Underrated Game : Freelancer with video

I've always felt that Freelancer was an underrated game, because to me it's one of the best action based games, and is one of the only games that reminds me of super metroid's exploration.

Here's a video I made introducting / providing the strategy you need:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVtCfrL3Z48

Freelancer is one of my favourite games of all time, but I never ever got around to understanding the right weapons to use against different enemies. I always go for what deals the most damage, and it works good enough. As the video said missles cost money and I find them to be quite useless, however some mods make missle play extremely fun. They shoot off really fast, arc like real missles, and are quite accurate. When you get into a big firefight and you have 20 misslies flying everywhere it's much more impressive than the vanilla gun battles.

Anyway, nice video. Suited towards pre-game players, rather than people who have already started, since most of that stuff is explained within the first mission.

I didn't think Freelancer was underrated. It's just old and its time has passed. M$ closed down the servers too.

Great game though. Too bad I didn't get to play it when there were a lot of people on.

Never played online...didn't even know there was online, actually. But I really thoroughly enjoy this game, lots of fun.

Never played online...didn't even know there was online, actually. But I really thoroughly enjoy this game, lots of fun.

Erik729

I felt the game had great potential, it just needed some more mechanics in terms of gameplay. The online is pretty weak, don't even know why it's in the game.

If they made this style of game in to an MMORPG, I think this kind of thing would be more popular that e.v.e ( captain of slow space games ). But comparing action to mmorpg is tough, i just hope to see more action MMORPGs one day.

I felt the game had great potential, it just needed some more mechanics in terms of gameplay. The online is pretty weak, don't even know why it's in the game.

If they made this style of game in to an MMORPG, I think this kind of thing would be more popular that e.v.e ( captain of slow space games ). But comparing action to mmorpg is tough, i just hope to see more action MMORPGs one day.

Swizzer-J

So, in short, it had the right amount of "RPG" and adventure elements without going overboard, but it could have also expanded in some other areas. Oh well, a great game never the less.

Yeah Freelancer was a good game - deserved a sequel or a prequel

Yeah Freelancer was a good game - deserved a sequel or a prequel

Fandangle

I'd have loved a game set duing the Rhienland-GMG war. :D

Very good game, too bad it wasn't as big of a hit as it should have been.