A true classic, FreeSpace 2 bred several open-source modifications, but the even the original, unmodded game is still fun to play if you don’t mind the dated graphics. Even great game franchises fall ...

Game genres can wax and wane in popularity. It's a sad truth that two of my favorites, real-time strategy and space simulation games, have been on the decline since the glory days of Tie Fighter and ...

Welcome to the first edition of an entirely new article series simply titled Forgotten Gems. As the name implies, this series will focus on genuinely great games that for one reason or another have ...

Just saw this myself, and I thought a few people might be interested in giving it a whirl. Freespace 2 is a space action simulation type game (description sounds suspiciously close to the old Escape ...

So having opted to go with Freespace 2 for my next LAN outage as the surprise game of the weekend, I went and found it in a bargain bin at a local EB (for $9.99 no less, but it was just the jewel case ...

Freespace 2 continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the Shivans. The year is 2367, thirty two ...

Freespace 2 is in a nutshell, a Freespace 1 with all its faults fixed. If you don’t like flight sims, you wont like Freespace. But, if you’ve ever enjoyed X-wing, Ace Combat, Wing Commander, or ...

I have played many space simulators before but this game takes the cake and eats it right in front of their faces. Freespace 2 (FS2), even after these many years, still plays as good as it looks. In ...

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