Freespace 2: Introduction (in HD)

[mcz1945]

If all the people who say its a great game did not pirate it but bought it we might have had Freespace 3 already, at least now go and buy it on GOG.

[BlueStarFlower]

Is it me or does this game have a sorta biblical, cataclysmic feel to it? Makes me tingle

[demonbre]

@BlueStarFlower it's not you :)

[Screwlwork]

@BlueStarFlower totally most of the rebel ships have awesome old testament names

[elilla331]

~12 years and that intro still gives me chills.

[JamikKim27]

I still love watching this even now...It was awesome when I first saw it when I was still very young...With the SCP and Hard Light Productions free upgrades and great people, the game looks as stunning as in the cutscene, in a different way, but still meets the modern standards; almost like and entirely new game. :-)

[imstm]

who flagged ajsknights comment.. you didn't have to .. Freelancer is better.. just lucky there wasn't a Freelancer 2.. can you dock at places in freespace? i would like to know

[ajsknight]

@imstm Buddy I do not need to dock or fly around with my tiny little fighter around an open world cause thats not the kind of fun I would expect. I mean be honest wouldn't you like to fly a SJ Sathanas or a GTVA Colossus through open space annihilating anything that is in your way. Those ships have the brute firepower to do so. I know, I know you can neither do this in Freespace 2 nor in Freelancer cause in NO OTHER game you ever had such DETAILED BIG capital ships that had the config we see!

[imstm]

@ajsknight can you dock at space stations and buy and sell that's all im asking and i might get the game..

[ajsknight]

@imstm Well sorry buddy if I misunderstood you. Well you can not dock and sell or buy things as FS is a pure mission based space combat simulator but one heck of a kind that it is. You will definitly not regret it, GET IT! :). It has EPIC weapons, EPIC ships, EPIC introduction, an EPIC storyline ... well in one word it is EPIC hehe :P.

[imstm]

@ajsknight thanks for your reply.. but when i was younger that was interesting but now i'm into stuff like that where you can do your own thing that is why i was addicted to Freelancer.. what other games do you know about.. can you fly a ship in Mass Effect or Mass Effect 2?

[ajsknight]

@imstm Well you fly the normandy its your ship that you have in ME but it can not engage in ship to ship combat. You can just fly around the starmap around the planets/systems.

Well I know also the X-Series / Wing Commander series and the like which are kinda close to the FS series but none of it can give you this suspension of belief in capital ship combat like the FS series can, let alone that the storyline is simply EPIC ... sorry no other to describe this ;).

[imstm]

@ajsknight thanks ;).. for now i'll stick to Fifa and Hitman but i will get a space game in the future

[Ignuus66]

@imstm try freelancer, it has what you need XD

[imstm]

@Ignuus66 i had it before.. looking for something new but there isn't otherwise yes Freelancer ;) the best !

[ajsknight]

@imstm Freespace 2 is VERY UNIQUE in this as like I said you have huge super capital ships with +80 turrets which ALL differ as you have small ANTI-FIGHTER/BOMBER beams as well as FLAK turrets shredding entire wings in seconds, as well as MISSILE BATTERIES helping the FLAK to do even more damage small sized ships and last but not least HUGE ANTI-CAPITAL beam turrets, ALL of those weapons with their OWN animations, charge ups etc. and EVEN SLASHING BEAMS!

NO OTHER GAME has this detail like FS 2!

[ajsknight]

@imstm The only game that at least comes a bit close to this is maybe the X-series where you are able to fly big ships unlike FS2 but those ships neither are that much detailed with subsystems etc. nor do they have the turret count nor do they have the many different kinds of weapons like huge beam guns in different versions used for anti capship fight nor small anti-fighter/bomber beams which are also in different versions and have their own charge up animations ...

[ajsknight]

@imstm ... NO GAME even up to today can create so much suspension of belief in the capship fights as the Freespace series can cause Volition took their time to study the second world war (cause that was their example for the huge battles that were about to see in FS) and especially the big ships that were built to those times like the Bismark or Yamato which REALLY existed and also had different kinds of weapons ...

