Freedom Force Review
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- The developer should be admired for creating the environments, supervillains, superheroes, story elements and other facets in this game in such a way to model the feeling of comics from the 60's. This game does succeed where others of this type have failed. The team at Irrational Games emulates gracefully the feeling of reading a comic book, through the voices of the superheroes and villains, the movies that introduce our superheroes, the small RPG system in use and to the special scenes at key points that advance the story. Any comic book fan that is also a gamer and likes a small dose of RPG gaming will feel quite at home with this game. You can be assured that the developer promises expansions as well as sequels to this game that has proven quite successful. I see only two major flaws in an otherwise great game that lessens the gamers overall enjoyment of it. First, I did not like that the locations in scenarios seemed very small, contained and restrictive as I would have hoped that they would have made environments that were larger, involving and more engaging. For example, there are buildings that appear within many locations, and I would have loved to have been able to enter these buildings to explore and battle in. I would also have enjoyed quests that went beyond the restrictive borders of the small playing areas that allowed your party to adventure very deeply in them instead of being taken into new maps and sectors when you had completed a particular primary objective and were given a new one. Secondly, I would have liked the inclusion of a mini-map showing me the layout of the particular area I was in as many times I was simply confused as to where the main primary objective was and I had to fuddle my way through certain areas to find a particular supervillain that I may have been looking for. While the areas that you can fight in are sometimes small, they can often be very maze-like and the player without a mini-map may become frustrated by the layout of a particular area. Beyond this, the many merits of Freedom Force alone warrant your consideration and interest if for nothing else than allowing you to relive the role of a mighty superhero from the "Silver Age" of comics.
