To enhance the story, StarLancer includes over 25 minutes of Hollywood-quality full-motion computer-generated cinematics, over unique pilot animations and 36 custom-composed original music scores. Rather than the standard environment in current space combat games with space being fairly empty beyond the enemy fighters, the universe in StarLancer feels alive and will be more interesting for players to participate in. Neutral craft can be seen going about their business by performing functions such as unloading freighters or escorting convoys.
Whether players are engaged in a dogfight with swarming enemies or escorting a torpedo run on a massive capital ship, the StarLancer 3-D engine provides unparalleled fluidity in gameplay with balanced, consistent frame rates. Players will be able to navigate key parts of their capital ship with immersive 3-D walkabout environments.
Can they turn the tide? Instead of fighters that dart and dance in zero gravity and perform absurdly acrobatic maneuvers, Starlancer is meant to provoke a sense of WWII fighter combat. Not only does the game do this, but it does it well. Ships bob and weave with a realistic sense of inertia and momentum, and bearing down on an opponent with guns blazing rewards you with a satisfying rat-a-tat-tat!
Special accessories and a wide variety of weapon and shielding options make the keyboard configuration more than a little confusing. Also, although the controls are well detailed, some aspects will still leave you scratching your head. It still took a lot of trial and error to figure out how to use the rear firing laser turret common to many fighters and how to launch torpedoes from a stolen Kamov Bomber during one of the final missions. Starlancer does a good job of maintaining atmosphere throughout the entire game via creative use of between-mission animations.
Each time you step up to the doorway to exit your bunk area, you get treated with a small animation of your character walking through the ship and passing by the other inhabitants. The amount of variety and detail exhibited by the characters in this scene can be entertaining in and of itself. Digital Anvil has a unique and innovative sense of design.
The capitol ships in Starlancer, while not easily identifiable by class, look absolutely fantastic. Continuing this sense of design are the fighter types, of which there are approximately fifteen to choose from. Each fighter has a sleek, intriguing look that sets it apart from its brethren, but which has obvious origins in present day fighter aircraft.
Certain effects are somewhat unrealistic for the deep of space, like capitol ships that appear well lit from any angle. However, they are still well done and are just subtle enough to make you believe that there is actually a bit of lens flare glaring off of your cockpit window. In fact, the only thing that can be said to be graphically poor about the game is the lack of stellar phenomenon and traditional space hazards.
Starlancer serves up high quality audio on two platters. The first, the soundtrack, is masterfully orchestrated, evoking a strong emotion at the appropriate times but remaining withdrawn enough not to be too annoying.
Second are the audio tracks for ingame dialogue and sound effects. Each and every speaking role in the game has enough different responses to keep you from being bored by their familiar, monotonous drone and the variety of sound effects keeps you from being bored by the gunfire sounds.
Starlancer does an amazing job of painting the world around you, but does very little to actually insert you in it as a character. Flight briefings and cinematic news reports are all well and good, but occasionally you need to see your character get out of the cockpit and talk to someone.
Starlancer is a top-notch space flight sim with amazing gameplay and stunning graphic design. Played this one and its succesor Freelancer basically till my fingers bled back than. Just wanted to be the first person to make it known this game is still wanted in Need to see the men and women of the Coalition ensuring that Tim Curry will always be able to escape to the one place untouched by capitalism Great Story and awesome game play make this one of the best of the space flight sims not to get a remake.
Much ignored by many, yet one of the better space sims released around this period many of my fellow gamers have heard of Freelancer, but never Starlancer. This one NEEDS to appear in my GoG library in a patched to windows 10 format and allow me to go back 20 years to fly those Russian bombers complete with ugly clanking noises as bits fell off as you flew around :D.
I've tried everything since, but nothing ever got as good as this. Would love if you could work out a deal with Microsoft. Probably the best Space sim I ever player in the last 20 years. Microsoft probably still owns the licence i think.
Would love to see this and freelancer remastered but just seeing these classic games on Gog and playable under win 10 would be enough got me. I'd SO love to play Starlancer! Please release a version of it that runs on Win It may even have the same graphics as the original version.
One of the best space fighter games, with a decent story and plenty of action. Would love to have this. Yes please to StarLancer. Classic CR space sim. Not quite the Wing Commander franchise, but it's great. I'd love to add this to my library, the co-op was pretty fun. When it worked Pls, can you just give us some answer?? I will also preoder CP :. I just bought a physical copy and trying to get it to work on Win I grew up playing this game, I would definitely pay to play it again on win10!
I must confess to checking in here every few years with just a dim hope that this game might get re-released. One of the best Space Sims from back in the day, come on GoG! Make it so! There is nearly no price you could ask that i wouldnt pay to get this working on modern systems, i have the CD's and a ISO even, both install, but it simply wont run, if it does run, you cannot start to play, you get to your room, and thats it.
Some of the best space sim games and really well told war stories. Save the space combat sims. Please make a complete Chris Roberts space combat legacy collection. Some of the best gaming ever. This game was a jam, absolutely blew me away as a child. I have the game running fine in Win10 and fullscreen, however there are issues with trying to use a game controller. The joystick part works fine, but the buttons don't work, or give different results from what the on screen input configuration menu show.
I did find a reference in the included doc file that says there might be problems with multiple USB devices connected. I use a lap top so I have USB mouse, gamepad, external drive and external sound card. Anyone else seen this issue or found a solution. Ra7eN 0 point. For those bothered by the missing cut scenes and other misc issues, do not download the "ripped" version. It is as the name implies thats why the file is so small. Non essential parts of the game have been removed.
Get the ISO version. Any solutions I have already tried using compatibility mode. Komandant Krompyr 1 point. Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run Starlancer Windows , read the abandonware guide first! We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available. Also, we try to upload manuals and extra documentation when possible.
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