A true classic, FreeSpace 2 bred several open-source modifications, but the even the original, unmodded game is still fun to play if you don’t mind the dated graphics. Even great game franchises fall ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Sci-fi flight sim games are deader than a doornail, at least on the PC. Although there are still blips on the proverbial radar, such as X2: The Threat ...

Welcome to the first edition of an entirely new article series simply titled Forgotten Gems. As the name implies, this series will focus on genuinely great games that for one reason or another have ...

I will go out on a limb and say I think Freespace is the best space sim series ever created (fight me, Wing Commander). Originally released in 1998, it blended frantic action with ship customization ...

Just saw this myself, and I thought a few people might be interested in giving it a whirl. Freespace 2 is a space action simulation type game (description sounds suspiciously close to the old Escape ...

Freespace was the world’s last great space combat series, a genre you may not even be aware of if you’re under the age of 20. Yet it’s still quite active today; the amazing Battlestar Galactica mod ...

Freespace 2 is in a nutshell, a Freespace 1 with all its faults fixed. If you don’t like flight sims, you wont like Freespace. But, if you’ve ever enjoyed X-wing, Ace Combat, Wing Commander, or ...

Freespace 2 continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the Shivans. The year is 2367, thirty two ...

So having opted to go with Freespace 2 for my next LAN outage as the surprise game of the weekend, I went and found it in a bargain bin at a local EB (for $9.99 no less, but it was just the jewel case ...