🚀 go-pugleaf

I've been playing my way through some of the space games I never got to 
try as an Amiga owner, and having enjoyed most so far, came to 
Freespace.

I'd heard a lot of praise heaped on the game so that might have made it 
a bit unfair, but I have to say that I wasn't a huge fan of the game.

The combat is fine, I enjoyed refining the control settings and 
dogfighting my way through the Shivan forces, but the game seemed to 
lack atmosphere - no pun intended. I never really felt inspired to tweak 
my weapon settings or change my ship, the game world just didn't really 
seem to come to life in the way that Freelancer and particuarly the IWar 
games did. IWar 2 in particular, just getting back to your secret base 
was cool!

For me Freespace was definitely a good game, and no argument, the combat 
side of things was excellent fun, but that was pretty much it, and given 
the prestige the game enjoys I felt slightly disappointed.

My grumble isn't about the graphics, but for the record I was playing 
the original, non-modded version of the game.

Should I try Freespace 2?