Anne McCaffrey's Freedom: First Resistance

by Ubisoft

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004ZBQC
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: December 15, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,015 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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A hostile alien force has invaded Earth and forced everyone into captivity. As Angel Sanchez, you must guide a group of rebels against the Catteni aliens. This third-person action-adventure game is stealth based and allows players to control Angel and two other team members. They can be controlled as a group, or characters can be placed in strategic locations, depending on the mission. Players explore the environment and gain clues through object-based puzzle solving with cascading events. Dynamic lighting aids in stealth as players can retreat into the shadows then step into action at the right time. Seven hundred motion-capture moves help provide smooth actions.

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Anne McCaffrey's Freedom: First Resistance

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just Finihsed - Pretty Good Game, January 18, 2001

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"jhkues" (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anne McCaffrey's Freedom: First Resistance (CD-ROM)

Freedom First Resistance.

I just finished the game. I must say that when I first started playing the game, I never thought I would finish it. It seemed really boring without any action. Once you complete the first few levels though, the fun really starts. Just don't give up on the game right away.

I bought the game not knowing what to expect. The game is probably about 65 percent solving puzzles and 35 percent action.

Most of the puzzles are not that difficult although a few of them were real hard. If you are playing the game just remember that some characters need to perform some actions. The game never mentioned this, and it caused me to get stuck for a couple of days until I figured that out.

The graphics I thought were very well done. The frame rate was a little slow at times but never unplayable.

Pros: The fighting is fun, and the puzzles are solvable but challenging. The storyline is good, and a major part of the game is interacting with other characters to figure out what is going on. Once you get some good weapons, you can really cause major damage to the bad guys. No blood or anything. Everyone dies real nicely.

Cons: Sometimes other team members get stuck behind walls or desk. There are lots of places where all the characters will get jammed up and you have to switch between the characters alot to get out of those places. One time one of the characters just stuck and could not move out of the where she was. Had to restore to a saved game. At times the character you are fighting with refuses to fire a weapon or waits 10 seconds to do it. I could find no pattern to this, it just happens (save often)

Overall I really enjoyed the game after hating it at first. It gets a little tedious in parts, but overall I would say if you like RPG's with some action in them, then this is the game for you.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Keeps getting better!!, January 2, 2001

By 

Carter Mayer (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anne McCaffrey's Freedom: First Resistance (CD-ROM)

Everytime I play the game I get a little more hooked! It's entertaining, difficult enough to make you think, but not so hard that you practically have to have a PhD in "Gaming" (that turns me off to a lot of games). The graphics are decent, but there are some new things about this game that I've not seen in other games, such as the manuverability of the character and that you can save your game at any point without having to make it to some "checkpoint" first. Overall, I enjoy playing the game, and I look forward to the next game to come out from Anne's Dragonrider's of Pern series!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly exciting and addicting game, December 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Anne McCaffrey's Freedom: First Resistance (CD-ROM)

I can only conclude that the person who gave this game one-star never played it. My teenage son thinks it is, "deadly," and I have to agree. I've played Red Storm's Rainbow Six series of games and this one is easily on a par with them. In fact, I think Freedom: First Resistance is more challenging. I like the way the designers have taken the game in a different direction than Anne McCaffrey's trilogy, while making enough connections to make it clear that its part of the same cloth. I sure hope there are sequels to this game. I eagerly await them.