Freedom: First Resistance Preview

Angel Sanchez was leading an ordinary life. Like many people, she grew up in the suburbs, went to school, received her degree in communications, and was even set to marry her college sweetheart and start a career at a consulting firm. Angel had her entire life ahead of her, but there was no way she could have prepared herself for what was about to occur. Earth was on the brink of invasion by an alien race known as the Catteni, and Angel's world would soon shatter.

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When the Catteni arrived on Earth they immediately employed their traditional strategy of rounding up the native population by force and placing them in refugee camps where their fate would be decided. One day, while Angel was walking home from work, Catteni ground troops reached the city and began to pluck humans from the streets and throw them into abandoned buildings that had been converted into camps. Angel's family was abducted, and her college sweetheart was shot while resisting the Catteni forces. Confronted with the chaos occurring around her, Angel attempted to hide from the Catteni forces, but her attempts prove to be futile, and she was quickly abducted and imprisoned in one of the makeshift refugee camps.

Life in the camps was rough, but if anything, it served as motivation for Angel. She could've given up on herself and her family if she had wanted to. Others in the refugee camps betrayed their fellow human beings by aiding the Catteni in exchange for better treatment in the camps, but Angel resisted and managed to build a foundation of hope around something she overheard while in the camps: talk of a hidden rebellious force. Angel immediately recognized that she had to join this group of rebels. She only needed to escape and find those who were the source of her hope.

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Such is the storyline of Red Storm's Freedom: First Resistance, an action-adventure game based on Anne McCaffrey's Freedom trilogy. While McCaffrey's three books - Freedom's Landing, Freedom's Choice, and Freedom's Challenge - all take place on the Catteni-enslaved planet of Botany, the game is set entirely on planet Earth. In the context of the Freedom trilogy, it appears that Freedom: First Resistance takes place after the third novel, since the game does not focus on the experiences of Kris and Zainal. But fans of the series will likely notice similarities between characters in the trilogy and those in First Resistance. Angel Sanchez is the focal point of the Freedom: First Resistance story, and she serves as the leader for her small resistance group. As the back story for Freedom: First Resistance indicates, Angel has no real experience in a leadership role, especially for the situation she has been thrown into. However, she does have natural leadership abilities that have aided her in getting others to join her group.