![]() ![]() Of course, Good Old Games and Steam now offer a version more readily compatible with today’s operating system (and with the v1.2 patch), so it should be less of a headache for new players to get in on the pew-pew-pew. ![]() ![]() Released in 1999 to critical acclaim and a successor to 1998’s Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War – both developed by Volition and published by Interplay, FreeSpace 2 is probably the best space sim ever made – and yes, I see your Elites and your Wing Commanders and I open a can of subjective preferences and throw it at you, HAH TAKE THAT!Īnyway, the game stands up well enough in its vanilla 1999 form even today – a testament to the meticulous attention to detail and superb software engineering that Volition put in to FreeSpace 2. No, that honour and distinction goes to the game that told me not what Yoda did or thought correct the game that wasn’t about Luke’s understanding of the Force, nor was set in a “long time ago” in an unnamed “Galaxy far-far away” – no, this game was the story of an unnamed, unisex pilot serving the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance in our very own Milky Way. Yes, Star Wars did sow the seeds of intergalactic travel and dogfights in my 5 year old brain, but it wasn’t the most influential media as far as space is concerned. ![]()
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