The missions are well thought out and feel realistic with some interesting twists that will turn routine missions into a fierce battle for survival. Naturally Freespace 2 won’t win any modern beauty competitions but on other areas the game shines brightly. I was initially a bit sceptical but Freespace 2 was positively surprising to me, regardless of its age.
I never really got to play Freespace 2 before buying the game after Liam’s recommendation, so I didn’t have any nostalgia for the game. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. Now I know buying a “Windows game” is a big sin, but for playing it on an open source engine from a site that supports Linux is fine in my books. I recently bugged Samsai enough to buy it on GOG.com. You do need a copy of the game data linked below. Alternatively you can use the Freespace 2 installer located here. The name of the launcher is “wxLauncher”.
#Freespace 2 graphics mods install#
You can actually install the launcher directly from the repository in Ubuntu if you search for “Freespace 2” in the USC, it’s likely to be found in other distributions too. In 2002 the game was officially open sourced by Volition, this then spawned the FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project and my love was found again. I remember playing Freespace 2 as a teen and simply falling in love with it, the mix of intense space combat mixed in with cutscenes, interesting missions and now being open source and still developed is fantastic. It’s a real blast from the past, and a game that has stood the test of time surprisingly well. Freespace 2 is a space combat simulator game from way back in 1999, it may be old, but it has an official open source engine and you should really give it a run.
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