MERSCOM Space Interceptor: Project Freedom ( Windows )

I loved this game when it first came out butthrough various equipment changes I lost it. WHen I saw it on Amazon I jumped at it to play again! To my dismay it won't work on my Windows 7 machine. However, I have an older XP box that I was going to use just for older games such as this and I will put on there to fly and shoot again! The delivery time was fantastic! Kudos to the seller!

I love space sims and combat flight-sims, so I was jazzed when I heard about a new game in development called Project Freedom (Space Interceptor in the US). The trailer looked exciting so I couldn't wait to get my hands on it.The first thing that raised a red flag was the price: $20. Usually when a new game is priced that low it's an indicator of its quality (normally a new game will sell for $40 - $50), but I still held out hope.The second red flag were the recommended hardware requirements: 1600 Athlon XP or P4, 256 RAM and 64 mb video RAM. Low for a 3D game now days, indicating less than spectacular graphics.Installation went flawlessly. The third red flag was the animated splash screen: a freighter-type ship crusing towards a planet. The background with the planet looked flat, like the background scene painted for a low-budget sci-fi movie. The ship looked two dimensional -- there was no depth.The plot follows the typical space-shooter genre. The good guys are under attack and it's your job to blast away the enemies. But the mission objectives are incidental since there's little variety in the levels. Escort a convoy: blast away enemy ships, defend your fleet: blast away enemy ships -- you get the idea.The ship's controls are easy and intuitive. I used a Side-winder joystick -- speed was controlled by the slider, or your can use a mouse. The physics are good, but the ship auto-levels itself in space! Once you stop turning your ship will level itself with other crafts giving you an unrealistic feel of what's supposed to be a free-flying 3D space environment.Weapons consist of the requisite lasers, guided missles and punishing proton missles. The targeting is interesting -- a rotating redicule that has a narrow auto-aim, but I found its jerkiness hindered locking onto an enemy craft. Weapons sounds and you ship's acceleration are good, but that's where the audio quality stops.The sound track appears to be a short techno segment that's looped continually no matter what you're doing, but even worse is the dialog, which sounds like a poor translation from a foreign language. The characters continually repeat the same lines over and over, like "Good kill!" "We've got a new ace here" and "Right between the eye." That's not a typo, they use "eye" in singular! This quickly becomes annoying and I found myself breathing a sigh of relief during the dialog-free single-fighter missions.The flat background is found throughout the game and doesn't give the feel of being in expansive 3D space and most of the enemy crafts looked cartoonish. There were some high points, like blasting asteroids to dust as you fly through a field of them and explosions are nice, though to completely destroy an enemy battleship you have to take out each segment individually that gave me the feel of blasting legos. The HUD is pretty, but two-thirds of it is useless as the animations have nothing to do with what's actually going on.Space Interceptor provides a mildly fun five-hours of gaming that you probably won't play again, but for $20 you won't be out much.

you site back and you much antecipate something that you finaly just found,,.im runing windows 7 and dont come acros eny space games for the system.,so when i saw this game had no operating system requirment' i thougt i finaly found something.tha box ses a totaly difrent story however.it explains the graphix minemum as xp,98..not windows 7.if youd like to play space games and your trying to keep up with modern times is my gess that youl have to find out whos the leader.

After Freelancer bored me to death with too much role playing and not enough space action I gave up on the space gene and conversed back to FPS and RTS titles but when I recieved my monthly trick to PC gamer I saw they gave this game an adverage rating of (65%) to be exact so I downloaded the demo and man was I impressed! True, it is a little simple with no real thinking involved but the gameplay more than makes up for this!The graphics are the best I've seen in a space game of any kind taking real time data from our solor system and implying it to the game. Jupiter looks real instead of a fake cartoony planet. Astroids tumble around you and give an awesome feel and look and the visual effects of the explosions are top notch, even with the latest graphic eye poppers out now like Doom-3 and Half Life-2, it's right up there graphicly with them!If you just want to sit back and shoot space aliens flying around in space ships with the look and feel of really being there visual apeal, then this is the game for you! If you want a little more role playing depth, look elsewhere. Overall, very impressed to say the least, a better than expected space shooter!!!!