[Thor]

I have the opportunity to buy Starlancer really cheaply.  I was wondering if it was worth buying and playing or not.  If anyone has played it, let me know what you thought of it.

Edit:  dam I forgot a poll.  Put a 1 if you liked, 2 if you didn't and 3 if you aren't sure

[vyper]

(1) it rocked

Alright - its not FreeSpace, but nothing ever really has been better. The graphics is superb, and I can remember some very cool moments involving me, a cloaking device and a big-ass-thing which I won't tell u about incase u actually buy the game.

[Pegasus V]

This is the prequel for Freelancer isn't it?

[Fineus]

Yep, if FL ever comes out.

[Pegasus V]

Originally posted by Thunder
Yep, if FL ever comes out.

Hehe, tell me about it!

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Hmm... Freelancer.

Freespace
Starlancer
anyone?

Since Starlancer was a rip-off of FS anyway, this is evil!

[Unknown Target]

lol

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
Since Starlancer was a rip-off of FS anyway, this is evil!

How did you work that out? The story is totally different...the style is totally different...

[Thorn]

Speaking of which... where in the nine hells is Mik?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Thunder

How did you work that out? The story is totally different...the style is totally different...

yeah, freespace style is good, starlancer style is not. this game can be resumed by "shoot down the torpedoes before they destroy your capship which is anyway useless coz it can't defend itself, can't kill other capships, can't do crap but annoying you by being target"

[NeoHunter]

In my own opinion, I think Starlancer is a so-so game with average graphics if you compare to FreeSpace. Some of the missions are almost difficult complete unless you died  a few times then you will know the sequence of events in the mission. Your fighter can't do anything to big capital ships. Not like FreeSpace where you have bad ass torpedoes like the Cyclops and the Helios.

So, I give it a "buy-it-if-you-are-loaded".

[Thorn]

You can so do stuff to capships... you have to knock out the shields first....

[Windrunner]

I recommend you to buy beacuse the dogfighting is awesome  in SL

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Thorn
You can so do stuff to capships... you have to knock out the shields first....

And you do get to fly bombers for a couple of the missions IIRC.

Also, the games got good graphics (although the backgrounds leave something to be desired the rest of it rawks).

[Stealth]

what's this IIRC?

is this starlancer you're talking about?

[Thor]

Apparently.

[Thorn]

IIRC = If I Recall/Remember Correctly

[Ace]

I thought the game was decent. The control scheme and way the ships handled I did not appreciate however. (It doesn't handle like WC/FS)

Missions I felt were a little dry, on average it was the same three mission types repeated over and over: Destroy enemies, defend target from torpedo, destroy subsystem. Though FS is limited to this type of gameplay, for some reason it seems less blunt about it then Starlancer.

However there are some memorable missions. The first with a wormhole, the unloading torpedoes into a Ruskie capship, and the flying inside of a hollowed-out asteroid are fun missions. Sadly it needed more missions like this IMHO.

[Nico]

yeah, the wormhole one was very nice.
other bad point: you criticize FS2 AI? try and play Starlancer and oh! magic! after that, you'll think the AI programmers are gods
to sum up: you can't do more stupid than Starlancer AI...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

The only good thing about Starlancer is that the demo was really the full game! If you used the level skip cheat, you could paly any mission, evn those not included as part of the demo! You could also enter a cheat which allowed any ship and any weapon!