Freedom Force

I really love this game and I use to own it, but disappointed it still doesn't work :(

A funny story, interactive scenario and a great character editor it's all ruined by the clunky camera controls and the terrible unresponsiveness of the characters you play.

The game is funny, intentionally cheesy in every way, but the game itself is no fun. Winning or loosing a battle often seems to depend on luck instead of tactical skills. The engine of Freedom Force Vs. The Third Reich is better in every way, Pros: + different costumizable characters with different backrounds Cons: - bad camera - imprecise controls - slow movement and reaction time of the heroes

Worse tutorial ever. I tried it twice, and died twice. Uninstalled and would have gotten my money back but I waited too long to try it out. It looked like it would be fun from the advertisement. Luckily, it didn't cost much so not too much money wasted.

The corny Silver Age sensibilities of the game and its Kirbyesque art style might make this a hard sell. But the game leaves a lot to be desired in other ways, and after a short time can become very frustrating. It's definitely not the experience of being a superhero, something that several games have successfully captured. This game is not one of them. The tutorial unfortunately doesn't tell you everything you need to survive. A throwaway scene tells you to bash open rocks to find health powerups as if those powerups aren't essential. They are. You don't recover health without them, and despite being a superhero, you take A LOT of damage in every encounter. You are ALWAYS outnumbered, and far, far from invulnerable. The starting character has a force field that lasts seconds before STUNNING THE CHARACTER AND LEAVING IT TOTALLY DEFENCELESS. Without the powerups, you will die. Repeatedly. However, if you go around bashing rocks or anything in a real mission, you quickly incur a collateral damage penalty which retards your character's development. What to gimp yourself in a future mission? Go smashing stuff right now. Also, missions frequently have conflicting objectives. ALL objectives must be completed without dying, or you're penalized again. The first mission chain (you're solo, the team thing doesn't even come into play until some later stage of the game that I never reached) requires that you "Don't alert the guards" but also "Defeat all the guards." There is no way to defeat the guards without alerting them, there being no stealth combat skills. This might have been fun, but there's just too much of this conflicting nonsense arrayed against you. Maybe the sequel is better, but I'm not likely to try it.