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Summary: Responses to other Reviews - For you the Customer
Review: Someone complained about their computer crashing and saying they had the specs for it. One thing I will note. The bare minimum needed to run a game is not what you want. If you can buy this game then I suggest you buy a current version graphics card at least. GeForce 5200 *NV30 chipset 99dollars, new FX cards is great buy for the bang. So that review was garbage in my opinion. A lot of people state how they say it's too short. But I can guarantee they didn't appreciate the fact that this game is called Freelancer - You do whatever you want. Be it trading, running contraband, fighting for different factions. Going out elsewhere into the borderworlds which you have to do on your own and find pirate bases on your own. The game doesn't end. The initial storyline perhaps does but the game continues and you write your own stories as you travel space doing what you feel like it. Joining pirate raids on your own, finding new jump holes to new unexplored sectors that aren't on the official trade routes. A lot of it is for the more intuitive adventurous gamer who wants to Freelance on a whim. I personally have joined a pirate faction and am fighting alongside them in a private war against another pirate faction. My friend is a trader and spends his days hunting for new trade routes and trying to survive the bandits that try to rob him of his cargo. My brother is a fighter pilot. I prefer pure dogfighting. My friend is a missles expert. My brother is a laser cannon purist. This is all just the tip of the iceberg. I can guarantee that those who say its shortwinded never took a step out into unknown space to explore nor gone out into the frontier borderlands. If you want a game where theres countless groups be it military ,police, pirates, criminal syndicates, agricultural companies, corporate companies and much much more and you can choose a side and stay with it for as long as you like and join another and each has its similar counterparts in the other political spheres of the Sirius sector.. you may just love this game. Fighterpilot?Merchantman? Explorer? Feel like forming up with a passing by corporation and act as a escort on their traderoute? Trail a pirate group into empty space to find a unknown jumphole? Run contraband from a pirate base past police searches to big commercial sectors? Assassinate people? Capture and bring in known criminals? Work for companies, the military, police, pirates, for yourself! Feel like robbing someone? Go ahead! This game is what you make of it and it never truly ends. I personally love this game. It goes in my top 5 all time favorites. Being Starcraft Broodwar, Counterstrike, Morrowwind, Splintercell, along with FREELANCER !!!!! WOOOO!! Yes it doesnt have a joystick interface but hell its a great game and its intuitive. For those of you new to space games its mouse driven !! no need to purchase a joystick!! :) I recommend this game to my family and friends and acquaintances in real life ALL THE TIME. Great game. Let your mind run wild and dream.
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Summary: a rare find and catch.. the game that I just LOVE
Review: I love this game. I've been gaming for most of my life and even had a stint as a professional gamer for a year and from what I've seen this game is one of only a handful which I have truly truly enjoyed and see a long long shelf life with. Theres so many different ways to play this game in my opinion and it's so open ended it just has a place in my collection as extremely special. This game is fun with a capital F! I generally play strategy and first person shooters and rpgs.. but man I love playing a sci fi space game like this. I haven't played a space game since X-Wing and before that the WWII Aces of the Pacific fighter pilot game. I was smitten by the idea of privateer tho I never got to play it I was captured and my imagination was waiting for a game like this to come about. Hopefully Digital Anvil and Microsoft games continue to expand upon this game and make more!!!...
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Summary: Too Short Too Easy
Review: I found this game too short and two easy. It only had 13 story line missions, and I only died a handful of times, it was no challenge. I finished the game within 2 days. I still have to explore the systems, but I won't be taking on any of the missions available in the bar as they are so repetitive. I found the story line to be very engaging and interesting to play, but I thought the ending was weak, and a bit is that all there is. I didn't like how you had to follow the story line to increase your fighting ability. The game this most reminded me of was privateer, but without the variety. I like the mouse control, but I do think it does need joystick support.
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Summary: Gun For Hire
Review: After reading some of the reviews written by serious gamers, I was surprised that here the game was treated with favor. Since it looks like the game is well covered, I will keep it short. The graphics are great. Good storyline. Lots of action. The race is tough but if you practice for a while you can get it. I thought some of the later firefights were worse than the race. Only piece of advice for the fights is use your thrusters and keep moving. If you like to sit down and play for 30 minutes to an hour with great return play, this game is for you. If you are looking for perfection, try one of the other simulations.
