highlights that cought my eye:
Out of contex from Wild Bill:
I don’t think there are any business mistakes we have to avoid, and I don’t think the mil-sim went away. I think some of the bigger companies found ways to make shoot-’em-ups and they sold. Here comes Call of Duty one. I still have it on my computer, for God’s sake. But I think the issue is, you have to figure out where you’re competing. Am I competing because I have the best graphics in the entire world? There are flight simulators out right now that look beautiful, but there’s no game. You don’t have to sneak under the radar in your F-117 and complete the mission and get home and get cheered in the bar. They look beautiful, but they suck! I’m sorry.
GamesBeat: I do wonder whether there are some big properties here that are no longer really MicroProse properties, like Civilization. Are there are some others worth noting?
Lagettie: The other biggest one to note would be Falcon, which is held by Tommo. I’m certainly in talks with those people. But again, we really are looking forward on — it’s great from a nostalgia point of view to go back and remake earlier games, but it’s not my intention to go back and rebuild the majority of those games at all. We might build games that supersede them, or we might call them spiritual successors. If I think it’s right for MicroProse then we’ll go that way. Every second email is about Falcon 5 or this or that. But let’s just see.
DCS has an incredible F-16 simulation. It’s mind-blowing how good they are. Our games with MicroProse, we’ll go down a slightly different route. Like Bill said, flying under the radar, knocking out your targets, coming back and sitting there with your buddies having some beers, that’s what we want to see in MicroProse. You want to get rewarded. You want to know about your wingman and his wife. We want these stories. We want these games to be alive.
Stealey: I do want the bar scene.
Lagettie: You’re going to get that bar scene. It’s getting built. Don’t worry.
Stealey: I don’t know if you ever saw that, but in F-19, if you did badly, you were in the bar all by yourself. If you did well, all the guys would be there partying with you.
Are they just hinted at F-19/F-117 remake? 
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They hinted at a combat flight sim.
Whether it’s an F16 or F15E or what (not an F19, but maybe an F35?) is less important to them than how the game feels.
I can’t say I disagree. The old sims had a different aim than the 21st century Russian-made ones. They have leaned on technical accuracy but less soul. As Bill said here, he cares far more about the soul, about the feeling of being that pilot and fighting to both survive and succeed, and then coming home to well-deserved accolades that are more than just a picture of a medal.
It will be good to have sims like that on the market again, like Strike Eagle and Gunship and Comanche. The new Comanche is nothing like the old one, it’s more like a space shooter that’s just in the air instead.
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I am interested in this whole beer drinking aspect…want to know more…How much beer? What kind? How much beer? Will there be some Imports or just domestic? How much beer? …and umm …How much beer? 
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The new F-35 Panther sim - just imagine how much virtual beer it can carry in that weapons bay!
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Naturally for a pilot of your ability, all of it ! 
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Another title announced to become part of the new Microprose family.
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