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Descent: Freespace Battle Pack

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4.7/5

( 122 Reviews )

4.7

122 Reviews

English
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Descent: Freespace Battle Pack
Description
The heartless Shivans emerged through subspace near Earth, harboring technology light years ahead of anything seen before. They made no attempt to communicate. They did not respond to your heralds. They simply attacked and destroyed everything in their path. As a pilot for the Galactic Terran Allia...
Genre:
Simulation - Combat - Sci-fi
Tags:
Sci-fi, Classic, Simulation, Science, Space, show 2 more... Combat, Flight
User reviews

4.7/5

( 122 Reviews )

4.7

122 Reviews

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Product details
1998, Volition, ESRB Rating: Everyone...
System requirements
Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8, 1.4 GHz or faster, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX...
Time to beat
12.5 hMain
17 h Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
14 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description
The heartless Shivans emerged through subspace near Earth, harboring technology light years ahead of anything seen before. They made no attempt to communicate. They did not respond to your heralds. They simply attacked and destroyed everything in their path.

As a pilot for the Galactic Terran Alliance (GTA) you are no stranger to war. But when racing through space to engage your new enemy for the first time, you sense something different. Suddenly, darkness blankets your craft. Your stomach sinks as your eyes pan across the Shivan flagship's massive body. Then it begins. Swarms of fighters pour from the belly of the flagship and scream towards you. You are about to discover everything you thought you knew about space combat just changed.

This is the beginning of The Great War.
  • Includes the original Freespace and the Silent Threat mission pack
  • Multiple beautiful space fighters and bombers with customizable loadouts
  • A gripping story full of epic space battles and plot twists

Descent Freespace ©1998 Interplay Entertainment Corp. All rights reserved

Goodies
HD wallpaper manual (74 pages) reference card
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Recommended system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
12.5 hMain
17 h Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
14 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Simulation - Combat - Sci-fi
Tags:
Sci-fi, Classic, Simulation, Science, Space, show 2 more... Combat, Flight
Works on:
Windows (7, 8)
Release date:
{{'1998-03-12T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Volition / Interplay
Size:
815 MB
Links:
Forum discussion
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Everyone
Game features
Multi-player
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
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Posted on: September 29, 2023

mitchdz

Verified owner

Games: 456 Reviews: 5

Freezes Win11 all compatibility settings

This game freezes my Win 11 (just after it resizes and everything looks huge). After six ctrl-alt-del restarts, and five different compatibility tries (from Win 95 to Win 8) I'm giving up. Pity, but I'm quite happy with Tachyon right now, which worked right outta the box, so cbb with this game. Maybe one day I'll read this game's forums, there's a lot of mods etc. for the FS games, FS2 in particular. 2 stars (should be 1 star really) for the possiblity that fans can make this work, looks good in the pics.

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Posted on: September 1, 2024

SunnyOusley

Verified owner

Games: 6 Reviews: 2

Decent FreeSpace The Great War . Origin

I got it in an 1995 IBM computer pack or bunbble. liked it then like it now, whish you would release MechWarrior 4 -Mercenaries, Black Knight - Expansion Pack !

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Posted on: August 20, 2025

Rudasansev

Verified owner

Games: 27 Reviews: 3

Exelent...

The old times come back to my mind.

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Posted on: September 6, 2025

edwardlewsey

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Games: 11 Reviews: 2

A great game, one of the best

A fantastic story is driven by interesting missions and drip-fed terror at the approach chaos about to be unleashed. Really brilliant.

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Posted on: September 15, 2025

rsiason27_4831

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Games: 4 Reviews: 2

works like a dream

a well deserved port due to the fact some don't even work

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