Personally I was a little disappointed by this title. It hasn't aged well. While it is great to see a young Clive Owen in action, particularly knowing the heights he was going to go on to reach, he is one of the few high points of this game. The cut scenes are very hard to watch on today's modern LCD/LED monitors, and I quickly found myself running this game in windows mode in order to make the cut scenes more watchable. This was my main problem, I am no expert with dos box and older games (while I am over 40, I never owned a PC until I was in my 30's). Due to this, I spent around two hours continuously entering and exiting the game, just tweaking the visuals in order to be able to play it. While the game didn't cost much, I (naively, possibly) thought I would at least get a game I could 'pick and up play,' which is not the case. Even now, despite my efforts to find the right '3D' format for my graphics card, I still get a lot of stuttering in the frame rate when the game get 'busy.' The most annoying aspect is that I cannot tweak things 'in game' mainly because this is a very lazy effort by someone who just 'dos boxed' the original game with no consideration for issues with modern systems. As far as the game play goes, I can see why there is no 'Privateer 3.' Frankly, cut scenes to one side (the only redeeming feature), this game sucks big time. Boring, one dimensional game play. A very cumbersome trading system, that could have been done much better, even back in its day. Endlessly repetitive combat, with the same four or five 'insults' (that become very annoying, very quickly) on a constant loop; the benefit of which, is that, you actually want to kill your opponent just to end to benign chatter. The missions are completely pointless, and usually require you to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other for no discernible reason than to 'explore' a featureless, boring universe. This game is total pants. Can I have money back please?
