Разработчик: City Interactive
Описание
Perhaps even more...
- 21 missions in the campaign
- Outstanding 3D graphics and special effects
- Original storyline with unexpected turns and surprises
- A variety of space combat missions including escort, strike, and rescue operations
- Missions in open space, on planets and moons
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
- Processor: Pentium III 700 MHz processor
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: ATI Radeon 7500 or GeForce 2 with 32 MB RAM
- DirectX®: DirectX 9.0
Отзывы пользователей
no radar, unguided "missile", these are 2 major cons I can't bear.
What's more, strafe is unusable even I upgrade speed to max level.
Sound: 6
Graphics: 6
Story: 3
Gameplay: 6
Commands: 6
Fun: 5
Time to load / lag: 9
Bugs / Problems: 9
Final score: 5
I’ve played through all 21 missions in about six hours and found this to be a decent-enough casual space shooter. As a budget title, I wouldn’t say there’s anything amazing about Project Freedom, just enough to keep my interest all the way to the end of the campaign. Probably the most outstanding aspect are the graphics: stills looks good for something released in 2004, with gorgeous sky boxes, backgrounds and that special “I’m in space!” feeling. I also appreciated the art direction as we’ll get to visit places not usually featured in video games such as a named asteroid in the solar system or Io, a moon of Jupiter. The design and layout of ground installations, and also ships of course, seemed appropriate for the setting and crafted with great care.
Otherwise, I’d rate Project Freedom as average. The plot was interesting but unfulfilling as several plot points were hinted at but not explored (or deliberately left for a sequel?), voice acting was serviceable but certainly not terrible, the soundtrack did its job and I had few complains regarding the controls. Taking inspiration from Freelancer, movement and targeting and weapon management is achieved almost exclusively with the mouse. The only other things you’ll have to worry about is the throttle, boost and secondary weapon selection.
I did have some nitpicks, however:
1) Our nameless space craft didn’t appear particularly well-suited for any mission profile. Too slow to be an interceptor, too unmaneuverable to be a space superiority fighter, wrong weapon/turret configuration to be a heavy fighter or ground attack craft.
2) Did I mention the craft was dog goddamn slow? Also, I had to wait until the second to last mission for turbo/boost to be unlocked. It had a long cooldown to boot.
3) The basic energy cannon is terribly short-ranged even for dog-fighting.
3) There’s no radar of any type and enemies aren’t marked until they’re well within visual range, leaving one guessing as to where they are and coming from. Targets not on screen are marked with arrows on each screen border, but there’s no differentiation between fighter, battleship, hostile ground target, civilian ground target etc.
4) Overall, the campaign worked quite well except for one sudden difficulty spike. Missions 7 and 8 send your ship against overwhelming odds without having much in the way of ship upgrades. I had to restart the entire thing on easy difficulty because I just couldn’t prevail despite my best efforts and 20 or so combined attempts. There is no adjustable difficulty in this game, you’ll have to start over. Ironically, most of the later missions which should have been more challenging on paper would have been quite manageable thanks to receiving better weapons, a shield generator and auto-repair module. But easy was really just TOO easy, more like a shooting gallery.
Technical problems:
1) As delivered by Steam, the game will crash when attempting to play a cutscene or even the intro movies. Best I can tell, the bundled decoder appears to rely on some depreciated code from WinXP or older. Tried multiple compatibility settings, transcoding the video files and swapping out the MPEG-1 decoder for something else. No luck. Options are to rename all files in the installation folder or use a dummy mpeg.dll file from the PCGaming Wiki or Steam forums.
If you’re in the mood for a casual Freelance-style space shooter and don’t have the highest expectations, it may be worth picking up on sale for a buck or two.
I bought this game when it was new, about 13 years ago, played it for about an hour, then forgot about it until now.
I was able to play the tutorial, but could not get a new game to start. It just crashed.
As far as the tutorial goes, the controls are not good, but the voiceover acting is decent and the Blade/Matrix style soundtrack is bangin'.
Overall not an entertaining game.
By default the game will crash on startup on Win Vista or later systems. To fix it you will have to either replace the mpeg.dll file in the game's root folder with a dummy file you can find here on the games PCGamingWiki page or simply delete all the video files from the movies folder. Minor annoyance, easily fixed.
