In 2002, EA Games officially announced Freedom:
The Battle for Liberty Island, which would later be renamed Freedom Fighters,
at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The concept for the game originally
involved a turn-based strategic mode as a major element of gameplay.The game
was developed by IO Interactive,
creators of the Hitman franchise and Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, using the 3D Engine Glacier. This
engine made use of the OpenGL and Direct X graphic APIs and would be used by IO
Interactive until the Glacier 2 engine was developed for Hitman: Abdolution. Freedom Fighters was released by EA Games in the
US on October 1, 2003, a full week after the UK release. An EA spokesperson
stated that retailers in the US had requested the delay. The game is one of the
few developed by IO Interactive that
was not published by Eidos Interactive.
Gameplay:
Singleplayer Freedom Fighters is
third-person shooter, in which the player navigates through the streets of NewYork City with a controllable squad
of teammates while fighting the occupying Soviet forces. The player gains
charisma points by performing various deeds, such as capturing a base or
destroying enemy supplies. The more charisma that is gained, the more
squad-mates the character can recruit, including leaderless guerrillas and
wounded Russian soldiers, up to a maximum of twelve. Freedom Fighters uses a
simple method of controlling recruits in battle. In the game, the player can
command recruits by giving them simple orders such as "follow",
"attack" and "defend", but in most situations, they take
care of themselves. Given the terrain of New York City after the initial
invasion, the Resistance usually stations its soldiers in covered positions
like craters and buildings.
Story:
The Soviet
Union became a world superpower by dropping the first atomic bomb on Berlin,
ending World War II in Europe, then the Soviet Union dropped the Atomic Bomb on
the Japanese City of Sapporo to end World War II altogether, soon relationships
between the US and the Soviet Union fell through, and when the US finally
developed there own Atomic Bomb in 1949, the Cold War had begun. The United
States/UN Involvement in the Korean War caused the USSR to prop up communist
states throughout Europe, Africa, Eastern Asia, Central America, and South
America from 1953 to 2000. In 2001, the USSR launched an invasion of Brazil,
Argentina, Venezuela, the Middle East, and Oceania sparking World War III. The
United States retaliated in 2003 by launching an invasion of Soviet Occupied
Iraq and Syria, as well as making landings in the Iberian Peninsula. By now,
World War III is an active stalemate in France, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Eastern
Asia.
In New York City, plumbing brothers Christopher and Troy Stone travel to meet with their next client, an activist named Isabella Angelina, only to find her apartment abandoned. The Soviet Union launches a surprise invasion of the United States Eastern Seaboard, the Southern United States, and California in retaliation of the US invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Soviet soldiers, led by General Tatarin, seize Troy. Amidst the attack, Chris escapes to the streets, encountering a man named Mr.Jones and resistance member Phil Bagzton. After rescuing Isabella from a police station and Troy from a post office, the group retreats to the sewers and sets up a base of operations as New York is lost.
Months later, Chris, Phil, and Isabella sabotage key Soviet facilities
and reclaim areas within the city, building up a resistance group of New York
citizens and disillusioned Soviet soldiers. Delivering serious damage to the
Soviets, Chris becomes known as the Freedom Phantom within the
Soviet-controlled media, SAFN. Later, Troy is captured by Soviet troops and
tortured for information. Forced into issuing a public statement aimed at the
resistance to cease their actions, he instead urges Chris to continue fighting
for which he is executed by General Tatarin. Mr. Jones suggests assassinating
Tatarin in retaliation and Chris succeeds, only to return to find Isabella
missing and the Resistance base occupied by the Soviet army. The operation was
orchestrated by Mr. Jones who reveals that he is the KGB agent Colonel Bulba,
as he explains this as his source of information. Betrayed, Chris escapes with
Phil and others to a new underground area while SAFN reports on the death of
Tatarin, Colonel Bulba's promotion to General and the end of the resistance in
New York. During the winter, Chris leads the resistance deeper into occupied
New York, culminating with a major raid on SAFN Studios. He uses the station to
send a broadcast encouraging the city and beyond to rise up and end the Soviet
invasion and to liberate Soviet Occupied territory within the United States. A
final assault on Governors Island consisting of massed Resistance forces is
planned. After taking over the island and rescuing Isabella, New York is
liberated for the time being as Chris and the group solemnly celebrate their
victory.
System_requirements
Microsoft Windows 8/7/2020
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CPU: Pentium III or Athlon equivalent.
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CPU SPEED: 733 MHz.
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RAM: 128 MB.
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OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.
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VIDEO CARD: 32MB Direct 3D With Hardware T&L capable Video
Card with DirectX 8.1 compatible driver (NVIDIA GeForce+
/ ATI Radeon+)
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TOTAL VIDEO RAM: 32 MB.
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