Due to similarities in its UI elements and portrayal of nebula, as seen in these videos, it is widely regarded to be a sequel to Freelancer. Digital Anvil was working on a game codenamed "Project Lonestar" for an Xbox 360 release.Anyone who owns a copy of the Bonus DVD, bundled with the game's soundtrack CD, will have full knowledge of what the original storyline was meant to be. In addition to the stuff that was promised, which were eventually taken out, such as dynamic economies and retracting ship fins, much of Freelancer's original storyline was scrapped when Microsoft tried to speed up the game's release. However, the resulting game was still good enough to be enjoyable. Saved from Development Hell: Freelancer was released 4 years after being announced for the first time, with many of the hyped-up features missing.Keep Circulating the Tapes: The game is not currently being sold on Steam, Good Old Games, Microsoft's own online store, or any other digital storefront.The character designs in the finished game, particularly Trent, have his signature gritty style. Also applies to the designers: one of the people who did character designs is Carlos Ezquerra, one of the co-creators of Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog.Ian Ziering as Trent, Jennifer Hale as Juni, John Rhys-Davies as Tobias, not to mention appearances from Cree Summer, George Takei, Xander Berkeley, Maurice LaMarche, Corey Burton, Jeff Bennett, Charles Shaughnessy, Tony Jay (who literally has exactly one line) and Christopher Lee, who also has a bit part at best. While it fell far short of the final product Roberts envisioned, the suits decided a good game that was finished was preferable to a perfect one that wasn't, and the result was still a critical success. Microsoft's acquisition of the project and Roberts' move to a consulting role was what allowed the game to finally be released. As Freelancer was Chris Robert's first attempt at making a fully dynamic sandbox space simulator (his second being Star Citizen), the planned feature list was quite extensive and the main reason the game spent so many years as Vaporware.Among other things, the original opening trailer was also significantly altered, removing the scene in which the Nomads blow up Sol some time after the Alliance's Colony Ships warped to Sirius.
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