Let’s Play Freespace! 
When I got a new desktop computer in I guess it was late middle school or early high school, this game came with it. This computer really was all mine for the first time as my older brother had just left for college. I remember when we got the computer home, I put this game on which was included in the freeware and my dad and I marveled at how good video games looked then in the opening cut scene compared to the old school Sierra games we had played years before.
Let’s Play Freespace:
I really love this game. I had moved away from computer games in the mid to late 90’s so I didn’t have any expectations and this game blew me away with its attention to detail in its story telling, voice acting, gameplay, everything. It’s one of those games which makes you feel the drama of the moment, like you’re really in that cockpit and experiencing everything with it all on the line. It’s a similar feeling that I get when I’m playing a game like Punch Out!, minus the cockpit bit.
What I love about these games, meaning this and the sequel, is how fricking dire the situation gets in each game. Every time we think we’re making progress and taking the lead in the Great War, the Shivans slap us down. Every time we think we’ve hit the bottom and it’s about as bleak as it can possibly be for our race, the Shivans show us there are far deeper basements we never knew existed.
It stands the test of time, as well, which I can attest to from playing it a couple of decades after it came out and it was just as engaging as it was the first time I sat down with it, playing my small role just in trying to shoot down as many Shivan fighters was humanly (or terranly) possible. Hell yes. This would make a great movie; the dialogue is already there but yes suffice to say that I’d pay my $10+ to see it.