Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Freelancer Hands-On Preview -- 1:35 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

PC.IGN got 10 hours to play a build of Freelancer, Microsoft and Digital Anvil's much-delayed space sim. Here is their preview. The more I hear about this game, the more it sounds like a big, shiny version of Elite. If that's true, it would definitely be A Good Thing. Thanks Blue's News.

J.t.Qbe comments: Hmmm, interesting preview. I'll say up front that it sounds like it's going to be an interesting game. However, it also sounds like they're pushing it in the direction of some of the recent Elite wannabes. Two words: "missions" (Elite allegedly had a few, but I never saw one) and "story" (Elite's story ended when you closed the manual). Elite never ended (till we quit playing); Freelancer will, though you can continue playing after finishing the story.

I wonder if Freelancer will end up being more Privateer 2 than Elite. If it's done well, will anyone care? I won't: I'll gladly play it either way.

News for 01/08/2003

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