Independence War™ II: Edge of Chaos

So glad to see this game available on GOG. This was a great game, some really tough missions. I still have my original disks, couldn't get it to run properly on my new machine and really, really wanted to finish it. Now I can. Thanks, GOG!

I-War 2 promises a nice story and immersive atmosphere. Unfortunately it is horribly broken by design. By this I mean absurd difficulty which prevents the game and story from actualizing. I am a veteran of Freespace and similar space sims but still found I-War 2 a tough nut to crack. After about 50 tries and several hours I've yet to complete the first mission to actually involve combat. Unfortunately it is the first mission after some training. Independence War 2 managed to lose all of its potential by unloading a shotgun to its own legs. It is a bitter pill to swallow as the story and depth seemed to promise so much. If only I could enable god mode I might be tempted to see the story through.

Wish there was a sequel.

... unfortunatly the installation is not working (without some real self-initative). Others already wrote about it, so no need to repeat it. Otherwise I love this game, but now for very obvious reasons i'm unfortunatly not in the mood to spread the fire.

Well, this is my favourite genre, space shooter, the story was perfect, being a pirate was alot of fun, but the only downside to this game was the newtonian physics, i know its more realistic that way, but its a game, its meant to be fun and the realism took the fun out of it. It would have got 5 stars if it had an option to turn off the realism physics.