I was also pleased to discover that, contrary to what some reviews are saying, Project Freedom actually DOES have (some) joystick support! It's just very picky about what it considers a joystick. It fully recognises input from my T16000M, and possibly some other well known joysticks as well. However, it does not recognise my VKBSIM Gladiator or any virtual joysticks created by software like vJoy and JoystickGremlin.
Fun game. Absolutely worth the price.
Project Freedom is a poorly designed space shooting game.
Cons:
-Crash at startup. So I have to delete all mpg files from movies folder.
-No game manual. The Steam version only provides a key chart.
-Crude UI design.
-The battle field is a mess. I can't figure out any object.
-There is no range indicator. I didn't know whether my laser cannon hit the target or not.
-Enemy fighters killed me so many time in the mission 2. I doubt those developers know how to make an easy mode.
I think Tachyon: The Fringe is much better than this one.
SUGGESTED ON SALE ONLY
A simple game but fun game. Even now in 2022. The graphics is dated but the gameplay is very good. Very pick up and play game. Not complex in any way. The story is interesting.
Only issues I have is I wish the research reward system was better explained (with more details of what you'll get)
And the very annoying bug with videos in steam (easily fixed by removing the movies from the steam files).
FURTHER UPDATE
Finished the game and the story does take you to new places. Although it all just culminates in an alien attack on Earth. Fun short game. Not much depth in it though. And the video bug kinda spoils the game alot especially crashing the game at the final cutscene.
Gameplay: 7/10
Graphics: 7/10
Sound: 6/10
Story: 6/10
Replay/Value: 7/10
Overall: 6.6/10
Got this for around a dollar during a sale, and for that much you can't complain. I originally played the disc version several years ago when this was known as Starmageddon 2 / Space Interceptor, so I'm pretty familiar with this game. Story is pretty linear and ends abruptly, but the gameplay holds it up. Only problems with this game is that the music while good, gets repetitive due to the limited soundtrack, and the AI is broken at times. Still worth the price nonetheless.
A quick fun arcade space shooter with cool old school space visuals. No bugs or glitches and provides a couple days worth of good entertainment.
If you´re looking for an arcade spaceship game, this is a great option.
Good graphics, lots of complimentary dialogues, even a quick save option. Cool techno soundtrack.
No sandbox, only a series of missions with very specific objectives.
I´ve been looking for nothing but space ship games in the last four months or so.
I´ve completed five of them, ditched four, and am currently playing this plus six others.
Of the six I´m playing now, this is the most balanced in terms of graphics, story line, game play, soundtrack, challenge, and variety of missions. (one game has more story but way less graphics; the other has greater graphics / complexity but is super hard and has no story... and so on)
Plus it´s cheap.
P.S.: it´s in indie games, so expect some glitches, like enemy tanks that can move through rock walls. Also, I remapped some keys and now I cannot strafe or boost
P.S: the boost is an upgrade, I managed to use it later in the game
Worth the 50 cents I paid for it. The voice acting is actually kind of funny, so often these cheap flight sims have terrible storylines and acting but this one made me laugh at the quips a few times. The secondary weapons are kind of useless and you get a lot of ammo but overall the combat was nice. I just wish it supported a joystick or game controller but a mouse works alright.
It's a very decent old-tech space shooter for a buck or less. Your fighter is equipped with several types of blasters and missiles and slowly upgrades as you get through missions. Point and shoot, and try to stay alive. 8.5h to play through the entire campaign on 'explore' mode. NPC chatter gets repetitive. Decent bit of entertainment for a decent price.
Decent space shooter that offers an afternoon's worth of gameplay. You will have a good afternoon.
IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE STARTING:
Go into the game folder and cut/paste or move all the movie (Mpeg I think) files to a different directory. You can even watch them with a media player if you want. Just don't let the game use them. Also, the highest resolution seems buggy.
BUT, if you get past that it's a very fun little space shooter.
Fun, simple basic game. If you tried X Rebirth or Parkan 2 like me and immediately got lost, this is the game for you.
The controls are mostly good but the ones for roll were a bit idiosyncratic so I re-mapped them. Be advised that in this game if you want to remap buttons, you have to make sure that you are using buttons that aren't already used for another function. This means that if you really want to change the controls, you have to first assign actions to buttons you don't use, then assign the actions to the newly empty buttons you want. For instance, I wanted to move the roll buttons to A and D rather than W and S so I had to first set strafe controls to buttons that I didn't use, then assign roll to A and S, then assign the strafe buttons to buttons I wanted to use.
