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After a day with the Descent: Freespace demo...I gotta say that I was
only half-heartedly impressed.

Those of you impressed with 3D eye candy should grab the demo...IMO it
easily unseats Prophecy as the best looking space-sim available. The
framerate on a Voodoo2 P133 was quite satisfactory.

I knew going in that this game was a derivative of the Wing Commander
games...No illusions there. It does seem to incorporate a lot of
X-Wing/TIE mission elements- so it seems like a step forward.

However, I have to take exception with the flight engine-which doesn't
seem to be any different from any other WC-inspired space-sim. After
mucking about in I-War for the past three months, I found myself
wanting to lateral thruster slide in Freespace....one of the things
that made Descent 1 & 2 so much fun.

But that feature isn't in Freespace. And its omission makes the game's
flight engine---altogether unremarkable.


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