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Description

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.

Alternate Titles

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

Part of the Following Groups


Merchant Title Platform Price  
Amazon
Freespace Windows $4.25  
GOG
Freespace + Expansion $5.99  
ebay.com
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. diglot.net Bronze Star Contributing Member (27) 4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars
Watch out, Wing Commander! Kasey Chang (3673) unrated
Screw star wars Sam Tinianow (100) unrated
An excellent and complex space sim. Gene Davison (741) unrated
Fast and addictive; a great space shooter. faceless (397) 4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars
A mediocre game at best. Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4429) 1.8 Stars1.8 Stars1.8 Stars1.8 Stars1.8 Stars

The Press Says

Gamezilla Jul 09, 1998 92 out of 100 92
Svenska PC Gamer Aug, 1998 92 out of 100 92
Electric Games 1998 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
PC Zone Aug, 1998 89 out of 100 89
PC Gameplay (Benelux) Jul, 1998 89 out of 100 89
Gaming Entertainment Monthly Jun 15, 1998 88 out of 100 88
Power Unlimited Sep, 1998 8.8 out of 10 88
Gamesmania 1998 85 out of 100 85
Absolute Games (AG.ru) Jun 13, 1998 80 out of 100 80
Computer Gaming World (CGW) Oct, 1998 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80

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Trivia

As previously mentioned, 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.


This entry was contributed by Martin Smith (63357) and faceless (397)
 

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