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Developer's Description By Imre Kovacs. Do you work as a freelancer? Are you a private tutor, a doctor or a journalist working for different companies? Then this app may be of great help to you. With the help of Freelancer, you can keep track of the number of hours you have worked and of course the money that is due to you.
You can enter the hours and hourly rates every day and you can see how your money grows. You can see the amount of the current month on the live tile and the weekly amount on the back of the tile, so you will always know how much it is.
You can check if your employers calculate your money correctly or not. Graphics and visual effects of Freelancer PC Game are really amazing and interface is really eye catching. We can see some of the best space crafts, characters and their way of movements. A player will really enjoy all these scenes and especially the sound track that has been introduced in the game. If you are fond of these type combat simulation game then you may like game Airline Tycoon 2.
Download it free from our site. Following are the main features of Freelancer PC Game that you will be able to experience after the first install on your Operating System. It is full and complete game.
Just download and start playing it. We managed to catch up with program manager Jorg Neumann for a hands-on demonstration of the latest code. The basic principle of using the mouse in combat is that wherever you can click, you can shoot.
The true beauty of Freelancer, though, is its ability to appeal to fans of both freeform and linear story-driven space combat sims.
A massive ever-evolving universe, rammed to bursting point with pirates, traders, police and numerous factions provide all the exploration opportunities you could wish for, and plenty of chances of loot credits and cargo in order to upgrade your ship. It was quite clear that action is never far away even if you simply decide to set course for the nearest star in search of adventure.
In fact in terms of an overall package, there were few other titles which impressed us more, so just keep your fingers crossed that Digital Anvil can actually stick to this, the latest in a line of 4, scheduled release dates.
Freelancer, eh? Ooh, it's like someone took a snapshot of my working life and made it into a computer game. Assuming, obviously, that you replaced the filthy, commuter-stuffed tube trips into London with hurtling through hypnotically beautiful wormholes in space. Replaced sprinkling instant coffee into my eyeballs in a forlorn attempt to stay awake all night to write a two-page preview of some godforsaken Tycoon game from Belgium with dogfighting a dozen angry pirate ships in the middle of an asteroid field, swooping in and out of the rocks with the cool demeanour of Han Solo, dispatching foes with the panache of a master pilot.
Replaced being stuck in a dingy pub with a sweaty marketing bore twatting on about how the shading routines in his firm's latest tediumfest are the most excitingdevelopment in vertex technology for ttre past three months, with standing in a hi-tech bar on board an interstellar battlecruiser stationed on the edge of the solar system, negotiating thousand-dollar deals with grateful mega-corporations to explore uncharted regions of space.
And instead of a tepid pint of lager to divert me, there's a sexy intergalactic police women with tits the size of Sputnik to flirt with, and instead of nothing but bar nuts and a clapped-out fruity to spend my money on, there are missiles, lasers and mines to buy and fit to my sleek, ultra-cool fighter ship. Apart from all that, identical. I'll forgive you for being a touch surprised by all this.
Freelancer is one of those titles often referred to by folk in the know as 'vapourware'. Duke Nukem Forever is a good example of the term. Been in development for years, unlikely ever to see the light of day, likely to be a steaming pile of Moyles if it ever does. Freelancer was first whorishly paraded around sniffing journalists some five years ago by the man behind the legendary Wing Commander series, Chris Roberts. He'd taken his story-dnven, space-based shooter and thrown it screaming into an Elite -style free-form world.
It was going to be the best thing we'd ever seen. It was going to put his newly formed development company Digital Anvil on the map. Unfortunately, someone must have been holding the map upside down, as it then all went quiet and nothing more was heard about the project for several years. Along the way we got a sort of interim thing called Starlancer - effectively Wing Commander all over again. Not bad, but not what we were waiting for.
Then Digital Anvil seemed to implode, Chris Roberts went to Hollywood to turn Wing Commander into the really awful film it was always trying to be, Microsoft stepped in, threw a load of cash about and told the remaining team to carry on regardless. Then there was silence again. Now, suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, Freelancer beta code drops on the desk along with a note saying 'ready in March'.
