Privateer 2: The Darkening, Deluxe Edition

by Origin

Product Features

• For Windows 95 / 98
• Deluxe Edition
• Includes Color Poster
• Includes Embroidered Squadron Patch

Product Details

• ASIN: B000FPB61W
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,515 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

You are Ser Lev Arris in this - "sequel" - to the original Privateer. Go on a search to regain your identity and memory in this interactive movie/space combat game. Along the way, you can trade commodities, go on missions, attack strange mutants, rescue damsels in distress, meet wierd characters, and visit unusual planets. You can hire wingmen and cargo ships, upgrade your ship or buy new ones, and watch lots of live-action movies. Stars Clive Owen, John Hurt, Jurgen Prochnow (of Das Boot and the Wing Commander movie), David Warner, Amanda Pays, Mathilda May, David McCallum, Brian Blessed, and Christopher Walken as Hassan. Privateer 2 Win95 Deluxe edition contains updated game code which enables the game to run natively in Windows 95. In addition to that, the box also contains a poster and the embroidered squadron patch

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This game plays on xp!!, November 16, 2006

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David Daniels (Shevlin, Minnesota United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Privateer 2: The Darkening, Deluxe Edition (CD-ROM)

Talk about a gem ... Ive been playing this game almost solid for two weeks..
I'm giving it only a 4 overall cause its old and the video clips are kind of dated but this game rocks..you fly around buying and selling cargo and dodging these creeps trying to space you. the physics of the space combat are great and you dont have to have a joy stick.. easy to fly with a mouse! great ship upgrades and tons of ships to choose from.. of course you start out with only 13000 space units to spend so you need to earn some cash delivering cargo bounty hunting or picking up spaced cargo.. look for missions on the bulletin board at any space port.. you can hire freighters as well and wingmen if you like..Ohh!, and you get to find out who you really are... Lev Aris. You will need dosbox(google dosbox) to play this one and there are instructions for mounting the game on dosbox at Wing Commander CIC(google it). If you like space flyers you will kick yourself for passing this one up!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the amazing games, July 29, 2007

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J. Nicholas Herndon "Otter" (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Privateer 2: The Darkening, Deluxe Edition (CD-ROM)

Alright, First thing is this game is\was a DOS game. Be that as it may this game was also 4 or 5 years ahead of its market. it uses the Wing Commander engine for space physics but in a much more open ended way. like wing commander series (its predcesor) you fly missions and prgress the plot in this pseudo-space opera. However unlike Wing commander you are not stuck in an almost completely linear game. take missions discover who oyu really are or blast the military to slag, what ever you want to do is up to you. Also origin spared no costs on it budget hireing big name actors suck as Christopher Walkens (sp) for live action movie cutscenes, and while the quality is low the technology for computer in the mid 90's was also relitivly unimpressive. This game is definatly worth the time and with high replay value will keep you playing time and time again (im playing for the roughly 50th)