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Are you serious?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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 interested

Wonderful Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It is a great game I would recommend it to everyone.

More of the same

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: July 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Take 'Conflict: Freespace', polish up the already-gorgeous graphics, and you have 'Freespace 2'. Essentially a re-run of the original, this adds new ships, new weapons, at least one outstanding graphical effect (capital ships now attack each other with 'beam weapons' - giant shafts of light that cut through ships like a hot knife through butter), and some new cut-scenes, all wrapped up in a sturdy cardboard box. At the risk of souding boring, if you liked the original, you'll like this, as it's more of the same - the controls and interface are identical, and it's just as derivative of 'X-Wing' and 'Wing Commander' as it ever was, with an emphasis on fast action and spectacular effects. It has absolutely no depth, and very little replay value (the missions are often tightly-scripted, and replaying them is often quite dull, as you know exactly what's about to happen), but it's the best combat flight simulator on the market. One tip - try and play the original first, as this game doesn't usher you into the flow of play gradually, it drops you right in the thick of things from the first mission.

Gaming at its finest

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played this game in a while, for two reasons: 1) My computer doesn't have a joystick port, so I can't use my joystick, and 2) I've been too wrapped up in World of Warcraft. One reviewer commented that he wouldn't call it the greatest game ever, and he's right. But I will say that this game, years later, is still one of my absolute favorites. I've been waiting for a space combat sim to come out that's at least half as good as Freespace 2. Unfortunately, they don't really make them much anymore, and those that I've seen don't look nearly as good.

A little complicated, but a really great game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

God I have never liked a space shooter as much as Freespace 2. The joystick is excellent when controlling your craft. You have a nice looking set of ships with good graphics to boot. At the time, pre-Doom 3, I thought they were they best graphics known to mankind.

The only problem is, to me anyway, is that the whole "realism" with controlling your space ship is a little too complicated, I mean, if you set the game down for a year and had to pick it back up, you would have to do the tutorial or memorize ALL the controls from the manual.

Anyway, it is a decent game, and if you have a lot of time on your hands, pick it up.

So good I wish they would make another one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game and have played it through a number of times over the years. Not only were the graphics really good for its time, the game play was intense, the story well constructed, music was good, ships were cool, and it had real character. Everything about it was excellent.

I also really liked the mission creator and how you could set up all the ships and events to make a whole scenario. This also allowed various mods to be created including a Babylon 5 mod by some fans after Sierra canceled the B5 fighter game they were making.

It's a shame this genre of game is dead as I would love nothing more than for someone to make a similar game but set in the new Battlestar Galactica universe. Nothing whets my appetite more than thinking of how awesome it would be to launch from BG75 and partake in the missions seen throughout the new series with all the things in the game that made FreeSpace 2 so great.

I am so longing for a game of this type to be made that I might install FreeSpace 2 again and give it a play. I'm sure it will still be good.

If by chance you do happen to come across this game for sale somewhere and are wanting a top-class space fighter experience then grab it because it is well worth it.

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