Independence Day Online: Difference between revisions

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Independence Day Online (or ID4 Online) is a multiplayer arena space shooter created by Mythic Entertainment. It launched in 2000, and was closed down in 2006 ^[1]. The only stills and footage of the game that have so far been discovered are official publicity materials.

It was part of the subscription gaming site mothershipgames.com, and required a subscription to play. A free month was given away with the Region 1 Five Star Collection DVD of the movie, and Disc 2 of that set also contained a short trailer for the game^[2].

According to Mythic co-founder Mark Jacobs, Independence Day Online was the worst online game the company made during his tenure.^[3]

Previews

PC Joker (.de) (September 2000)
Level (.ro) (October 2000)

Trailer

Trailer (extracted from Region 1 DVD of the movie)

Documentation

User manual (extracted from stub installer found on the Wayback Machine)

References

[1] ttps://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/id4-online

[2] ttp://archive.thedigitalbits.com/reviews/id4se.html

[3] ttps://massivelyop.com/2016/11/19/the-game-archaeologist-mark-jacobs-on-mythics-early-online-games-part-2/

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 '''Independence Day Online''' (or '''ID4 Online''') is a multiplayer arena space shooter created by Mythic Entertainment. It launched in 2000, and was closed down in 2006 <ref>https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/id4-online</ref>. The only stills and footage of the game that have so far been discovered are official publicity materials.