Freelancer (2003) (VG)

Directors:

Harry A. Jarvis III
Carole Ruggier

Writers:

Adam Foshko (writer)
Jorg Neumann (writer)
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Release Date:

4 March 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The Universe of Possibility.

Plot:

You play a freelance pilot who makes a living as a mercenary who gets targeted in a conspiracy for alien artifacts. |

Plot Keywords:

Dyson's Sphere | Artifact | Conspiracy | Space Battle | Video Game

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Ian Ziering	...	Edison Trent (voice)
Jennifer Hale	...	Commander Jun'ko Zane ('Juni') (voice)
John Rhys-Davies	...	Richard Winston Tobias, Esq. ('Tobias') (voice)
Michael T. Weiss	...	Orillion (voice)
George Takei	...	Lord Hakkera (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fred Ballard	...	(voice)
Hazel Beasley	...	(voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	(voice) (as Jeff Glenn Bennett)
Xander Berkeley	...	Dexter Hovis (voice)
Susan Blakeslee	...	(voice)
Corey Burton	...	(voice)
Katherine Catmull	...	(voice)
Travis Dean	...	(voice)
Mitch Diaz	...	Various (voice)
Greg Dorchak	...	(voice)
Adam Dudley	...	(voice)
Kathryn Feller	...	Various (voice)
John Finan	...	(voice)
Michael Foster	...	(voice)
Brian Gaston	...	(voice)
Eric Henshaw	...	(voice)
James Horan	...	(voice)
John Horan	...	(voice)
Tony Jay	...	(voice)
John Kassir	...	Various Voices (voice)
Maurice LaMarche	...	(voice) (as Maurice Lamarche)
Christopher Lee	...	(voice)
Marie Marshall	...	(voice)
Kenneth Mars	...	(voice)
Marc Menchaca	...	(voice)
Phil Morris	...	(voice)
Bernadette Nason	...	(voice)
Robert Newell	...	(voice)
Marco Noyola	...	(voice)
Phillip Owen	...	(voice)
Benjamin Pascoe	...	(voice) (as Ben Pascoe)
Rob Paulsen	...	(voice)
Garry Peters	...	(voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson	...	(voice) (as Kevin M. Richardson)
Jessica Robertson	...	Various (voice)
Stephen Sanders	...	(voice)
J.C. Shakespeare	...	(voice)
Charles Shaughnessy	...	Dr. Quintaine (voice) (as Charles Schaunessy)
Cree Summer	...	Dr. Kendra Sinclair (voice)
Katherine Willis	...	(voice)
Ryun Yu	...	(voice)

Directed by
Harry A. Jarvis III		(in-game cinematics) (as Harry Jarvis)
Carole Ruggier		(voice over director)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Adam Foshko		writer
Jorg Neumann		writer
Chris Todd		writer

Produced by
Ray Cobo	....	associate producer
Phil Wattenbarger	....	producer

Original Music by
James Hannigan

Cinematography by
Adam N. Joseph

Production Design by
Jorg Neumann

Art Direction by
Bruce Lemons

Art Department
Frank Bonniwell	....	technical animation director
John P. Funk	....	art lead
Jorg Neumann	....	lead designer

Sound Department
Bryan Bowen	....	sound re-recording mixer
Bryan Bowen	....	supervising sound editor
Martin Galway	....	sound director
Eric Lewis	....	assistant dialogue recording engineer
Mark Packard	....	sound designer
Michael A. Reagan	....	sound editor

Visual Effects by
Eric Lalumiere	....	lead animator

Animation Department
William Mings	....	animator: motion capture

Music Department
Dean Grinsfelder	....	composer: additional music
Tim Kelly	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Paul Bleisch	....	programmer
Tony Bratton	....	lead programmer
Taylor Brown	....	programmer
Peter Carter	....	programmer
Paul Isaac	....	lead programmer
Yuichi Ito	....	programmer
Mark Kness	....	programmer
Ed Maurer	....	lead programmer
Stephen Nichols	....	programmer
Aaron Otstott	....	system programming
Brandon Rowlett	....	programmer
Andrew Sega	....	programmer
Gary Scott Smith	....	programmer
Mike Stembera	....	programmer
Scott Stevens	....	programmer
Brad Thrift	....	programmer
Simon Travis	....	programmer
Joel Willard	....	programmer
Dustin Yeilding	....	technical supporter

Production Companies

• Digital Anvil

Distributors

• Microsoft

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Digital Anvil

Trivia:

In the opening video, the narrator makes mention of five sleeper ships: Liberty, Bretonia, Rheinland, Kusari, and Hispania. Going into the Outcast-controlled system Omicron Alpha, you can find the wreckage of the fifth sleeper ship.

Quotes:

Marcus Walker: Goodbye, Jun'ko. Win this one for me!

Movie Connections:

Follows StarLancer (2000) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Rheinland - Cityscape: Hamburg

Addictive game!

This game is very addictive, I kept playing it for hours straight until late at night but also the fact that you can't save a game when you are in space contributed to this, at times I just HAD to play on in order not to loose any game data.

So yes, "Freelancer" is addictive but also quite flawed. Also for instance, something that extremely bothered me was that you couldn't skip any of the cut scene's with as a result that at times you had to watch the same few minute cut scene time after time. A great opportunity for me to multitask to check my e-mail or have a chat with my friends and more things like that, while I had to wait for the cut scene to be over.

The story starts of promising but the further you get the more ridiculous it all gets. Also the game also ends quite abrupt, at least it did so for me. It is quite obvious that they are hinting at a upcoming sequel. I don't know if a sequel is in the works at the moment but I am sure that most likely I will pick one up once it will be released.

The gameplay is very easy! Even for those who are not familiar with flight games. To put it boldly, every fool can play this game. Yes, some levels are quite hard and require lots of effort. It took me about 1-2 weeks for me to finish this game which might be a bit too short. But thank God for the multi-player option! It allows you to keep playing short missions, just like the single player game once you have completed it by the way.

Even though lot's of mission are the same, it just simply stays cool to be in the middle of the at times massive dogfights.

The graphics are good but just not anything revolutionary or anything.

Addictive game but beware of its flaws.

7/10