Rawks
Gamer Extraordinaire
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Well considering this is a Sci-Fi forum, I thought I would ask you guys about this gem.
Known by two different names, depending which part of the world you come from, either Decent: FreeSpace - The Great War, or Conflict: FreeSpace - The Great War (can hardly tell they are the same game, can you?).
When my family purchased our original PC (A beastly 450 MHz Pentium 2 with 64mb! of RAM, 10 gig hard drive space (which we were told that we were crazy, we could never use all that space!) and an intense 4mb of RAM nVidia Riva 128 graphics card), this game came with it. I think mainly because I believe FreeSpace was one of the first games to come released on a DVD, and my computer had a DVD-ROM (in 1998).
Rather than fully explain it here, I'll provide the Wikipedia link, as I skimmed through it, and it does do the game justice in its explanation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent:_FreeSpace_–_The_Great_War
My opinion of the game, it was just simply amazing. It had a great story, awesome gameplay, great graphics and fantastic AI, for a game released in 1998. Flying a little starfigher alongside massive capital ships, escorting said capital ships through asteroid fields, those nerve wracking moments when it looks like all hope is lost as you and your last remaining wingman wait for the Terran starfleet to warp in just in the nick of time.. Writing about all this makes me so want to play it again, although I'm not sure how it would go on modern processors
There was a second game released, FreeSpace 2, which continued the story from the first game, however, the game ends quite abruptly after a lengthy campaign, and to this day (the sequel launched in 1999) there has been no official explanation as to what happened at the end of FreeSpace 2, as it was like one of those end of season cliffhangers, only for the show to get cancelled.
The second game was released for free to be downloaded over the internet, along with its source code, however, being at work, there's only so far I will travel on the internet, maybe at home I'll have a better look, as I couldn't find the download links
So, wondering if anyone else here has played this, and if you haven't, why haven't you?
Known by two different names, depending which part of the world you come from, either Decent: FreeSpace - The Great War, or Conflict: FreeSpace - The Great War (can hardly tell they are the same game, can you?).
When my family purchased our original PC (A beastly 450 MHz Pentium 2 with 64mb! of RAM, 10 gig hard drive space (which we were told that we were crazy, we could never use all that space!) and an intense 4mb of RAM nVidia Riva 128 graphics card), this game came with it. I think mainly because I believe FreeSpace was one of the first games to come released on a DVD, and my computer had a DVD-ROM (in 1998).
Rather than fully explain it here, I'll provide the Wikipedia link, as I skimmed through it, and it does do the game justice in its explanation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent:_FreeSpace_–_The_Great_War
My opinion of the game, it was just simply amazing. It had a great story, awesome gameplay, great graphics and fantastic AI, for a game released in 1998. Flying a little starfigher alongside massive capital ships, escorting said capital ships through asteroid fields, those nerve wracking moments when it looks like all hope is lost as you and your last remaining wingman wait for the Terran starfleet to warp in just in the nick of time.. Writing about all this makes me so want to play it again, although I'm not sure how it would go on modern processors
There was a second game released, FreeSpace 2, which continued the story from the first game, however, the game ends quite abruptly after a lengthy campaign, and to this day (the sequel launched in 1999) there has been no official explanation as to what happened at the end of FreeSpace 2, as it was like one of those end of season cliffhangers, only for the show to get cancelled.
The second game was released for free to be downloaded over the internet, along with its source code, however, being at work, there's only so far I will travel on the internet, maybe at home I'll have a better look, as I couldn't find the download links
So, wondering if anyone else here has played this, and if you haven't, why haven't you?
I still play it from time to time because It had a wonderful storyline. I remember by the I was done, I liked it soo much, I went back and played it a second time.
I rarely do that with games too.
I had no idea!!:Y