The last of the great space-combat-fighter games

User Rating: 9.5 | Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos PC
By btindall | Review Date:
I was a big fan of the space-combat-fighter games, among them the X-Wing/Tie Fighter series, Wing Commander series, and Freespace 2. This game came out when the genre had already fallen out of favor. However, it's one of the best. It has a superb story. The controls are great. You also get the freedom to fly around and do stuff on your own freely, mainly raiding convoys for profit. I loved the music. I liked Independence War 1 quite a bit until I just got a bit frustrated because it was too hard. But this game corrected the problems with IW and took it to new levels.

You need a joystick to play this game, and I wouldn't want to play without one. Games of this type are just not the same with a mouse or gamepad. My Microsoft Sidewinder was great, and there are others. If you don't have a joystick, well I'd suggest you either get one or stay away from this game. If anyone gave this game a negative review, my guess is they tried playing it without a joystick.

I think the joystick issue is one reason why this genre lost popularity. For some reason, game publishers decided that gamers didn't have joysticks any more, so they stopped publishing games which utilized joysticks. After all, you can't port joystick games to consoles--the two don't mix. That's a shame because I miss games of this type. I wish they would let PC games be PC games and stop insisting that things work cross-platform just because it's an action-oriented game.

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