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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  171 reviews
Sales Rank: 3311
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows Nt, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Xp
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: a70-00021
UPC: 805529221543
EAN: 0805529221543
ASIN: B000085AHJ
Release Date: March 4, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Open-Ended Universe - Play missions randomly or follow the storyline. The universe is open for exploration, and the game evolves based on the decisions you make. Demolish pirate bases or supply depots and watch the political fallout. Lane Hackers go after cargo vessels if you disable trade lanes. Support your local cop...or not. The choice is yours but the universe won't wait for you. | | • | Dynamic Reputation - Your choice in missions, your successes, your failures...they all change your reputation constantly. Play as a Naval Officer and everyone associated with the Navy will treat you better. Become a pirate and hunt down cargo vessels and youll soon have friends in low places. The missions youre offered and the technology you have access to all depend on who you become. | | • | Distinctive Styles of Play - Chase the almighty dollar, disrupt the corrupt government, enforce the law, chase human prey...every game is different. Want access to easy money? Become a Lane Hacker: take dowenemies blind. Politics and intrigue are everywhere in the universe. If you have what it takes to be a CEO here on Earth.... | | • | Intuitive Interface - Master the intricacies of space combat via mouse. Don't have a joystick? Hate all those buttons anyway? A mouse and a keyboard puts you in the game. |
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Amazon.com Review
In the open-ended space action/adventure game Freelancer you play a ne'er-do-well with a lucky streak, one of two survivors of a space disaster. Penniless and shipless, you venture around a space dock until you find a ship and a job. You'll encounter a heady mix of canned missions that follow one main quest, and a million opportunities to make money or aggravate the various factions that co-exist in the universe. Like an online role-playing game, or Bethesda's Morrowind, you determine who your enemies are and who your friends are by your own actions, and, in another nod to role-playing, you can customize your ship with guns, rockets, and equipment just as you would customize a RPG character with swords, bows, and magic items. Best of all, you can play cooperatively with friends or fight it out with enemies online. The backstory posits a future where various countries, divided by both nationality and, seemingly, race, have boarded massive colony ships and ventured into a wormhole that appeared within reach of our crude space technology. They found themselves in a galaxy far, far away and they got stuck there when the wormhole collapsed. They quickly colonized new home worlds and named everything with familiar locales that make navigation a breeze. In the American sectors you'll feel at home entering the New York system and landing at a spaceport called Manhattan, for example. While contrived, this device is used beautifully and it's far better than having to memorize a bunch of sci-fi names and remembering where they are, perfect for a massive universe such as this one. Though Freelancer is set in space, it is technically not a space simulation. The game was designed to be accessible to casual gamers. For example, Freelancer makes you use the mouse for ship control. This is quite a shift for a game genre normally known to require joystick control. But even old-school Wing Commander or X-Wing fans may find that the sacrifice of verisimilitude is made up for with gains in agility. The mouse controls your guns, while you use the keyboard to maneuver around the rich universe that developer Digital Anvil has constructed. Much like a first-person shooter, you can dodge and weave while precisely blasting your enemies. Despite the game's age, its graphics are spectacular, as is the sound and voice acting, and in that way, fighting and trading with friends or alone, Freelancer proves worth the wait. Just keep in mind that it is explicitly not a hardcore space simulation, and you'll have to leave your joystick on the shelf. --Andrew S. Bub Pros: - A deep and interesting universe
- Game adjusts to your choices and affiliations
- Innovative and addictive co-op multiplayer
- It looks like a space sim but plays like a RPG
Cons: - Joystick isn't even an option
- It looks like a space sim but plays like a RPG
Product Description
In Freelancer, you'll have to make way in the universe, through the aftermath of interplanetary war & colonization! Explore dozens of different star systems and uncover a hidden threat to the human race Exciting LAN play for up to 16 players
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| Customer Reviews: Read 166 more reviews...
 Great Game! A Classic! June 4, 2009
Michael Sena (NY)
This now six-plus year-old game may not stand up to the massive online counterparts it has today, like EVE-Online and Jumpgate: Evolution, this space-faring adventure game is still plenty of fun! The story is captivating, as you take control of Edison Trent a man caught in a galactic series of catastrophic events that take him from trading, to bounty hunting, to performing government contracts.
The single player game has two full hours of cut scenes! It is fairly linear, though the player is free to take on many side missions that affect his galactic standing. There are no player customization options that have become the norm in games today, but that doesn't detract from the brilliant gameplay that Freelancer offers the player.
The lore of the Freelancer universe is rich, and there are many places to go in the single player game. The multiplayer game is somewhat limited, however, because it is essentially a rehashing of the single player game.
Movement in space is done by simple key presses or by pointing and clicking with your mouse. It is very simple, and is unlike other space simulation games. However, it is easy to pickup and makes getting into the game much easier!
Overall, the game is a lot of fun! It isn't much compared to huge games like EVE and Jumpgate, but those are focused on online gameplay. Freelancer truly stands out for its great single-player game. If you have the money to spend and don't want to get addicted to online games, buy this!
