Or does it? The Elite of Space Trading and Combat Games Space combat is enthralling and invigorating, with a range of options for engagement with enemy vessels.Īs Freelancer progresses, better ships become available and better-equipped to deal with pirates and aggressors, all thanks to the credits earned doing jobs for various parties - as a freelancer, it really doesn’t matter who. A quick hop into space to defend a food transport outlines the method of interstellar travel (via a series of warp gates) introduces the pirates. This is where Freelancer excels with a superb, intuitive point and click mouse interface that doesn’t require any keyboard input. Once the slow start is out of the way (sadly the cutscenes can’t be skipped) and some backstory about local politics featuring border quarrels, profit concerns, and nationstate corporations has been filed for use later on, the space combat finally begins. Freelancer in ActionĪfter his home is destroyed by the criminal outfit The Order, Trent needs a job, and it isn’t long before he is getting a drink in a low key, relaxed start to the game.
Freelancer eventually introduces the player to Trent, the survivor of a terrorist attack and the player character.
This history – relevant to the game’s plot – opens with a well-realised machinima interpretation which recounts the foundation of the galactic society in the game (based on successful eras of the USA, Germany, Japan, Britain, with the Spanish becoming pirates).
The backstory is ornate, with nods (both in the narrative and the spaceship design) to sci fi greats such as the original BattleStar Galactica, Aliens, Star Wars and Space: 1999.įreelancer is set 800 years beyond the 23rd century where a society has developed in the Sirius system after vast sleeper ships were dispatched to avoid defeat in a 100 year war between Earth factions the Alliance and the Coalition. Capturing the magic of classic space trading game Elite, Freelancer brings an entire universe of money, trade and combat to the comfort of the desktop PC.
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