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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26061 in Video Games
• Brand: MacPlay
• Model: 340
• Released on: 2002-11-01
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Mac
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .75 pounds

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

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

• The missions are too linear to be replayable

GameSpot Review
New York City circa 1962--the zenith of the atomic age, the height of the cold war. Man was taking his first tentative steps into the void of space. With every rocket launch, with every successful space mission, one question grew more and more important in the minds of all mankind: Are we alone? A dreadful answer was on its way.

Evil incarnate in the form of Lord Dominion lurks just beyond another dimension, intent on absolute supremacy of the entire universe. In a diabolical plot to have Earth destroy itself, Lord Dominion schemes to unleash the awesome might of his Energy X on an unsuspecting populace.

But never fear, PC players can form, train, and lead Freedom Force, a team of 14 original comic book heroes capable of standing toe-to-toe against Lord Dominion and his dastardly villains. Set in the Silver Age of comics, the game features both an intense 3-D tactical battle engine and a rich RPG system.

Freedom Force consists of a series of tactical missions. Each time a new mission is initiated, players decide which hero will be sent to do battle and who will be in his or her squad. Once a squad arrives at the scene of the mission, the game switches to the tactical combat mode that allows the player to direct his or her individual characters to deal with the situation. In between these missions, the player enters management mode where heroes can be trained and new characters can be recruited by spending and distributing character points.

A fully featured RPG skill system rewards strategic heroes by allowing players to juggle stats, pump up powers, recruit new heroes, and develop existing heroes based on experience accumulated in tactical missions. All characters have powers, which can evolve and be honed during the game. The features and style make this a perfect diversion for a would-be Professor X.

Customer Reviews

I CAN'T STOP PLAYING THIS GAME!!!!
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.

Top notch RPG from MacPlay
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.

Freedom Force RULES
THe game is like a comic book as a computer. All throuhgout the game your main character Minuteman encounters diffucult tasks. The graphics are pretty good for an RPG and the story is funny and interesting. I give it five stars. Multiplayer is great.
All together its awsome. You should buy it.