Freespace 2
The year is 2367, thirty two years after the Great War. Or at least what YOU thought was the Great War. The seemingly endless tide of Shivan capital ships, bombers and fighters with super advanced technology…
Freespace 2 is a simulator developed by Volition, released 30 September 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Freespace 2 is
Freespace 2 is a simulator game developed by Volition and released in 1999. It was published by Interplay Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
FreeSpace 2 is a 1999 space combat simulation video game developed by Volition as the sequel to Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War. It was completed ahead of schedule in less than a year, and released to very positive reviews, but the game became a commercial failure, and was described by certain critics as one of 1999's most unfairly overlooked titles.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Freespace 2 holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1Ghz, 254 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible Video Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Freespace 2 launched on 30 September 1999, within three weeks of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Homeworld and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Homeworld, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Freespace 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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