Great RPG/Strategy hybrid. Freedom Force is fun even for people who aren't into comic book characters...

User Rating: 9.3 | Freedom Force PC
Freedom Force pays homage to the old school comic book heroes. You control a slew of different comic book style heroes against a bunch of evil comic book style villians. All of this is done in style. It is done like an interactive comic book with over the top characters, moves and storyline. It contains fully destructible environments and you can use almost any object in the game and all action is in real time. Graphics: The graphics are done very well. The character models are just like you would want a comic book hero and villians to look like. Very detailed and with great animations. The environments are extremely detailed and are fully destructible. The animations of buildings blowing up and special effects are done very well. The artistic design of everything in the game looks great. There are civilians walking all over the city, cars, telephone poles and everything else in the city that makes it look alive. You can zoom in and out of the action and it looks very good zoomed in. The cutscenes are also done very well and are all played out like reading from a comic book. Sound: The music and voice overs are great. The voices are over the top and very unique for each character. It sounds just like you suspect comic book characters would sound. It has a campy feel like 70's cartoons or TV shows even with the "THWACK" "BANG" etc.. that you wold see when you are in battle. All environment sounds are authetic and nothing seems out of place. The music in the game is outstanding. Gameplay: The gameplay is realtime. You control all of your characters and point them where to go and what actions to perform. You can use almost any object in the game to your advantage. For example if your character is strong enough you can pick up a car and throw it towards your enemies knocking them down and causing damage. You can destroy buildings which can crash down on your victims and you can use telephone polls and lamposts as weapons like a baseball bat. All you characters have powers that you can level up throughout the game to make them morepowerful and also get new powers. The level up system is robust and just like you would want from an RPG. While playing yu can control the time so you can pause or slow down time in order to give you enough time to issue orders to all your characters. It can get very hectic controllig 5 chracters at once so this is a welcome feature. You can also speed up time which comes in handy when there is a lull in action and you want to get to your destination faster. The story plays out very well. The city is overrun by this mysterious substance that has caused mutations to average humans which turned them into superheroes or villians. Some of the characters which will play out come from other places around the universe. The rpg elements of the game and story are done so well that even people who arent fans of comic books will enjoy Freedom Force and comic book fans will especially enjoy it. The game is long, around 30-40 hours hours, the story is great, the action is frantic and the levels are very varied. This all adds up to one of the most unique and fun RPG's that you will get to play.