Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War

IF you were ever planning to buy this, don't. just get FreeSpace 2, Knossos, FSPort, and ur good

It crashes and won't let me alt-f4 or task manager to close it. the only way to close the game is to restart my computer. As well as not letting me set up settings for the joystick it was really disappointing because I remember playing this and I loved it.

I love this game it is amazing BUT it won't run normally direct from Steam you have to do a bunch of stuff just to get it to run properly, stuff which I don't know how or what to do. This crashes my computer every time I open it.
You shouldn't have to download stuff or alter stuff to play a game from the 90s with the tech we have today it should be easy enough for them to make it able to run without a problem but sadly this is not the case.
If you want to play this game then expect hassles getting it to run, I personally only have it in my list because I'm a die hard fan who's loved it since it 1st came out & I hope one day that they'll fix it so it can be played easily on steam.
So even though I do think this game is amazing & worth playing if you don't want hassles trying to get it to run give this a pass until they fix the game. Same goes for Freespace 2.

Corneria, fourth planet of the Lylat
system. The evil Andross turned this
once thriving system into a wasteland
of near extinction.

General Pepper of the Cornerian army
was successful in exiling this maniacal
scientist to the barren, deserted
planet Venom.

Five years later, General Pepper noticed
strange activity coming from Venom.
James McCloud, Pigma Dengar, and Peppy
Hare of the Star Fox team were sent to
investigate.

Upon their arrival, Pigma betrayed the
team and James and Peppy were captured
by Andross.

Peppy barely escaped Venom and returned
home to tell James’ son Fox about his
father’s fate.


A few years have passed. Andross has
again invaded the Lylat system.

General Pepper has turned to a new
Star Fox team headed by Fox McCloud
to save Corneria and to free the

Lylat system once again.

I love this game. I used to play it all the time as when i was kid.

Freespace, and its successor, Freespace 2, are the best space sims of their generation. I played both extensively in my teenage years. I joined the multiplayer community where players could gain control of star systems in an overarching and ever-changing campaign. I recall being a member of DarkWing at the time, specializing in bomber craft. I would build basic missions using FRED or FRED2 and practice bombing runs! It was a wild ride.

Fast forward to the present, and the drought of space sim games becomes evident. It is a genre that deserves revival - something that VR may help achieve. Star Wars: Squadrons is the best of the current crop,. It distills many of the excellent features and experiences of the sims that came before it, Freespace included.

If you love space sim games, there's so many from the 90's. Start with Freespace, and you won't be disappointed!

I just wish Volition, before they were shuttered, stopped making Saint's Row games for a hot minute and revived this classic franchise. Alas, Interplay made it difficult for them, as they always do.