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Simply incredible!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: April 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who ever played the Wing Commander games or any other space sim will enjoy this title for sure. Made by Warthog (the same company that made Privateer 2), and Digital Anvil (wich has a large number of Wing Commander vetrans) StarLancer will please even the most demanding gamers. I was lucky enough to get a beta copy of StarLancer, and I enjoyed playing through every mission in this game. The story is great, presented through CGI cutscenes, cockpit chatter, briefings/debriefings and news reports available between each mission. As a member of the newly formed 45th Volounters squadron you will have to prove yourself to the Western Alliance fleet. The Alliance is made up of Japan, Itally, France, Germany, Spain, USA, and UK. You're going to fight against the Eastern Coalition which is made up of China, Russia, and various Middle East countries. If you complete your mission objectives you'll get promoted and receive new ships and weapons, but be careful. If you screw up in some missions it's all over. The game begins with a Pearl Harbor-like attack on the Alliance, and the French and Italian fleets are nearly completly wiped out. The main point of the game is to defend the remaining Alliance fleets while they try to regroup. The game is set 160 years in the future, and takes place entirely in out own system.

The minimum requirements are prety low, especialy when compared to recent space sims like Freespace 2, but it looks better than any other space sim out there.

High Expectations

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: March 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a must have for anyone who has followed the tremendous works of the Roberts brothers. Keeping in line with they're always popular Wing Commander and Privateer series' they bring to the table a much awaited space flight sim. They are returning to the original cockpit style of the original Wing Commander, yet with the visibility and view screen of Privateer 2. This game is sure to be a huge hit with previous owners of their previous projects. Check out their company at www.digitalanvil.com

I'm gonna Have To Call This Game The Champion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I can't really describe this game, but oh it's good, it's really good so here i go... It has the same interface as the old Wing Commander games...but siginficantly improved though..and this game is from "THE" Chris Roberts, as you know (if you are a space combat lover) Chris Roberts is the best in the business.....i did like Wing Commander.....and Tachyon was Cool (though not especially fun) but this tops it all the graphics are the best in every game i've seen and actually I didn't know it was possible to make this kind of graphics. the sound is extremely great and man it's million times faster than Wing Commander/Tachyon.....or just any other Space Combat game....it's of course harder (because it's faster) but not that much plus you can choose the difficulty levels...and i DO really recommend this to ALL people that like Cool GRAPHICS, Like to HAVE FUN....and those who like GREAT GAMES....cause this one is IT even the Lucas Arts masters could never make this kind of a game unless they'd EMPLOY CHRIS ROBERTS...oh sorry but i can't stop .....this IS THE ULTIMATE SPACE COMBAT SIMULATOR THE INTERFACE IS SUPER THE SOUND IS SUPER......IT'S REALLY FUN IT'S NOT TO HARD...but it still gives you a little resistance...this is THE BEST GAME EVER even better than: Tachyon (though i didn't like it), Wing Commander IV, Monkey Island, Imperium Galactica, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament or any other good game AVALIBLE....i just hope their will be StarLancer 2,3,4,5.....and i would hope i could make one or be a part of the developement team.

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my review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very realistic game with great graphics! In other reviews, people have said that you can't carry very many missiles. Well, that's true. But what they failed to mention is that you mostly use your guns instead of missiles. You never run out of ammo for your guns. This is because it is very hard to get a missile lock, so you won't run out of the small amount of missiles that you can carry.
In the missions so far,(I'm up to mission five), a lot of them involve escorting ships. When you fly next to a capital ship you feel very small - those kind of ships are huge!
Overall this is a great game with great graphics. I only had a little bit of trouble controlling the game with my joystick, but all you should have to do to fix this is unplug any other controllers that you have. Definetly a great buy.

Loved it, still love it, still playing it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I fell in love with this game when it first came out years ago. And there aren't, or weren't, many Microsoft games I could easily say that about. Yeah... it's not the greatest space combat sim ever, but it's well worth the play and I have enjoyed it over and over again.

