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Please read the following awards given to this game. Thresh's Firing Squad Editor's Choice. Gamespy Award of Excellence 92. Gamepower Best of 99 Sim Games. 1999 Intelligamer Intelligent Choice.

PC Player's Best Space Combat Game of 1999 CGW's 2000 Premier Award Winner GameSpot's Sci-Fi Simulation of the Year GameSpy's Sim Game of the Year FiringSquad's Best Action Game of 1999 Computer Games' Sci-Fi Simulation of the Year PC Player's All Time Top 100 Games GameSpot's Greatest Games of All Time

It was also nominated for the Third Annual Interactive Achievement Awards 2000.

GameSpy 92 / 100 GameSpot9.4 / 10 IGN8.9 / 10 GamePro5 / 5 The Electric Playground8.5 / 10 Computer and Video Games8.5 / 10 FiringSquad90% Eurogamer7 / 10

Every review has had high praise for FreeSpace 2's graphics. From the ships to the backgrounds, the reviewers were pleased with the details Volition had paid attention to, such as the thematic differences in the ship designs between the races, the textures and clarity of the backdrops, and even the realism of the explosions, though FiringSquad pointed out explosions from torpedo strikes were lower in quality. The nebulae feature was also praised for its rendered atmosphere, which reviewers desc…

GameSpot felt FreeSpace's story was "both deeper and darker" than either the Wing Commander and X-Wing series, establishing invincible foes who never lost their stature despite the player learning plausible ways of defeating them. I think the above statement is the Most Important Attraction about this game. FiringSquad, however, said it created a "very believable military atmosphere," which helped to show how things revolve around big events, instead of just around a single person. FiringSquad …

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FreeSpace 2's key attraction is its dogfights. CNN.com said the close-ranged dogfights make for engrossing, and exciting skirmishes.

Sharky Extreme praised FreeSpace 2 for having the enormous capital ships, as this burst the "trapped in a bubble" trend in Wing Commander- and X-Wing- type games.