Game Review by Johan Ljungman

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• Game Review by Johan Ljungman

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• Publisher Microsoft
• Developer Digital Anvil
• Type of Game Space RPG and Simulation
• System Requirements
• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
• 600 MHz processor
• 128 MB RAM
• 900 MB hard drive space
• 16 MB 3D graphics card
• CD Drive, Sound Card
• Price 19.99

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Quick Overview

• 4 Major Governments
• New Liberty (Based on the US)
• Bretonia (Based on the UK)
• Kusari (Based on Japan)
• Rheinland (Based on Germany)
• Outlying Areas filled with pirates with remnants
  of whats left of the Hispania

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Story Line

• You play as Edison Trent trying to restart your
  life after the attack. You get recruited by the
  New Liberty Security Force and they give you your
  first ship to get you started again. The game has
  a main story in which you try to figure out who
  attacked you and whats happening to the leaders
  of the nations. The main story is used to unlock
  new ships and ship upgrades but once the main
  story arc is completed you get full access to the
  universe.

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Scoring

• The game has two ways to measure success.
• Levels are gained by following the main story
  line
• Money is gained by doing missions and trading
  between planets and space stations.
• The two are linked in the way that some of the
  levels in the main story require you to gain a
  certain amount of personal wealth.

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Artwork

• The game itself has gorgeous space environments
  in which the player can use what he can see as
  visual aids for navigation in each system. The
  planets themselves have a set landscape that ties
  into its location in the universe.

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Sound and Music

• Freelancer using a dynamic sound where things
  that happen farther away sound like they actually
  are farther away whereas if someone crashes
  straight into you youll definitely know.
• The music is made not by just one composer but by
  many to give the game a feeling of depth. The New
  Liberty space will have a different score from
  say Kusari space.

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Manual

• The manual has 42 pages and contains a run down
  of how to install the game, HUD layout and the
  basics to flight and combat.

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Bugs

• Because the game has been out a little over three
  years most of the bugs have been fixed.

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Whats Fun

• The open ended game play lets you choose
  whichever path you want to take. After the main
  story ends you have the opportunity to go back
  into the game and make it into whatever you wish

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What is bad

• Game can get a little repetitive if doing
  missions and the long merchant hauls are not very
  entertaining unless youre into the thrill of
  escaping from space pirates in a big lug, doing a
  particularly dangerous route can be very
  frustrating

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How does it compare

• I have not played any game thats similar to this
  one. The open ended game play is very hard to
  find in games now and the space genre is no
  longer a good market for developers.

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Appropriate Audience

• Any Space Adventure fan
• Players that love a good story

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Overall Strengths and Weaknesses

• Strengths
• Open ended game play
• Great graphics in the space environments
• Great combat sound and interaction
• Mouse steering, no need for clunky joysticks
• Weaknesses
• Game play can get repetitive
• Niche market

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Worth buying?

• Definitely, it has one of the best stories of any
  game Ive played up to date with many mods to
  download to continue the experience, theres also
  multiplayer servers for pvp and guild management.

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How to improve on it

• Adding a better multiplayer system
• Adding a mod creator to the system for easy
  modding

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