If you don't know much about the game, think Space: Above and Beyond. If you didn't watch that TV show from the mid-90's it's finally out on DVD so think about picking it up to watch it and you'll understand the allure of Starlancer to someone like myself.

I'm not a multiplayer kind of guy so I never used the multiplayer function. I preferred single player missions only.

I think the various fighters you get to pilot provide an excellent variety along with the plethora of different types of guns and missiles you can arm your fighter with. The only thing I would have loved was the option to trade out your fixed guns for different types of guns. That would have made an excellent game absolutely superb!

What more is there to say? If you are a fan of realistic space combat sims, then this game probably isn't for you. If you liked Space: Above and Beyond, you'll probably like this game too.

More alive than FS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

FS2 seems to be the one to compare it against. The graphics are better than FS2, the system requirements are less demanding than FS2. I played FS2, but never feeled part of the story. In Starlancer you feel more part of it. The ships are nice, dogfighting is cool. I am amazed at how good the graphics is, I only have a 333 with 64megs of ram, and I get no jumpiness (word?) like I got with FS2. It is also difficult on hard level. In summary, if you enjoyed Wingcommander and played FS1/FS2 and do not demand the right to modify the interface then GO FOR IT. The plot: Well, it may be Cold War, but it is cool. Time to fight that Cold War.

Graphics and realistic views

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've checked the reviews. I've ran the program and I like what I see, and I know this would be a great follow through for those who liked Desent Freespace,

This Game Kicks Some Serious ... !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: June 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks! It has the BEST graphics I have ever seen! It has 25 missions too, with A LOT of ships to battle with. You can even battle online vs. other people!!

Big Trouble For Moose and Squirrel

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: April 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I, too, was one of the ones lucky enough to be chosen for the Beta test of this game. While the hype surrounding this game is immense, it is not underserved. The graphics engine and immersion factors on this game meet and excede what anyone could hope for. This game is truly spectacular, visually- far exceeding what one has come to expect from Microsoft's publishing arm.

Ther's one problem, and a big one, at that.

The designers of this game are lauded for their past work on all the Wing Commander sagas...scads of praise. And they are equally condemned for that atrocious ... movie ... that was served up as the "Wing Commander Movie." What I don't understand is why the reviews of Starlancer so far haven't touched on how downright horrible the acting and writing is all those pretty CGI movies. Russians as bad guys? C'mon folks. Could you have come up with a more dog-eared set of villains? And the utterly hopeless set of "motivations" for the cartoonish villains is almost as bad as the wretched Boris and Natasha accents.

We've played all those Wing Commander titles for a pure sense of escapism coupled with Space Opera plotlines. They always satisfied on some level. The Roberts' make a damn good action-sim, but should we be forced sit through their stifled movie careers, again? I want those 88 minutes of my life that I spent watching the WC movie back. And the dreadful writing aspects that mar Starlancer bring back the bad taste in my mouth from the movie. Sigh...it's not even campy. Just bad.

If you can get past the lame-duck backstory, the actual game is a stellar example of what can be done in this action genre. If the writing had been even average, Starlancer would have merited 5 stars (it's that beautiful).

Starlancer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first played Starlancer, I was VERY impressed. The graphics may be it's best feature, other than the fun missions. What I like about it is that you don't play the same kind of mission over and over again., they are pretty much different. Some aspects may be the same, but the setting always makes it different.

The gameplay is great! Downing your fist enemy will be historic to you, as you fly by you will see the debris (and mabye the pilot) of the fantastoc explotions. The missions are nice and long, so the game will last. If only there was an in-game save feature. The story ties the game together well with in-mission events. The sound is great too. Except for the constant "ARGGHHH!" and "NOOO" of the downed Russian fighters, everything is great.

The ships are cool, and I love how you can land during a mission. Multiplayer is the funnest I've played yet, and the game will run fine on a 56k modem. And if your stick on a mission, log on and find some guys to help you beat it-hence-co-operative gameplay. Deathmatch is better, though.

Starlancer is great, and for the guy who said Russians as bad guys were bad, the designers wanted a change from furry lions and wanted a more close to home conflict. BUY THIS GAME!

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