As a pilot in the Gallactic Terran Alliance (GTA), you've known the Vasudans as the enemy for a long time. But things are about to change. An unknown menace, with technology beyond both ours and Vasudans, are destroying both sides. And now, old enemies must unite to fight this common enemy, and the dissenters and traitors on both sides.

Descent: Freespace is a space dogfight simulator. The game features a vast amount of weapons, missiles and bombs, as well as large capships. It also has online multiplayer. Take fighters and bombers on attack, recon, escort, and sweep missions against enemy capships and fighters and bombers. Defend your own capships and other assets. Your rating and performance is noted after every mission, with suggestions (if applicable). You can call in reinforcements (if available), and your wingmen actually do fight intelligently, as there can be dozens of fighters flying about.

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Alternate Titles

"Conflict: Freespace: Wielka Wojna" -- Polish title
"Conflict: Freespace - The Great War" -- European title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Freespace	Windows	$4.25
	Freespace + Expansion		$5.99
	Descent: Freespace - The Great War
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User Reviews

The fresh and arguably better alternative to the Wing Commanders and the X-Wings.	Windows	diglot.net (28)
Watch out, Wing Commander!	Windows	Kasey Chang (3664)
Screw star wars	Windows	Sam Tinianow (98)
An excellent and complex space sim.	Windows	Gene Davison (734)
Fast and addictive; a great space shooter.	Windows	faceless (395)
A mediocre game at best.	Windows	Tomer Gabel (4418)

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The Press Says

Game Revolution	Windows	May 06, 2004	A-	91
Electric Games	Windows	1998		90
Game Over Online	Windows	Jun 07, 1998	90 out of 100	90
PC Action	Windows	Jun 17, 1998	90 out of 100	90
Gaming Entertainment Monthly	Windows	Jun 15, 1998	88 out of 100	88
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Jul 01, 1998	86 out of 100	86
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 1998	85 out of 100	85
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Windows	Oct, 1998		80
PC Player (Denmark)	Windows	1998	8 out of 10	80
GameGenie	Windows	1998		80

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Trivia

DVD version

The multi-lingual DVD edition of Freespace was bundled with Creative DVD drives. Not only subtitles, but all the videos and speech were translated to other languages.

References

The section in the Freespace manual explaining how to create pilots and manage the pilot roster has a sample screenshot featuring several pilot names. One of those names is "BlueHair". This is a reference to the Wing Commander series, one of Freespace's inspirations and also one of its rivals. BlueHair was the semi-official nickname of the player character in the first two Wing Commander games.

Title

Freespace was renamed to Descent: Freespace to avoid "same name" issues with a disk utility. However, in Europe, the Descent series had never sold perticularly well, so the publishers decided to rename the game to Conflict: Freespace in that region, thereby avoiding the Descent association. Subsequent Freespace titles don't use either of the prefixes.