Now, how is this engine related to other gametype, apart from FPS?

Is there sufficient support / function for 2D Grafix?
Or is this mainly aimed at first person 3D games.

They have a binding for a GUI system as well as for LUA, ODE, OpenAL.

But at the end I am not sure how good you can make a flight-simulation, a shooter or a racing game.

I think the current set is aimed towards shooters. They have AI, pathfinding and other functions implemented that can be used best with shooter-type of games. May be role-playing games or even FPS-Adventures would be a good possibility.

Besides that they provided a little racing demo. So it might be possible.

The goal of the Lawmaker-team is to create a next-gen engine and to deliver the best indie tool available. They have a quite big team working on it and they seem to love Doom3 and Half-Life2. They often compare their engine and tool-set with the tools from Doom3 and HL2 (and both are FPS-engines).

Their indoor-editor is a mixture of the current Doom3-Editor and a little bit like WED. WED is more easy to learn but the Doom3-Editor and the Lawmaker editor is faster (in terms of work-flow) and more efficient at the end.

CSG-cuts are no problems for those editors. It is even the opposite in the Lawmaker tool. You don't create a hollow block like in WED. You cut the block from the solid world. So there are no walls at the beginning just a hollow space covered by solid mass (after you made your first csg subtract).
And you will cut (subtract) all the next rooms from the solid mass that is around you.
This works very fast at the beginning. There are no un-needed walls.

But after that you can add brushes as well and create walls, block, cylinders, whatever.

Does it's editor allow the import of scenes from programs like Max or Maya(FBX, ect.)?

Yes. They have an import plug-in for Max, though Max is an expensive software. Because of that hey also support the ASE format (to import static meshes), also primarily an simple ASCII Max Format, but it can be produced by other modelling tools as well.

Besides that you can also use the OBJ (wavefront object) format to import static meshes.

For animations they use the Max plug-in or the CAL3D format. That can be created with tools like Blender and Milkshape. CAL3D is an open-sorce format very similar to FBX.

DEX and Frank_g

I myself purchased the Indie version some monthes ago , even though I have not yet used it on extensive basis
No doubt that the lever editor is great
However I am more programming that artistic oriented
Well ,I must say that at a first glance I have been a little disappointed
It seems that Lawmaker engine has been created for the Lawmaker game consequently it is lacking that degree of abstraction that from my point of view is a key issue for a game engine
In other words Lawmake supplies a deluge of commands most of them to implement simple function which any programmer should be able to make by himself but you wonder wether you can actually make any kind of game without having an headache
Something similar to Torque , I mean, which up to a certain extent is better than 3dgs, provide you make an fps, nothing else

This is just my gut feeling, no actual experience , as I said , what about your opinion ?

Granted no game engine is perfect but saying that you can only make an FPS with Torque is kinda silly. One game that you should look at is DreamLords. I am no Coder but you can create whatever you want with any game engine as long as the engine supports what you want to do. I have seen many games made with Torque that were not a FPS. The same thing is true for Gstudio, however it lacks alot of the features that most of Today's engines have. Law Maker, seems to be very locked into only things that pertained to that game itself. If I were a coder I would create my own engine and it would have all the things in it that all of the engines I have used did not. However Im sure that all the developers thought the same way. Just my two cents worth, GS out.

I'm quite sure it's possible to make a lot of different types of games with the Lawmaker engine, because even though it may seem more suited for fps games, there's really no actual limitation which would prevent one from programming/building a RPG, a casual game or whatever with it. (not sure about 2D qualities though) Same goes for Torque and same goes for 3dgs... Personally I don't really like programming with the Torque engine nor Lawmaker engine, but that's moreso because I'm spoiled with the ease of 3dgs's c-script.

Cheers

Once agaim, one thing is claiming " It is possible" an other thing "It is easy"
3DGS architecture ( not the c-script only) is straghtforward , in my opinion, because it has been designed from the very begininng having in mind a multu purpose engine for a vast audience of serious hobbyest and semi professional programmers
Different story for Torque
That said, Lawmaker seem really great