Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich

The mechanics are a bit janky and the controls aren't very intuitive. However, the colourful characters and compelling story make for a truly wonderful experience. Very reactive world with plenty of opportunity for creativity. Challenging too.

says my pc doesnt have correct full screen setting

I absolutely adore the original Freedom Force and, having replayed it before replaying this, it absolutely holds up. This, even 15 years down the line, is still a disappointing sequel. It does make some improvements. The animated heads for dialogue in cut-scenes are good (though seem less impressive now, obviously), the stream-lined heroic revival system is much fairer than the original and the improved energy system is much simpler and better, with each character having an attack or two that have no energy cost, avoiding the problem the original had where you can be stuck not able to do anything while waiting for energy to recover. Unfortunately, this doesn't really make up for the problems. Characters are more likely to auto-attack when an enemy's in range, even if you don't want them to, as this means they're quite happy to walk into traps or ranged attacks. That's a minor inconvenience. The bigger issue is the campaign, which really isn't as good as the first game's. It's much shorter and yet somehow also more repetitive (Bravissimo three times, really?). The story isn't as good, with the original's wide range of Silver Age pastiches giving way to a small, boring Golden Age story. Given the plethora of WW2 games around even in 2005, I'm not sure why Irrational decided to forego all the interesting locations the original offered to focus instead on WW2 Germany. The campaign is also way too prescriptive on who you can and can't use, forcing you to use the limited and uninterested WW2 characters for a good chunk of the game. It's really hard to get enough prestige and then enough experience from missions to recruit and make decent use of all the other characters you might want to and that's even if they don't start disappearing later in the game. It's quite possible you can spend all your focus building up a handful of characters that you then can't use for the last handful of missions.

This and it's predecessor are the best supers game available.. Buy it!

Loved the whole series fun game