Freespace 2: Death of a Star (in HD)

Freespace2: Death of a Star - Capella has gone Supernova!
©1999 Volition, Inc.

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• Descent
• Freespace
• Silent
• Threat
• Freespace2
• Interplay
• Volition
• PC
• Game
• SpaceSim
• Terran
• Vasudan
• Shivan

[lekonua]

Best video game explosion ever. Period.

[DilaZirK]

Thanks for putting up all these awesome HD Freespace cutscenes! I really missed them.

[thatguy126]

never played two.....only one

[mcz1945]

@Kilvana I never enjoyed playing FS with joystick, I always used the keyboard only even in multiplayer :)

[TheXarutouzucrack]

a enormous troble to destroy one juggernaut.

I think I will retire.

[BlueStarFlower]

This scene is probably the most epic climax to a game I can remember. Then it tantalizes you with a cliffhanger. Then they didn't make a sequel! Damn you Volition! I'll buy Freespace 3 if you make it! I promise!!!

[AnnetteXP]

@ Kilvana - Tried playing this with a trackball. Works very well if you use an inverse mouse.

[Kilvana]

Now with the lack of people owning joysticks i doubt it ever will be as the player base doesn't exist. Sure, you can play on keyboard or mouse but its not the same. Sigh.

This site shows an interview with one of the devs/creators of the series explaining where the series was going/ending. Real shame about it never being made.

search for "at last the truth shivans"

[TheOglibogli]

@lekonua If not the biggest too.

[notkhbutteam]

@242nd AFAIK |V| had no idea what to do with shivans and they had no specific idea for FS3. Personally, I think all the Satahasses were meant to leave, but few of them simply lost power.

[242nd]

@Rhoadster91 Mysteries of the Shivans... Something that Volition was probably going to answer in Freespace 3 which sadly will never happen due to legal issues regarding ownership of the franchise, Volition created the games yes but they were published and owned by Interplay which went bankrupt about a decade ago and somewhere in that dead companies endless paperwork are the files that show ownership of the franchise which are unobtainable by any means, its quiet sad really.

[NorwegianBastard]

I enjoy the open vistas that these games left me after completion, but I'd LOVE to see this gameserie's story end in a fantastic and climatic finish of Freespace 3!