Freedom Force

by MacPlay

Product Features

• Start out with a comic-book style origin story that introduces you to Freedom Force, the superhero team you'll control
• Use your group's super-powers to make your way in a fully interactive 3D New York -- you can rip out streetlights, throw cars and demolish buildings
• Zoom in & out, control camera angles, and battle thugs and aliens
• Earn prestige points by saving people, but be careful you don't lose them by causing damage -- the more prestige points you have the better your reputation is
• Unlock other secret origins and secrets of Freedom Force

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000070MQ8
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 1, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,029 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #49 in Video Games > Mac Games > Adventure
  • #55 in Video Games > Mac Games > Strategy
  • #76 in Video Games > Mac Games > Action
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac | Edition: Standard

Amazon.com Review

Freedom Force is a real-time-strategy role-playing game that lets you guide several heroes through a series of linear missions. The game takes place in the '60s and looks, sounds, and acts like a vintage Stan Lee/Jack Kirby collaboration. Because Irrational Games didn't secure a big-name license (such as Marvel or DC), the game uses original characters, but they've cleverly packed in a character generator, and the Net is rife with fan sites offering, gratis, just about any hero you can think of: the Hulk, Spidey, Batman, and even Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons! You can use your own heroes in multiplayer mode or in the game itself by buying them with your Prestige Points (more on this below).

Starting off as star-spangled spreader of justice Minute Man, you'll begin your quest to thwart the powers of evil. Along the way you'll meet the alien Mentor, the fiery Latino El Diablo, the melancholy Man-Bot, a speedster named Bullet, and many more. Characters have statistics like any RPG and they gain experience as a team. Those on a mission gain the full value, and those back at Freedom Base gain only a fraction. When they "level up" you can buy new powers for them. Saving lives and solving missions gives you Prestige Points, which is a measure of how the citizens feel about your team. PP's let you buy new characters in the game.

The camera system is fluid and intuitive. You can spin around the heroes, zoom in and out, and even set the camera to follow them cinematically. The interface is also simple to use. Click on the character portrait, choose an attack, and click on the bad guy. Things get hectic in battle but you can pause the action with the space bar. You can also choose a slow-motion option, making it much easier to keep up with the action. The graphics are bright and vibrant and the audio is fantastic.

Freedom Force is a great tactical-strategy game on top of being a terrific tribute to the heroes of the comics' vaunted Silver Age. This is a game that's so good, you might want to buy two and keep one safe in a Mylar plastic bag. 'Nuff said. --Bob Andrews

Pros:

• Pays loving tribute to the subject matter
• The game behind the tribute is likewise worthy

Cons:

• The missions are too linear to be replayable

Product Description

Freedom Force puts you into your favorite comic-book adventures as you lead a of team of superheroes in their missions across New York City! Exciting multiplayer games that takes you into the superhero thrills you loved as a kid!

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I CAN'T STOP PLAYING THIS GAME!!!!, March 3, 2004

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Brian C. Wyatt "nibirian2" (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freedom Force (Mac) (CD-ROM)

This game is insanely great (just like the macintosh!)! This real-time strategy game (aka RTS) plays very well and micromanagement is a real pleasure and not a chore.

The only problem I encountered while playing FF was whenever Timemaster showed up, and then the game would get real laggy and froze. This was remedied when I switched from playing at 1440x900 screen resolution to something less demanding of the processors, currently set at 1024x 640. This remedied the choppy Timemaster appearances, and I was able to play the game all the way to the end.

Which is something to be noted: Freedom Force is one of those rare games in which I felt compelled to play until the end, and without using cheats too!

Freedom Force is a real gem of a game and with any luck MacPlay and Irrational will see to a mac OS X release of the upcoming sequel Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich!!!

Easily the best superhero game ever released. If you're into real-time strategy and/or the Silver Age of comix this is indeed a must-have.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch RPG from MacPlay, June 29, 2004

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D. L Winski (Whiting, ME USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freedom Force (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Have you ever heard anything bad anout Freedom force? I doubt it. And for good reason this game is almost completely flawless. You get great gameplay, slick, detailed graphics, tons of hero abilities, varied levels, you can make your own characters, giving them all the abilities (including edited ones) that you could ever want, you can literally rip the citys apart and either bust, swing, throw, or explode almost everything you find, and you get at least several weeks worth of total bliss while playing away at this game.
Probably my only minor quibble was that some of the the characters lines were so lame and repetitive that you could hardly even use the excuse "It's all just a parody" (which the developers claimed it wasn't) but as I said it was only minor so just let it roll.
If you have $35 and want a game, regardless of whether your new to gaming, dislike RPGs, or have only the bare system requirements (it's practically worth upgrading just to play this game) its a crime not to purchase Freedom Force.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bad glich, February 10, 2010

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Helex Toman - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Freedom Force (Mac) (CD-ROM)

when playing the fourth level the game gliches freezes and the computer does not do anything the game won't hide or shrink and it frezes right before you can finsh the level so your stuck and you have to turn it off by the power button. the game is fun but it's like a trial.

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