🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:54:01 GMT, "DocScorpio"
<DocScorpio@strupra-spammeros.com> wrote:

>
>"Anssi Saari" <as@sci.fi> wrote in message 
>news:vg3bqs2cr37.fsf@pepper.modeemi.cs.tut.fi...
>> Shingen <shingen@aolsuks.sbcglobal.net> writes:
>>
>>> Tried that demo. Seems to be the usual Freelancer remake
>>
>> Have there been many freelancer remakes then? I found Freelancer
>> utterly forgettable, so maybe it's no wonder I haven't noticed any
>> remakes...
>>
>>> Anyway, the game was rather sluggish on my kit, but it was quite
>>> pretty visually. The story seemed to be more rehash of the
>>> freelancer/X2 plot. Ugh! Can't any of these game writers think of more
>>> original storylines?
>>
>> Wasn't Freelancer's plot about some kind of aliens taking over humans
>> or something? Not exactly very original. I've been playing DS1 a while
>> (German release, released in May already), but so far the plot has
>> been pretty much a man hunt, running around in daddy's unique ship,
>> looking for the guy who killed him.
>
>Because of the intro cutscene, I leapt to the perhaps unwarranted assumption 
>that DS1 was also about an alien invasion.
>
>I see from the demo in-ship cutscene that the Darkstar One is not really a 
>one-man, fighter-sized ship, but something considerably larger.....perhaps 
>similar to the ships in Parkan, or a smaller version of the M. Falcon.
>
>Also, I like the new playmate....er, fellow adventurer....you acquire near 
>the end of the demo storyline.  Nice to have some company in your ship on 
>those long nights (and it's always night in space). :) 

This game is so much like Freelancer.  The way you pick up missions seems
almost identical, including the way they all seem to scale to your 'level'. I
think this may be nothing more than a weeks diversion for me but I'll probably
get it anyway since what else is out there at the moment.