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Summary: Great action game
Review: I think this is only the 2nd game in my 15 years of playing computer games that I actually finished. I love the accurate flight physics and believable story line. The game walks one right through getting proficient at flying and it is necessary to play the game. You get a whole lot better before you end the game. I would recommend this to anyone that dreams of flying in space.
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Summary: Wow..........
Review: Incredable. Simpley incredible. Independence War 2: The Edge of Chaos is definaltly a new benchmark in almost every aspect of a space sim. This game takes place a 100 years after the first game. You start of as a kid who watched his father murdered by Caleb Maas, (you will watch the scene in the beautiful opening movie [yes its at least 10 min long].) After a small tutorial in the beggining, go to Instant Action and pilot your trusty ship, the Storm Petrel for at least 10 mins without dying. After being held prisoner for 15 years you become a pirate and your grandmother's old pirate base as your base of operations. Command four powerful and futuristic crusiers against your eneimies and pirate transports for loot to refit your ships, for wealth, for anything you want. The best thing about this game is that it's FREE. You don't have to move ahead with the maibn plot into you feel like it. Veteran Independence War players will be relived becasue we were all tired of having our ships beat up just to complete a mission objective. Also, do not ever go to multiplayer until you are an experienced pilot. Otherwise, you be in for a scare as an experienced pilot will turn of inertia dampeners and use lateral thrusters to turn around, manouver around and fire at you from behind even when you were doing the pursuing. Experienced pilots will probably give you a scare by shooting you while your pursuing them. A good pilot can do all that in about 3 seconds tops...so watch your back. Also, graphics, controls, everything is beautiful and well done in this game. A definate must-buy.
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Summary: My Husband Adores This Game
Review: It's true. My macho husband gets all misty when he tries to explain to his freinds the fun that playing this game brings into his life. He says it's the best space simulation game he's ever seen. Although I'm not a big gamer, I enjoy watching him play it because the story is pretty good and the characters are very interesting. The action is fun to watch because it looks so much like a 5-star sci-fi film. It looks pretty challenging to play -- my husband says he thinks this game might not be as popular in the US as in other places because it's not as easy as a lot of American games. He's a good gamer, though, and really appreciates the challenge. He told me he thinks the game is worth much more than we paid for it at Amazon.com. It has a lot of depth to it. It's fun to watch him enjoy something so thoroughly, and it's fun to see him get satisfaction from a game over such an extended period of time.
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Summary: Edge of Chaos
Review: Its best with a joystick. I love the plot, its very deep and involving. Graphics are still hard to match even today.
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Summary: Underrated game
Review: Rarely do you find a game these days that has the two qualities that make a great game. Graphics and gameplay. Far too aften it's one or the other. These days the plot usually has to suffer because developers spend way too much time trying to visually impress the gamer.
This is not the case in I-War 2. From the main menu interface, the music, just the presentation in general upon first installing the game it's hard not to initially sit there with your mouth open in awe. Though far and few between, the cutscenes in this game are nothing less than spectacular. Don't be fooled though, the learning curve on this game is very steep. I knew this from the get go and I decided I was going to finish this game. I started playing Sep 02, I finished it in around April 03. I don't have the time to play 10 hr marathons, but everytime I did sit down, I played this.
One of the downfalls in the game is that there are a few problems with the in game scripting, in laymen's terms sometimes parts of the script won't continue if certain things are done in a right order, and it can be very frustrating, especially because there's no way to know. With a very small amount of time there are fan websites that can help guide you or show you what your doing wrong. Plus through patches about 95% of these "holes" have been fixed.
Another reason so many found the game difficult is the physics of the game, it is a sim so it uses zero gravity, meaning once you start accelerating unless you accelerate the other direction you'll keep going that direction. It makes combat very interesting and very difficult to master.
I can't recommend this game enough, the story kept me going to the end, the music and sound effects are beautiful, top notch graphics, exciting epic space battles, a true space sim in every aspect.
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Summary: Good potential but....
Review: Started off great, fantastic graphics and the ships were good fun to fly. The problem is that you never know where to go or what to do. You're supposed to go out in to the universe and find "jobs" to do but with no direction or idea as to how to go about doing it. I went from one planet to another, nothing happened but I enjoyed the view. Too bad the game cheat manual is out of print.
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Summary: Jaw dropping, awe inspiring beauty
Review: Stunning. Beautiful. Can I fall in love with a computer game? Maybe not, but if I could this would be it. Wow. Hard core gamers rejoice, the techonology and graphics available today has allowed the space sim genre to truly blast towards the heavens. I've only just begun the game, but I'm speechless. I'm leaving work early to get back to it... I never do that, after all, they're just computer games. But this is... this reminds me of the joy I had as a junior-high student playing Wing Commander I and II. The story is well done and immersive, if not stunningly original: your father is murdered by a loan shark and your left in the hands of an "electronic guardian", ala Max Headroom (sp). The guardian takes you to your (also dead) grandmother's old pirate base, hidden deep within a nebula gas cloud where you discover her old warship and... well, you begin to live the life of a pirate while questing for the revenge of your father's murder. But let's get back to what's important. This is a hardcore gamers delight. The physics are detailed and you'll have to learn to deal with inertial trajectories as you dogfight, but you can also use them to your advantage for some wicked strafing moves. Additionally, you can utilize thrusters to suddenly push your ship up/down or left/right while otherwise maintaining an idential course and heading. The weapons systems are detailed, primarily focused around energy/cannon weapons and missles. I've only begun to explore the customization options available, but it looks like you've got tremendous flexibility to modify your ship as additional resources become available to you, including propulsion, fuel cells, targetting, shields, countermeasures, active and passive sensors, etc. The combat is -very- difficult at first and you're going to get killed... a lot. Suck it up, enjoy it. Your skills will be pushed more than they've been by most of the space sims that have been cranked out in the last few years. The graphics are... well, beautiful. The in-game level of detail is incredible, accomplished through a nice balance of polygon-count and texturing. Smooth and seamless, I have yet to encounter a single stutter in the action. Similarly, the sound is fantastically well done, adding a great immersive factor to the game that truly draws you in. A subwoofer if a definite must to appreciate this game. Only problem here: you'll need the latest drivers and make sure you've installed Microsoft's codec, something you'll need for smooth voice playback. Without it, speech becomes choppy and bothersome. A joystick is also a must. They say you can use the keyboard, but don't believe it. The action can be simply brutal and if you don't have full and instant control, you're toast. A hatstick is also a highly recommended option for the joystick, as the in-flight command menu makes liberal and heavy usage of it, but also allows for a surprisingly intuitive (and ingenious) interface not only inflight but also at base and working through the game's techinical menus/screens, almost making the mouse obsolete. You quite simply must buy this game if you're into simulations and miss the challenge of the old flight/space sims. This may very well wind up a contender for GOTY--I was right about Deus Ex, maybe I'm right about this. Don't miss it! This is the first 5-star rating I've given to a game in over a year!!! Reviewed on a P3 800/Coppermine, SB Live! Value, Hercules GeForce2 GTS/Pro, and 256 Meg of Ram at PC133.
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Summary: Too many bugs
Review: This game has too many bugs. In my case I recover stolen goods, and return them to where I'm suppose to, then nothing happens after that. This is early in the game. I can't get past this point. You are just stuck there with nothing happening. Very slow game, too much wasted time going places and then you accomplish your mission and the game just stops. No support provided from game mfg. Too much time wasted for little results Much better games out there.
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