Comments on: +11-12 Years: Starcraft 2 Versus Freespace 2

By: romansiii

romansiii — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:30:01 +0000

I have to say, this is the best PC game ever and it’s a dam shame that Freespace 3 was never made. That moment of joy as you destroyed the Ravana was gold.

By: Free Bingo Games

Free Bingo Games — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:07:23 +0000

Awesome game liked it very much.

By: Ack

Ack — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:19:40 +0000

Played FS2 with a Logitech Trackman, which was essentially the speed of a joystick with the accuracy of a mouse. Nothing else came close.

Now I have Trackman + G13. Can’t wait to play it once again! :>

By: kratchovil

kratchovil — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:40:56 +0000

I seem to be a little late, but if anyone reads this, I’ve got to recommend the “Just Another Day” Freespace mods (there are three of them). They transform the game into the greatest comedy I’ve ever seen as far as games are concerned, and the missions are fun as hell. That’s probably because JAD just provides to me what I really want: Tight mega-battles, humour and a good storyline.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:42:53 +0000

It is important to note that Freespace 2 was remarkable for the storyline and plot, as well as the graphics/sound/interface. After playing both FS1 and FS2, IMO this was the most notable difference–instead of having numerous missions which were, for the most part, straightforward, FS2 involves a player through in-game dialogue as well as important events, etc… Also, FS2:Open is incredibly remarkable, especially for an open-source project.

By: kree

kree — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:03:21 +0000

There is nothing better and more epic in the space sim genre than FreeSpace. With FS2_Open, it easily busts even modern game in terms of eyecandy, yet doesnt require latest GF card. And the user made mods and campaigns are the endless resource of fun. For me, best game EVAR!

P.S. I play it with a mouse, and it works great. Just increase sensitivity, the default is a bit too low. There is nothing better than a mouse for precise aim during dogfights and shooting down anti-capitalship bombs.

By: Det. Bullock

Det. Bullock — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:27:33 +0000

I didn’t have such problemes with the installer (are you using Turey’s one?), perhaps you tried it when they were doing maintenance on the server.
I had problems the first time too, the second time I registered in the Hard-light forum and asked about the problems I was encountering.
Anyway try it, it loooks faboulous.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:22:01 +0000

I’m currently playing Freespace 2 using a dual analog pad. Both sticks work fine. I use one for pitch/yaw and the other for throttle/roll.

By: Gerg

Gerg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:48:31 +0000

I bought freespace 2 off gog.com a couple months ago. Downloaded the open source project, and fired it up.

I haven’t gobbled up a game that fast in a long time. There’s really nothing else like it.

I’m still waiting for a space game of any kind to give the awesome sense of destruction when a capital goes critical and sends a shockwave out, destroying things around it.

Also, DIVE DIVE DIVE! HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!

Best mission ever, I did not make it the first time…

By: john

john — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:04:52 +0000

Wow, the open freespace 2 installer is easily one of the worst installers I’ve used. Aside from breaking tons of UI conventions, it didn’t even install correctly because download servers were down. I tried again a few days later and they’re STILL down. And maybe I’m just stupid, but I had to use the (confusing) guide on their wiki just to know how to use the installer.

Yeah, I’m probably a tremendous idiot. But is it worth going through all that trouble? I played an unmodded freespace 1 a while ago and didn’t think it looked particularly ugly.

By: FS2Fan

FS2Fan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:54:07 +0000

This is why i use a combination of keyboard and mouse for dogfights. The mouse is simply used to give that fine touch accuracy to kill a fast moving shivan or laser down the bombs from the nahemas.

I’ll never stop playing FS2, maybe until someone can come up with a great game like that.

By: GameOverMan

GameOverMan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:34:55 +0000

Freespace 2 is epic, I’ve never stopped playing it, in one form or another, original game, SCP, new campaigns or standalone mods.

The game can be controlled with a mouse without having to drag it all the time, I use PPJoy to emulate a virtual joystick with the PPJoy Mouse tool, you can map buttons and adjust the sensitivity for the X, Y and Z axes.