When did Freelancer come out?

Freelancer was released on 4 March 2003 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Freelancer (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Freelancer

Eight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several…

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What Freelancer is

Freelancer is an adventure game developed by Digital Anvil and released in 2003. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Freelancer is a 2003 space trading and combat simulation video game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is a chronological sequel to Digital Anvil's Starlancer, a combat flight simulator released in 2000. The game was initially announced by Chris Roberts in 1999, and following many production schedule mishaps and a buyout of Digital Anvil by Microsoft, it was eventually released in March 2003.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Freelancer holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year. Players rate it 77, 7 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Freelancer launched on 4 March 2003, within three weeks of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Final Fantasy X-2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Final Fantasy X-2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield.

Cheats and codes

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