Posted on: December 27, 2015
quixotecoyote
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A great game building on the classics.
I just finished the main plotline with about 38 hours put into the game total. One of my favorite in the genre. You can see elements that got pulled in from older games. Apart from combat, which you have to accept will be fun but not particularly 'space-simmy'. You've got the Freelancer bits where you progress through the different systems. As you go the system tech levels get higher, the enemies get more dangerous, and the loot/shopping gets better. Everything else screams Privateer. The Mercenary & Merchants Guild are Privateer right down to the Guild Office menu you use to join and then just sits there for the rest of the game. The mission types, the cockpit banter, the cargo-drop demands, etc. Overall, it's an enjoyable power grind. The play-cycle goes: Take some missions, blow-stuff up, upgrade the ship, repeat. But the options for upgrading make it seem worthwhile. From shields that let you go from running away from big enemy to parking yourself next to them and firing away, to flak cannons that sweep enemy fighters off the map, to bigger ships with more guns making a much bigger and badder impression. You can do a few loadouts. I found a few that worked well enough to beat everything close to my tech level. I played a fast cargo hauler that avoided combat to start building up money, spent mid-game in a slow cruiser with plenty of firepower that went toe-to-toe with everything, and then did the end-game in the biggest dreadnought sitting at range firing artillery and missiles with flak brushing off fighters that got in close. The only weak points are the story and the soundtrack. The story is bare-bones. None of the characters have any motivation or depth. The world has almost no lore. What story there is you've seen before in Privateer/Darkstar One/Freelancer, only with less depth. It's mostly a guide to tell you when it's time to move onto the next system. The sound is good but repetitive. I think there's 3 songs with vocals and 2 instrumentals.
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