[ajsknight]

@imstm ... from the very big artillery guns (a.k.a. huge anti capital beam cannons in FS) with different caliber sizes down to small flak guns (FLAK guns in FS or missile batteries for anti fighter usage as well as the minor anti fighter beams)!

Thats why I find this game so awesome even If I can NOT simply fly around with a Sathanas or Colossus shredding everything in my wake and annihilating entire planets ;) its still awesome to SEE and ACT with those ships in open space!

[imstm]

freelancer is better

[LgndryThndr]

0:52 when the music starts I get shivers.

[shadowg0ds123]

can u play this game online

[Cr1zza]

Why is there a Hades?

[henryhenriquez]

@Cr1zza huh? where?

[Cr1zza]

@henryhenriquez When the camera swing over the planet surface, you can see a crashed capital ship...imo this is a Hades, isn't it?

[henryhenriquez]

@Cr1zza i see no hades.. a i see an orion.. tell me at witch moment. time.

[Cr1zza]

@henryhenriquez Iknow the legion;)

From 2:47 till 2:58 you can see a crashed capship...

[henryhenriquez]

@Cr1zza nope thats one of those fuastus.. if i remember right the hades isnt even on this planet

[henryhenriquez]

@Cr1zza after takking a mutch closer lok trough my own game. i conclude that that is the hades.... thank you for poin that out

[Cr1zza]

@henryhenriquez

No problem.

[levilisko]

lol i thought the manticore was about to shot a beam :P at 2:24

[crazy88boss]

And they hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear...

[DarkRezo]

bah, the fighter wreck on the planet was Hercules ship, The wreck in space is their Main command ship from 1st WAR called Bastion. imo.

[lykan2]

No, it is not the Bastion, the Shipwreck in space are unnamed. The Bastion is send 32 years later to destroy the jumpnote (what was the name?)

please forgive me my bad english ;)

[Desertfox287]

capella ;)

[lykan2]

yeah right^^

[jhzh]

@DarkRezo "In the FreeSpace 2 intro cutscene, which depicts the Battle of Deneb (2335), the SD Lucifer's beam weapon pierces the hull of an unknown Orion-class Destroyer..." " Volition was fairly clear this ship was not the Galatea. A community member asked if the ship could be called the Legion. Volition responded, "Call it that if you want," so the ship is generally referred to as the Legion."

[DIVOTMOVIES]

Who would like to see that as a mission?

[221b]

@DIVOTMOVIES You fight the Battle of Deneb in Freespace 1.

[DIVOTMOVIES]

no you don't i played it though twice, in the campaign we fought the Eva, not the battle of

deneb. trust me dude.

[EliteGod000]

Shivans pwn all :)

[Eltrotraw]

Interesting note: 2:49 - 3:00

That's the GTD Hades, isn't it?

[lykan2]

hmmm ya you right looks like the wreck of Hades

[cptmaxon]

nope GTD Hades wasn't an Orion Class Destroyer but had a class of it's own the Hades Class.

that's the GTD Legion out there

[Eltrotraw]

Please note I was talking about the wreckage ON THE PLANET in 2:49 - 3:00, not the Orion that was destroyed in the intro.

I don't remember where the GTI Hades was destroyed in Silent Threat, but I don't recall it being in Deneb(unless it's been that long for me, but still, a wreck on the planet?)

[crazy88boss]

@Eltrotraw Yes. It was Deneb III where the Hades went down.

[buzzsaw5]

Yes that is the Hades model on the planet, which still isn't explained. Kind of odd since it was destroyed in space and not crashed into a planet.

[asdreabel]

Wow. Funny how thats the Collosus in the final scenes even though the great beast was only revealed halfway through the game.........

[CyReNiUsX]

Thanks for HD.

[Joxskorner1]

I played this game for hours on end at age 7-10 Thank you for reminding me of my childhood :D