And in the tradition of all good vapourware it's going to be utter shi Oh, hang on, maybe not. Sequel to Starlancer, 4 this time telling the story of the defeated enemy of that game, the Coalition, years after they blasted off into distant, unknown space to start a new life. Quite stunning piece of FMV actually. Must be hiding something. But that's just it you see.
Although everyone's expecting Freelancer to be crap, from what I've played, the truth is it's going to be nearer the Classic' mark. The known universe is split into about five sectors, each controlled by one set of the fleeing Coalition colonists. Essentially, they break down as American, British. Japanese, German and Maybe Welsh then? Of course these factions are not called America or Japan. Each name has a 'futuristic' twist. Britain is called Bretonia, for instance, and has systems called New London.
Dublin and. What Freelancer does really well is create a believable background universe for you to explore. The beauty is that they all have dynamic relationships with each other that mean you have to take a bit of care when choosing what jobs to do and for whom.
Your reputation is almost as important as your ability behind the joystick. But what do you do? Well as the name and my rambling opening paragraph suggests, you're a budding intergalactic odd-job man, fresh from surviving a terrorist attack on a space station that exploded along with all your belongings and the remnants of a million-dollar deal you were lining up. Luckily, you make it to the Liberty American home planet and are offered a one-off job by the local police force who also give you a clapped-out old banger of a ship.
The idea is that you plunge into this dynamic universe as you see fit. There's a lot of freedom on offer. Plenty of goods are available to trade as part of a complete though slightly confusing economic system. The bars on the planets and space stations are full of characters offering commissions. Freelancer really comes alive in the detail.
The universe around you is constantly on the move, there's always stuff happening - you can believe in it. Radio chatter between traffic controllers and passing cargo ships fills your cockpit while you wait for docking clearance. You can contact other ships and ask about their business. Or scan their craft and decide if it's worth a risk going for a bit of looting and pillaging. Get into a fight with pirates along a trade route and you might find yourself supported by passing bounty hunters looking for a score.
Destroy an enemy, salvage one of his weapons and you can take it back to base, patch it up and have it fitted to your own ship. There's plenty of incentive to keep going. A veritable Pandora's Box of weapons and ships are on offer - although not a great deal in the way of noncombat hardware, which is a shame.
Some of the larger, more expensive ships are quite a sight to behold, and each sector has its own visual style and lists of hardware to choose from, again making the need to watch your reputation with different people an important aspect in the way you approach whole game.
Talking of visuals, Freelancer is quite the technological piece of work. Not so much photo-realism as CGI-cartoon style - at least in the cut-scenes. It's not so clear-cut in the actual space sections, but compared to the visually distinctive style seen in games such as X: Beyond the Frontier , it's very much driven by what the current 3D card technology can do rather than trying for a visual style all of its own.
None the worse for it, mind you. It still looks like a million spacebucks. Just technologically generic spacebucks. All in all then, it's looking like Freelancer will pretty much be everything it was promising to be all along minus the massively multiplayer thing, which in retrospect was probably a bad idea anyway. The action thrills of Winy Commander, the freedom of Elite, the mercenary nature of Privateer and the story quality of, well, a half-decent piece of pulp sci-fi writing at any rate.
Ah, but hang on. A tall German chap has just strolled in the office carrying a preview copy of X2: The Threat - a more hardcore space epic, but one that may come even closer to fullfilling hopes for a spiritual successor to Elite. So there's more than one pretender to this galactic throne, after all. But more about that another time. For now, all we need to know is that Freelancer is going to grab the attention of many. Not through hype, not through extensive marketing or over-excitable press coverage - it'll do it simply by being a damned fine game.
Sometimes the wait really is worth it. After surviving the destruction of the space station Freeport 7, pilot-for-hire Trent finds himself kicking around the New York system without a ship or a purpose.
Our nifty playable demo, which picks up at this point, lets you guide Trent through the ensuing events, which are in fact the opening stages of Freelancer's single player campaign.
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