FreeSpace 2

FreeSpace 2

Year: 1999
Platform(s): PC
Designer(s): Adam Pletcher
Developer: Volition
Publisher: Interplay

"If Freespace 2 isn't remembered for its excellent storyline, that's only because the space combat gameplay was accomplished enough to obscure all else. Following on from Descent: Freespace, FS2 saw humanity cut off from Earth and once again fending off the expansionist tendencies of the marauding Shivans. Fighter to fighter combat had never been better, but it was the hulking capital ships with their deafening beam weapons that gave Freespace 2's conflicts such a sense of scale. The only down point to the game was that it ended on a cliffhanger, one that was never actually resolved." - Empire