Freelancer - opinions

I didn't like it but my friend loved it. It has a lot of cool stuff, but it has a lot of flaws too. I think it depends on if you can withstand the really bad beginning to get to the cool parts.

Only tried it quickly a couple of times...so based on that I can say it is not a hardcore "simulator" type of space sim. The first thing you'll notice is that the stearing of the ship is typical WASD + mouse, not a joystick.
Graphics if I remember correctly were pretty ok, nothing amazing. Could be a great game, sertainly not a bad one at least. If space sims are you cup of tea, I'd recommend I-War 2. That is as hardcore it gets concerning physics etc

//Kee

What really annoyed me with freelancer was that the computer-generated missions, that are supposedly the bulk of the gameplay, and are where the game's title comes from, were ALL the same. It was always "go to waypoint A, kill hostiles, *optional* tractor an escape pod in". No convoy escort mission, no patrol mission on a trade lane, no "bring this very rare goods to this remote station in pirate-controlled space" type of mission,nothing , always the same search&destroy mission (and i mean it when i say 'the same', it's not a way of speaking). It especially showed when, after some plot twist, you completely change sides, yet you get the very same missions.

Similarly, being loyal to the same employer meant nothing, every guy had the same set of missions to offer, nothing like friendship/partnership building. To ad to this "it's always the same old thing", no matter where you docked, the offered missions were always the same, whereas one would excpect a trade outpost to offer slightly different missions than a military battleship.

The controls thing was a letdown too. It basically destroyed any finesse in the way to fly. It also made all ships the exact same, you had no feeling of changing when switching from one ship to another.

Last part : without spoiling anything, don't excpect to be surprised by the story, on the other hand, be prepared to smile and think "wow, they dared including that cliché again" many, many times

I reckon it's a fun game to play casually. But if you excpect it to last more than a couple weeks and still have something to offer (as they claim it), you'll be hugely disappointed.

i only played the demo but didnt enjoy it much. i will also recomend Independance War 2 it has some similer features..as in u can go anywhere and do anything and the ai does stuf on the fly..wageing wars against the police or a business without any scripted events it is really fun to get caught in the middle of a fire fight that has nothing to do with u , u can also steal cargo and trade it or recycle it to make things u have blueprints for a really good game

Freelancer is quite fun for a few hours, then it just gets repetitive. The controls, although a nice idea, are way too easy and quite limiting. Not worth buying IMO. Isn't it fairly old anyway? '01 or thereabouts?

no, its new..the old one was uhhh....starlancer i think freelancer came out this year

The game is great but I was always wishing for a bigger simulation of the economy part, i.e. building an own trade empire and helping the star systems develop.

MAde by microsoft eh? Blegh. Might i suggest Hitman 2....wait you dont like that one..

freelancer had potential to be the best game ever made


if only they had more time, to work out the problems:

storyline too short...when they discovered the alien threat, that was 75% through the storyline....instead it should have been the beginning of the REAL story....granted the game would then be 60 hours long but whatever

repetitive missions

lack of options at bases

still a very fun game however, I liked following junkers to their hidden base and flying around in pirate ships..and nothing feels like finding one of those red X's and getting uber stuff