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Freespace 2

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Freespace 2

Sep 30, 1999

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4.15 average rating based on 60 ratings

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The year is 2367, thirty two years after the Great War. Or at least what YOU thought was the Great War. The seemingly endless tide of Shivan capital ships, bombers and fighters with super advanced technology was nearly overwhelming.As the Terran and Vasudan races finish rebuilding their decimated societies, a disturbance lurks in the not-so-far reaches of the Gamma Draconis system. Your nemesis has arrived... and they are wondering what happened to their scouting party...The game continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the … More
The year is 2367, thirty two years after the Great War. Or at least what YOU thought was the Great War. The seemingly endless tide of Shivan capital ships, bombers and fighters with super advanced technology was nearly overwhelming.As the Terran and Vasudan races finish rebuilding their decimated societies, a disturbance lurks in the not-so-far reaches of the Gamma Draconis system. Your nemesis has arrived... and they are wondering what happened to their scouting party...The game continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the Shivans. While defending the human race and its alien Vasudan allies, the player also gets involved in putting down a rebellion of those elements of Vasudan (Hammer of Light) and Human (Neo Terran Front) forces which don't want to cooperate with one another. Less
Release Dates
Sep 30, 1999 Full Release (North_America)
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 08, 1999 Full Release (Europe)
PC (Microsoft Windows)
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anarchistica
anarchistica gave Feb 17, 2022
anarchistica gave Feb 17, 2022
A cute little relic

Playtime: About an hour? (tutorials + first mission and Babylon 5 tutorials)

Intro

FS2 is a space combat game. You play through various missions in a linear campaign which involve protecting allies and/or fighting enemies. There are also dozens of mods that add new content, from new missions to total conversions.

I used Knossos to install mods. Vanilla FS2 worked too but looks worse, obviously.

Review

As a kid i used to play Fury³, Terminal Velocity, X Wing/TIE Fighter, Rebel Assault II and the like. FS2 is a similar straight-forward flight combat game. There's no open world, no trading, no wide variety in ships and weapons, no factions - just simple missions. It's alright for what it is, and it's definitely cool to install the Babylon 5 mod and pilot an actual Star Fury, but i miss the freedom and options of X3TC or even Rebel Galaxy.

anarchistica
anarchistica updated their status Sep 25, 2019
anarchistica updated their status Sep 25, 2019

Freespace 2 is available for free for a limited time from the GOG home page:

https://www.gog.com/