
Because of its unmistakable uniqueness I think this even beats the CnC collective. Darwinia - Geek-factor 11Įven more recent than Freelancer, Darwinia is one of the coolest real time strategy games I’ve ever played. Enjoy… Then come back tomorrow and read the rest of this list. It’s just an awesome game that you have to play once in your life… Chances are if you’re like me, your first sitting will last about 20 hours. Different ships allow you to do different things but that’s not to say a whacking great freighter can’t fight… I certainly have in my time. You can upgrade your ship and even buy a new one so that gives you a good few hours of playing around. There are multiple factions and your actions change your alliances. You can pick up jobs in the form of collection bounties, smuggling goods, pirating or just doing honest trade.

The idea behind Freelancer is you’re a captain of a little ship and you can jet around the universe doing as you like. The graphics aren’t yet faded so you won’t be squinting at pixels wondering what it is and the controls are mostly obvious.

The difference is that Freelancer has a much stronger main plot-line but as a downside the side-missions are a lot more linear. It wouldn’t be going too far to say that Freelancer is just Oblivion in space without most of the silly creatures.

It’s a massively single offline RPG and by that right instantly in the same category as Oblivion. Freelancer - Addiction 3įreelancer is one of the finest games to leave Microsoft Game Studios. I usually opt not to play them on this basis and just remember them fondly but there are some exceptions and here are my choices for older (but not ancient) games that you may have missed at the time which really deserve a play… Albeit at least once. While I really love playing an older game, it pains me to see the games that gave me so much enjoyment in such dire condition. Mark from Nutter’s Mark has just posted up his " Top 5 PC-Games You Probably Didn’t Play".

I’ve got a few more that I think deserve your attention. Mark from Nutter’s Mark has just posted up his "Top 5 PC-Games You Probably Didn’t Play". The blog of Oli Warner Home About Archives Contact Old games you really should play
