I have fond memories of playing this like 15 years ago. Has anyone played it recently? Does it hold up? Thinking of trying it again...

Edit - I am asking about freelancer specifically because it will run on my cruddy laptop. Have no gaming console / gaming pc at the moment and am going a little loco.

Yes it does, I have gone back to that game a few times and loved it every time. Would love to see an iOS port of it actually.

OK cool maybe I'll give it a shot. Been itching for some video game ass video gaming and just thought of freelancer today.

http://adoxa.altervista.org/freelancer/index.html

Make sure to grab something like "Jason's Freelancer Patch" in order to play the game in widescreen and in more modern resolutions :-)

@slasktotten: thanks for the heads up! Have also been looking at crossfire 2.0 but I think that's for after the main campaign

Freelancer is always fantastic, I only wish it was available on gog or something

Is there any way to make it work with a HOTAS? I have a Thrustmaster HOTAS X and would love to replay it with it if possible.

I used to absolutely LOVE Freelancer back in the day. They should really re-make that game. Going around the systems, jumping through gates while carrying hot cargo, felt great, as did the arcadey combat.

@splodge: to add onto this, theres a dedicated community that developed a fantastic mod, i wish for the life of me i could remember the name of it but they added an insane amount of features as well as graphical updates, a superb game really.

Edit - freelancer discovery is the mod, do check it out.

It's probably better then most space sims out these days.