Freespace 2
by Interplay Productions
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Video Game Reviews of Freespace 2
Customer Review: Are you serious?
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay I've had this game for a few years now and still play it on occassion. It is that good of a game.In fact in my opinion its the one flight sim worth playing. But I was looking here on amazon and two seller's were selling Freespace 2 for 149.00! Yeah it's a good game but is it that good. do people really pay that much for this game? If they do, or you are reading this and are interesting in buying it I have a copy that I can part with for a price and it won't be 150 bucks (100 sounds good). Contactme if you are interestedCustomer Review: Good but not perfect
Summary: 3 Stars
Freespace 2 has a lot going for it. It's a model space flight simulation. You spend almost all your time flying and fighting with great controls, there's good AI both for enemies and your wing, graphics and sound are very good also. Additionally there's good multi-tiered story although part of it remains unresolved at the end. Some of the briefings that advance the story, introduce new weapons and review mission objectives can drag a little too long.
But as I finish the single player campaign what sticks in my mind isn't the good above but the disappointments. Most of the game takes place in a large nebula. Multi-colored 'gas' and lens flare effects fill the screen, the result feeling like playing with a large flashlight in your eyes. It doesn't improve the gameplay it just irritating. Most missions are the straight 'kill everything' type. Other missions seem designed to frustrate you. For example one mission requires you to fly a series of waypoints that are basically in a straight line. The catch is you can't see the next way point from your current one so if you waver off course you become hopelessly lost and have to start over. Finally a handful of missions are usually difficult, pitting you solo against a large number of enemies or timed with unclear objectives.
Apart from a badly-scratched install disc I had no trouble running the game in Windows 98. Nothing I tried would get the game to install in Windows 2000.
Customer Review: Absolutely Incredible
Summary: 5 Stars
I just got a hankering to re-install this game. Freelancer got a little stale for me and Tachyon didn't have enough to keep me playing after I beat it. So after more than two years of not playing this game, I am finding it to be incredible. The graphics are crisp, sound is incredible, controls incredibly responsive, gameplay complex enough for me, and storyline is pretty darn deep (especially for a game of this type). Plus... the game can pretty much go on forever with the FRED2 editor and there are VAST numbers of community created mods, featuring both sorte missions and full length campaigns.Customer Review: Wonderful Game
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a great game I would recommend it to everyone.Customer Review: Best Space Sim Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
While there arn't all that many space sim games worth playing anymore, or any new ones being made(that I know of), This is the best one that exists, period. Although I've played almost all the others worth playing (except freelancer) this one remains the best. Although now that its garphics are dated and it doesn't really offer anything new to to the genre, it more importantly doesn't add anything bad either. The missions are well thought out and more diverse than other games. The ship selection is awesome, more than 20 ships, about 40 distictly different weapons, and great weapon effects. The ships are modeled very nicely, even by todays standards. The story is fast paced and by itself gives you reason to want to keep playing clear through the night (no joke). The capital ships are HUGE, the largest one being about 15,000 times the size of your fighter! The action is intense and NEVER gets boring or repeditive, the voice acting is great, the mission designer is relatively simple, the cutscenes are beautiful, and the only problem with this game is that there's no expansion pack for it with more missions to play (the campaing gets boring after the 3rd or 4th tome through). In my opinion the game's worth whaterver you have to pay for it, ... for a 3 year old game would be worth it, don't hessitate to get it.