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Freedom Force Center has written a hands-on preview of Freedom Force, the tactical action RPG by Irrational Games. This is a detailed one, with lots of info, and to our knowledge the best writeup on this game so far. Take this as an example:
Freedom Force is set during the days of post-world war II America. The cold war is raging in earnest, the world celebrates and grieves the coming of the Nuclear Age, and the race to land on the moon is overshadowed only by strange and unexplainable happenings in the fair borough of Patriot City where a puzzling power, known to some as Energy X, is turning mild mannered citizens into stupendous superheroes and evil villains. Thus the game begins with a bang, and we are introduced to the first of our avatars -- the Marvellous Minuteman -- for the tutorial.
The game is easily controlled using a well designed and easy to learn mouse/keyboard configuration that is intuitive enough as to be unobtrusive. A click of the mouse and your character moves, another click and they will attack a target with their default action (which can be changed easily). With a punch of the right mouse button, you are presented with a list of attacks that you can perform, provided you have enough energy to carry them out. You move about the game world like any of a number of RTS games on the market nowadays. Move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen, the screen will scroll up, point to the bottom, it will scroll down, and holding a modifier allows you to zoom in or out and also to rotate your perspective. The camera can be centred on any member of your party and will move along with the character as its central focus. The camera isn't glued there, however, and you are free to view the whole city while leaving your team to twiddle their thumbs or deal with some pesky thugs, whichever you deem appropriate. |
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