One of the best and most addictive games I have ever played! Outstanding online multiplayer too!
User Rating: 9.5 | Freelancer PC
Freelancer is definitely one of the most fun and addictive Sci - Fi adventures of all time. It has an excellent single player with a great storyline as you play as Trent, one of the few survivors of a space station that was destroyed by pirates. Left on the planet Manhattan in the New York space system he needs to get a new ship and start making some credits. He decides to work with the LSF (Liberty Security Force) serving under Juni. I won't spoil it any more. Freelancer is set in a MASSIVE Universe with 5 main sectors containing over 40 space systems to explore. Each space system is uniquely designed with its own individual planets and space systems, asteroid belts etc. Whether you choice to be a merchant, escort, soldier, pirate or smuggler your destiny must unfold in this thrilling adventure. In the single player you do have to follow quite a linear path with set objectives you have to complete, but it does give you some freedom in how you make money and what ship you decide to fly. The storyline is well put together and the cut scenes are well made. The multiplayer is what amazed me though. Anyone who buys the Freelancer disc will notice it comes with a program called FLServer installed in the directory. This allows you to make your own server and put it on the internet for other players to join and play together. There is a huge amount of online activity with the serious servers having up to 60 players online at once all serving different causes. Clans can be made online and players will soon asume roles of merchants, and pirates etc. This is just like an MMORPG but obviously free to play online and with the servers run by ordinary people! Online is tremendously fun as Clan wars take place and the PvP is great. There is a MASSIVE range of ship types with light fighter ships to heavy freighter cargo ships which can all be completely customised to with different guns, engines, shields etc. The visuals are good and Freelancer is definitely one of the most memorable games I own. 
