An all time classic. Beautiful pixel art that I feel still holds up today, and a look atnd feel that is a cross between Bladerunner and Deus Ex and Max Headroom. This is more of a stratagy game than action, controling your team of cyborgs through the various city scapes to pillage, destory, or 'persuade' various agents and targets you come across. This is what great games in the 90s looked liked... before the dark times.. before EA....
I loved this game, which is why I was going to buy it again from GOG. (I own a physical copy for PC.) Good luck trying to install this sucker. It is a frustrating buggy mess that constantly crashes with DirectX issues.
If you are a fan of the first game and wanted more of the same fun action, this is NOT the game for you. This game is bad. This game is so very bad. This game will throw wave after wave after wave of enemy combatants at you, and if they are in the same area as you, you HAVE to fight them, you simply can't just run away like in previous game. And more and more will constantly warp in, blocking your exit and making you take out even more and more baddies. This gets especially annoying when you are doing any sort of side mission which involves ESCORTING, because the enemy ships will make a bee line for either you or them and just rail on either until destroyed. And Jumping from nav point to nav point is annoying during escorts because if you are so much as a few seconds off the jump times with the escorted ships, you lose the mission.. or more enemies will warp in, leaving the escorted ship at the next nav point and you stuck dealing with 3 to 8 enemy combatants. The inflight music is just horrendous, throbbing into my brain like pile driver would into a train wreck. The PDA system is a bit confusing at first, but functional, was much simpler in Privateer 1. The space combat is okay, but repetitive, as you will find yourself having to reload and refly the same stretch of space over and over and over again because you will warp in only to get immediately pounded in to space dust or to have your escort ship eviscerated because you were too far away dealing with other ships. This has nothing to do with the Wing Commander storyline and is more of a sequel in that it a space flight sim with cargo management. If you want a better 'sequel' to Privateer, go play Freelancer
I sat down, and I started playing and it was i like I was back in my childhood, sitting down with a Genesis, playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2. There is plenty to speed through but if you want, you can take your time too to sit and explore everything as well. If you love old retro games, and modern games that ape retro games, this one I highly recommend. It's colourful and bright and easy to control, and most of all fun. =^.,.^=
