Posted on: September 12, 2019
Tricontinental
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Perfect marriage of Pirates & Freelancer
I think this game got some unfair reviews recently, so here's a different perspective. Since 2003, I'd been looking for the next Freelancer (sadly still unavailable on GOG as of Sept. 2019) and I found it with Rebel Galaxy. As the title says, it's the perfect marriage of Freelancer and Sid Meier's Pirates! Like Freelancer, you play a space drifter who takes on a job to make a quick buck and then ends up in a situation way, WAY over his/her head. Like Pirates!, you start out with a tiny ship and progress to bigger, heavier, and better armed ships--and all combat is via broadsides. You've heard that right. This isn't a dogfighting simulation like Freelancer, Freespace, or X-Wing. Your ship and all other ships bigger than a corvette move on a 2D plane, whereas small fighters and gunships can move up and down a bit but you can't pilot them. Don't worry, you get used to it quickly. And like both games, you can make money by trading, mining/treasure hunting (in junk fields!), piracy, and doing missions for various factions. There is a story to follow but you can completely ignore it if if you want and just keep earning more money so you can buy bigger ships and weapons. The best part of the game in my opinion is the space western atmosphere. This ain't no space opera--there are no shiny futuristic cities, sleek cruisers, and paragons of virtue here. All ships and space stations look like rusty, hulky 18-wheelers and pickup trucks of the future, all characters are a bit seedy (you can even bribe the space cops while you're smuggling contraband!), and danger lurks everywhere. As other reviewers mentioned, the simply excellent outlaw blues/country soundtrack adds a whole other dimension to the game. Yes, OK, the story is nothing to write home about, the aliens and characters are well done, but not mind blowing, and the missions are a bit repetitive. But hey, I think you won't mind any of that when you're blasting fools to Blues Saraceno's "Bad Man". A great indie gem!!
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