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Best space sim ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game combines the best of a spacesimwith the best of a RPG. The controls are really easy andthe diffent missions provide diffent levels of difficulty. You can customize your ship and your friends with your actions. You earn money by doing jobs of shootingthings and salvaging them. the only bad part is that the AIs are somewhat stupid.

Good Game but it has its faults

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The games is great. It alows you to do whatever you want. This game is basically a new version of HardWar buy the Software Refinery Ltd. But in this game you have a universe to explore. The only thing i don't like about it is it doesn't support joysticks.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

Who stole my joystick?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game came alone just at the right time to save the world from the disappointment of Master Of Orion 3. Actually, I'd give it 3.5 stars if I could. It's good and the storyline has a lot of depth. It is similar to Privateer 2 in both setting and storyline. The interface is managable and the game keeps the player well engaged throughout. The weapon selection is nice and the AI opponents are hard, but not impossible, to beat. All in all, its a very thoughtful game.

It still ain't no Privateer 2. The main thing missing is the joystick and force feedback that adds that "little something extra" to the kill. There's nothing like doing loops and rolling out to get on the enemy's tail and then firing your afterburners and smoking the opposition. Unfortunatly, there are no rollouts in this game. The ship selection is also pretty lame. (Where's Chris Roberts when you need him?)

Still, the game is worth a day in court if you liked Privateer. The only thing I can't understand is how Microsoft, who also sells the Force Feedback Sidewinder joystick, didn't think to include even a joystick option in this game. It would have been SOOOO much better with.

e-dog

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game and the play was good, but the story line was too quick and the relayability of it is minimal, unless you want to go around randomly shooting things

story could be better, and needs joystick compatibility

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

wonderfull.....but short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is wonderfull! The gameplay and the missions are fun...but there are only 13 MISSIONS!! :( I completed the missions in about 2 days and didn't even have the best ship (not by a long shot). The only thing that is keeping this game from a 5 star game is the fact that the game is WAY too short. They should have added more missions. When I got to the end I could not believe that that was it! Sure, I can still fly around and sell and kill stuff, but what's the point if there are no more missions?!!

Freelancer is interstellar !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Freelancer is the perfect getaway from the "standard" in online gameing. Fly and upgrade your own ship as you build friendships with NPC's as well as other players like yourself!
A breath of cosmic fresh air after playing games such as Neverwinter Nights and Everquest.

Freelancer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Reviewer: Vudine from Colorado
Visually, this game is extremely good. However, I kept experiencing game crashes, even after I followed Microsoft's advice about disabling all programs prior to playing the game. To avoid this, I finally ended up saving the game after visiting every station.

To say the least, I found the game to be very frustrating. Unlike Earth & Beyond, you cannot decide whether you want to be a Merchant, Looter, etc. even though the web site claims you can and the manual implys this is possible. No, you end up having to accept combat assignments if you want to advance, so don't bother buying a freighter at the beginning of the game even if you do want to be a merchant. You finally have to accept a combat mission that the main NPC claims is only "moderately" difficult. It's not moderately difficult, it's extremely difficult. In the second stage of this mission, there are only 2 "good guys", you and LT King, and there are probably 7 or 8 bad guys. It doesn't matter how many times you shoot a bad guy, they are very, very difficult to destroy. You can shoot for only about five seconds max before your ship shield level is destroyed, so you are constanly flying away from the combat in order to restore your shield level. In addition, this combat takes place in an debris field, so not only do you have to watch out for the bad guys, you need to watch out for the space junk. If you hit one, it can consume half your shield protection. After about 10 defeats in a row, I said the heck with it. In addition, the game doesn't offer optional levels of difficulty, it has just one: "Very, Very hard".

From now I'll stick to my existing sims.

Microsoft games have a big time problem with their games crashing, and this one is no exception. I am not saying this to be spiteful; go to the Microsoft Intenret site and see for yourself. Individually, I would rate this game a 4 for graphics and sound, 1 for reliability, and 1 for game play. The bottom line is that I made a mistake buying this game.

No joystick? You must be kidding...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 24
Date: January 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game would have easily got a 5 star rating if it supported a joystick. Mouse-based flight sims are lame-o. Much disappointment... I don't recommend it.

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