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A timeless classic March 20, 2009
Andrew Letson
Freelancer was released in 2003, and even 6 years down the road, it still plays as though it was released, oh, about a year ago. The controls are intuitive; the storyline, although restricting, is at least interesting; and the graphics are really pretty decent. Soundtrack is appropriate for the game - and a lot of the music is really nice. The one major aspect of the game that really let me down is the terrible voice acting. A lot of the characters sound like their voice actor was taking depressants while they were recording the voice clips. Despite this drawback, the game still plays well.
Not only was the original game solid, with many excellent gameplay premises, but Digital Anvil/Microsoft also encouraged the modding community, allowing the creation of many new things in the Freelancer universe - which, by the way, is enormous. I've been playing this game for quite a while, and I still haven't explored everything in the universe. There's a lot to see.
The most noticeable lack these days is the nonexistent central server list for online play - Microsoft took that server offline a year or two ago. Direct IP play is still possible, though - and it's really fun. Playing with friends only adds to what is already a great game.
Freelancer is one of the best games I've played, and I'd recommend it to anyone that enjoys either space sims (which it can be played as) or action RPGs (which is, I think, what it was intended to be). Definitely worth a look at.
The best space sim game available in the stores today. January 25, 2009
A. Stoilov
This game was halfway created by a small company that was forced to hand over the game to microsoft because of money issues. Microsoft quickly wrapped up what they had already made and started selling it.
The game is beautiful. It has great gameplay. It has great story line. The graphics are amazing. At last you have tons of freedom. The only negative to this game is that microsoft wrapped it up as fast as they could. They did not finish the game so the ending of it is like zzaappp.. that was it? And then you are left on your own which does get boring.
Now, the game is beautiful. Everything from the starting to almost the ending, is beautiful. The game play is very addicting. Simple instructions allow you to focus on the game play and not a strategy on how to get somewhere or how to get moving. The story line is very good. You start off as no body. You meet a LSF woman that hires you to do a job for her. Thats how the game starts. She gives you a cheap ship "on the house". You do mission for her and you get paid. Then on and on. Her missions are long and exciting missions that take you by the hand and lead you across amazingly made galaxies that include rocky nebula's, gassy nebula's, icy nebula's, radioactive nebula's, minefields, tons of planets, tons of space stations and so on. The best of all it has somewhat of a working economy. You can transport stuff between the stations and the planets to make money. You can go mining or kill pirates and so on. Once you kill other ships you get whatever weapons or anything else they have that was not destroyed during the battle. With plenty of 3rd party mods and available multiplayer, the limits of this game are endless.
Like i said the only negative to this game comes in hand when microsoft took over the project. They wrapped up the game as fast as they could and threw it out in the stores. You do this mission, you do the next mission and then all the sudden you are at the ending of it leaving plenty of unexplored galaxies that unless you play multiplayer, you might never even find. Dont get me wrong, there is plenty of gameplay for your to enjoy.
My favorite about this game is that there is NO MENU gameplay. In other words, you change your graphics, you change your sound settings, you change your keys and so forth but for anything for the game play, its all done during playing. If you want to change your ship. You have to fly out in space to some space station or a planet and buy the ship from there. Every station or planet offers different choices of ships that you can buy. To change your weapons, you have to destroy another ship or buy them from the space station or planet also and again every space station offers different weapons. To get and do missions you have to fly from location to location and again each space station has its own little missions besides the big story line. You have the freedom to fly anywhere you want, buy anything you want and destroy any one you want. Its up to you. You are playing the game, the game is not playing you.
I have played X3, darkstar one, and any other space sim game i could get my hands on and freelancer is by far my top choice.
A fun but easy to use Sci-Fi flight simulator/role playing game January 23, 2009
R. Clark (Dallas, TX USA)
Freelancer is the game to have for those who have always been interested in playing a Sci-Fi game but have never been dedicated enough to master the often complicated flight controls and gameplay scenarios associated with some of the more complex Sci-Fi games out there. In singleplayer, you follow the story of an out-of-luck first time shipper that lost his cargo in a space station explosion. In multiplayer, you do whatever you want, starting from scratch, amassing your own fortune and going whervever you want. A good deal of the fun comes from simply exploring many of the beautifully designed systems and discovering remote bases and rare weapons and equipment. I highly recommend, although it there is no longer a supported matchmaking service for multiplayer. What that means is it's more difficult to find a multiplayer server (as you cannot through the game) and that its only good through other matchmaker services such as Gamespy. The single player is still fun, though it leaves you feeling alone after an action-packed ending.
Freelancer November 16, 2008
Walter J. Danek
Awesome game. Plenty of play time after the main plot is completed. Visit a ton of planets in many systems. Try trading with a freighter if you get bored with just shooting everyone in a starfighter. The cut scenes in the bars & other interactive places get boring, but just hit 'escape' to run through them. Again,.... great game & loads of fun for the money
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