Remapping the controls felt a little bit like doing a sliding squares puzzle but after I did, I was able to get a control set up which I liked really well.
It was a very enjoyable game... until I got to the ending. It just ends. No congrats, no cutscenes, no story it just ends when you destroy the last objective in mission 21. I couldn't believe it so I looked it up online and saw that it is actually supposed to be like that... wow! It just ends...
Then I found out that there were apparently cutscenes which were never ported to the Steam version of the game... really sad to see a potentially awesome game let down by the developers like that.
How does one appropriately rate a game? With Project Freedom, it was a difficult choice.
Let's talk about the good things about Project Freedom. It's pretty fast-paced, and the actual gameplay--space fighter combat--is quite enjoyable. You have several weapons available, useful for different things. Lasers are good for taking down enemy fighters. Missiles and the plasma weapon are good for targeting large buildings on planets, freighters, and capital ships. The gameplay itself is pretty good.
But the plot is pretty simplistic (Human factions are fighting each other, a couple alien races show up and you ultimately have to destroy a huge station/space ship), there are no characters, and the bare bones upgrade system almost may as well not have been included--just decide whether you want to upgrade engines, defenses, or weapons, and the game seems to choose which particular sub-upgrade you get within the category of your choice.
I can't remember any of the music, having now played PF twice. Contrast this with, for example, Darkstar One. Darkstar One really isn't a great game--but I can still remember the main theme music, and the quirkiness of the main and secondary characters.
But, once again, the gameplay is pretty solid. PF didn't really have major flaws--there's just not much meat in this package. And in consequence, I only spent something like $3 or $4 on PF, and once I bought it, it only took ~5 hours to beat the ~20 missions. So even if there are a few annoyances, and a general lack of interesting content . . . it won't last for very long, and during that time you have nice, fast-paced space-blasting melee. And how much different is that from, say, Counter Strike? Except, CS is replayable because it's multiplayer and has tons of maps. So it was kind of hard for me to say No instead of Yes on this game.
So I'll say this. Don't go into PF expecting a whole lot. If you're fan of space shoot 'em ups, go ahead and buy it, but make sure you don't pay much. Go in, blast some baddies, and get out. (That's what I did, yes, TWICE, since that part was pretty fun, and I kind of wondered if something might jump out at me the second time around.) If you want something that's a lot more amusing, colorful, and enjoyable and has a decent amount of meat, buy Darkstar One, for example. But I don't think your average player will find a lot of interest in Project Freedom.
5/10.
The game was awesome until we got to mission 21. The end was unfinished when the after objection was complete. Needs conclusion after this, their were no promotion, acknowledgements of any kind. Just nothing really.
A short Action-Shooter in space (~4h to complete).
No more, no less.
Runs smoothly on my win7 64bit machine.
I bought it for 1€ on Winter Sale, worth it.
Pros
pretty enough for me (not hard)
control is responsive
runs smooth on older PC
Cons
mouse is not locked to game screen on multi monitor setups
voice acting is sometimes bad
friendly AI does nothing
secondary weapons are only good against stationary targets
controls are limited
gameplay is shallow
gfx settings are limited
music is repeditive and doesnt match the gameplay
"Right between the eyes!"
It's suppose to be a action based Simulation right? Well it's more a lowered down version of Free lancer, whats diffrent here you think? They take away all your freedom to do as pleased and instead you are forced on each mission but before you go out on mission you can choose which upgrade you want to get upgraded from the reward and the things you can level are Attack, Defence and Speed.
You can to select easyli what upgrade to take and sometimes you get your weapon /sheild / engines upgraded. For being 3€ on steam it's not to bad... but I would recomand this game to people who enjoys being a lapdog and forced doing mission for upgrades.
Oh yeah the lock on missels will miss 90% of the time so if you are lucky with it might hit.
It's a very linear space fighter game wherein the general idea is "crush kill destroy you are the STRONGEST IN THE UNIVERSE". You get to upgrade your ship as time passes, but that's the only customization there is; minimal replay value due to exactly one campaign and no modding. Story's okay, voice acting's generally good but has a few terribad spots, mostly where the script obviously wanted characters to be interrupted but the devteam didn't bother making the pauses between different characters speaking have anything other than a fixed interval.
Basically: It's good fun, and it's incredibly cheap at the moment (75 cents) so you don't really have that much to lose by buying it.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | City Interactive |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 27.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 84% положительных (81) |