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Title: Freelancer
Post by: Saurdaukar on March 04, 2003, 12:34:01 PM

Downloaded the demo a few nights ago.  Its not bad.  

No joystick support - which I was surprised by - but the game gets by fine (if not arguably better) without it.

Looks pretty, and it has substance.  If you did the Wing Commander/Privateer thing when space flight sims first blew up, you might want to check it out.  I was initially uninspired by it - but the more I played, the more I was drawn in.

The makers have devised an interesting way to get around the large distances in space - they created "highways" of sorts which allow you to travel at higher speeds along pre-arranged paths.  Im curious as to how the multiplayer aspect will pan out.

PS:  Runs perfect on my 1.3 Athlon with a 1st generation GF3 in 32 bit color.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/freelancer/

EDIT:  Wont let me post screenshots - just follow the link

Title: Freelancer
Post by: Saintaw on March 04, 2003, 01:20:24 PM

No Joystick support?
This is planned for the GOLD release, right?

Title: Freelancer
Post by: Saurdaukar on March 04, 2003, 01:44:01 PM

Theres talk of a patch that will fix this "error" on MS's part.

Title: Freelancer
Post by: Kirin on March 04, 2003, 01:56:09 PM

Actually the mouse control isnt THAT bad... works quite well. Besides it's not gonna be a new WingCommander (btw - bought the DVD version of WC IV on ebay... wooooo!).

Freelancer reminds me much of Elite (even have an Elite version on my Palm) - which isn't bad at all. It was just hyped to much the last, uhm, 4 years... :D

Standard dialogs get annyoing very quickly though.