Freespace - the Great War

Star Wars somewhere else:
Freespace started out in a strange way being called Descent: Freespace, because some people thought that it was related to Descent. The only connection I could find is that it’s made by a company that is an offspring from Parallax, called Volition. The other half of Parallax are doing the Descent one people, Descent 3 will be among us soon. But this is Freespace, a space game meant to take on the mighty X-wing/Tie-fighter games and the dodgy yet still popular Wing Commander. The story line is the same as Wing Commander Prophacy, almost exactly the same so I won’t bother telling you about it. One of the things they are most proud of though is the sheer sense of scale your supposed to feel from the Sheer scale of the thing. Does it work though?

Like Leia in the Golden Bikini:

One of the things that this game isn’t is ugly, the textures are brilliant, the explosions are awesome, by far the best i’ve seen, the engine burn effect is nice, the ships are detailed enough too, although some are uglier then hell.

Generally the game is beutiful with lots of the modern graphic splendours we expect. However the graphic style isn’t flawless, the big ships can get confusing and are rather plain, and it all seems a bit too dark. At least they got the colour of space right unlike some games. It moves along nicely too with no obvious lag and the last level has one of the most confusing but nice effects yet seen in a game. Oh and finally someone got glare into a space game with a bright white screen developing the closer you turn to the sun. Although I did notice a slight absence of planets, strange when you consider that the whole thing goes on in a solar system.

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