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Summary: Privateer On Steroids
Review: After the catastrophe of Privateer II, I figured that the original Privateer was as good as it gets. I was wrong. I've been playing computer games for decades, and own quite a few that I've considered addictive. However, Freelancer takes the title as the best I've ever played. For those who are concerned with the lack of a joystick, I must say that the mouse interface is very intuitive. However, I strongly recommend having a wheel mouse for this game, as the wheel can be used for throttle control. Although I'm still in my first campaign, I foresee limitless replayability, as the player's available options are significantly based on his/her reputation with factions that vary from police to bounty hunters to rogues to merchants. Oh, and the graphics are fantastic. Enjoy!
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Summary: So much potential ... alas
Review: This is a game I looked forward to playing, even though I was never a big fan of Wing Commander nor Privateer. The pre-release buzz seemed to indicate this was a space combat sim with a strong RPG element. I was hoping for a Baldur's Gate/Neverwinter Nights in space, with a strong main plot and lots of fun mini-adventures. This is sorely lacking. The game is merely space combat upon space combat. When not flying around and fighting in the main campaign, you can take on contracts which require you, to, well, fly around and fight. The contracts never have a back story; you are always told to take on X pirate group or y pirate group. It is shocking there is any trade or organized government with the 1,000's of pirates around. No missions to recover medicines for an endangered world nor rescues nor missions that require diplomacy, just flying and fighting. The storyline is very linear so that you are forced to do all these missions to get experience before you can proceed. The voice acting by the computer run characters is awful. Apparently gajillion-aire Microsoft's voice acting budget was blown getting John Rhys Davies and George Takei, for the same man does all the male voices and same woman does the female voices. With repitious dialogue, the same thin, annoying voices gets to you. I had hoped for something much better. For anyone with imagination, they will end up feeling disappointed. I am not saying the game is not fun nor the storyline somewhat interesting, just that if you don't like games where it is non-tactical, non-RPG combat, you will not be happy.
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Summary: story could be better, and needs joystick compatibility
Review: this story starts with an odd yiew of an unknown station. then you get rocketed out. the station blows up. you become a good guy, but soon the "good guys" put you on the most wanted list for no good reason. it happens in every system, untill you are desperate for allies. then BOOOMMM!!!! you are back where you started, but with a full pardon. oh, and one more thing. Microsoft is the maker of my computer, so i won't insult them too much, but could they have had the brain capacity to make a joysick compatible game? the mouse takes away the essence of flying.
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Summary: Great Game
Review: Freelancer offers a lot for insane gamers.It will take a long time to beat and is sort of hard. It was a very unresrtictive story mode so you can do what ever you want. This is a must buy game!
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Summary: Fun but has some holes
Review: I've never been good at joystick based flight sims so the mouse for me (unlike many other reviewers here apparently) was kinda nice. The main story however isn't up to par.
1) it's too short
2) it's not all that good
3) it gets in the way of doing things on your own
In order to rise to the next level (which enables you to buy better weaps) you MUST play the main story most of the time. There are places built into the main plot where other main characters have to "do some digging" allowing you to do what you want but that only lasts for a brief moment. In order to buy the better ships and weaps you have to complete the main story. But once you do there's not much point to buying the killer weaps (if you can't use the biggest baddest weaps in the end battle what's the point? Yeah you can now blow up fighters with 2 hits but that gets awfully boring awfully fast) Good game if you enjoy blasting things (which I happen to) but not if you're looking for some real plot content.
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Summary: Great fun
Review: When I first read about the game I was really excited and when the demo came I got it as quickly as possible. I played that demo about 15 times because I had so mnuch fun. Then I bought it and even more fun! The story may be short but it's very cinematic and full of little twists. The combat is fun I think and I personally feel the mouse control is better than using a joystick because its more accurate. I didn't let the graphics affect my rating because I just turned antialising on and it looked a little better and Digital Anvil started making this game 4 years ago!
All in all I REALLY enjoyed the game and would recommend to anyone that isn't really picky about games.
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