Freelancer

[frogbeastegg]

Privateer was just Wing Commander meets Elite, hardly spectacular but enjoyable enough despite it's age. The good thing is the last time I looked (a few years back mind) there are at least 2 remakes around.

Just?! Just?! :spits blood: Privateer 2 is one of my most fondly remembered games from my DOS gaming days! Gah! I played through it so many times! It was also the first game I brought a strategy guide for, so I could plan the best trading routes and revel in pages of ship and upgrade stats.

Remakes?



I played freelancer, and starlancer before it. Also wing commander, and the original X: beyond the frontier, and many others. I used to be quite the space pilot. It's been years, many years. The genre slowly died out, the games which did appear didn't appeal, and old staple franchises like wing commander went awful or vanished like the x-wing/TIE fighter games. I haven't had a joystick connected to my PC since before I installed windows 98.

Freelancer was a nice game, but overall didn't leave much of an impression on me. I recall more about starlancer. The main memory I had was of some unnerving areas which had low visibility and lots of floating rocks/debris for you to navigate through. The mouse controls worked decently, although IIRC they were a bit of a struggle in heated fights.

Be warned though, it has a fairly complex learning curve and probably will require a joystick to fly combat missions properly.

How feasible is it to play the game with mouse and keyboard? The original X was very laid back, there wasn't much fighting unless you went searching for trouble.