Freedom Force sequel: Meh.

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I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
asstastic interface, and not much payoff.

Pass.

Jonah Falcon

 

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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
<jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:

>I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
>asstastic interface, and not much payoff.

Did you like the first one? And how does this one compare to it?


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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
<jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:

>I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
>asstastic interface, and not much payoff.
>

It's a game designed to reach out to a known fan base. It isn't the best
choice, but it works well enough in this case.

Of course, the plot looks a little disjointed - Freedom Force I starts off
in a post WWII era with the lead character who worked on a nuclear bomb.
FFII implies that we've just entered WWII. (Although this is based only on
the title of the second - it might suprisingly fit well in the storyline.)

 

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"Alex" <a@b.c> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
> <jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
>>asstastic interface, and not much payoff.
>
> Did you like the first one? And how does this one compare to it?

No, and it's exactly the same.

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"Raymond Martineau" <bk039@ncf.ca> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
> <jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
>>asstastic interface, and not much payoff.
>>
>
> It's a game designed to reach out to a known fan base. It isn't the best
> choice, but it works well enough in this case.
>
> Of course, the plot looks a little disjointed - Freedom Force I starts off
> in a post WWII era with the lead character who worked on a nuclear bomb.
> FFII implies that we've just entered WWII. (Although this is based only
> on
> the title of the second - it might suprisingly fit well in the storyline.)

It's an alternate timeline in which the Nazis won -- Our Heroes have to
change the past to fix it.

Jonah Falcon

 

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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:21:15 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
<jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:

>
>"Alex" <a@b.c> wrote in message
>news:6n8f219p42h3930vrfkq2ld77igh3ler1s@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
>> <jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
>>>asstastic interface, and not much payoff.
>>
>> Did you like the first one? And how does this one compare to it?
>
>No, and it's exactly the same.

You hated a game and then you bought the sequel?

 

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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:00:47 GMT, rgorman@telusplanet.net (David
Johnston) wrote:

>On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:21:15 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
><jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Alex" <a@b.c> wrote in message
>>news:6n8f219p42h3930vrfkq2ld77igh3ler1s@4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
>>> <jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
>>>>asstastic interface, and not much payoff.
>>>
>>> Did you like the first one? And how does this one compare to it?
>>
>>No, and it's exactly the same.
>
>You hated a game and then you bought the sequel?

That's all I needed to know - I'm going to like this one because I
really liked the first one.


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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:58:25 -0500, bk039@ncf.ca (Raymond Martineau)
wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
><jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't know why people love this game. It's so poorly designed with an
>>asstastic interface, and not much payoff.
>>
>
>It's a game designed to reach out to a known fan base. It isn't the best
>choice, but it works well enough in this case.
>
>Of course, the plot looks a little disjointed - Freedom Force I starts off
>in a post WWII era with the lead character who worked on a nuclear bomb.
>FFII implies that we've just entered WWII. (Although this is based only on
>the title of the second - it might suprisingly fit well in the storyline.)

In FFII you travel back in time and get to meet the non-super powered
heros of World War II