Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos reviews

Very successful Space adventure. Despite my Age, it is still a bringer for me personally. Graphically made very beautiful by then conditions and Game Physics is very realistic, which sometimes causes problems for untrained Pilots when Flying. In Space you can't apply Brakes, so you have to fly full Force back to brake and need to speed up for just as long as for that. But Once you stop the spin out, everything goes as it should. A very big Problem with this Game is the control ... Either Joystick and keyboard or just Keyboard. It is not played with the Mouse and there is no Guidance on the Control that you have to find out or post-google yourself. The Control is also really extremely complex due to the realism and occupies almost the entire Keyboard. For that, the freedom in the Game as well as the Story is just incredibly well implemented and I have rarely seen a Game with such potential. Conclusion: The Controls break a lot about the Game, but for People who like to strain their Heads and read in, it is perfect and they will get their Money's worth. An incredibly good space pirate adventure in which you rob fat Cargo ships, watch Battles with the Police and other Pirates and Robbers, and upgrade and tuned Ships, as well as Trade in Contraband to get better Weapons and equipment. Not the best Game, but a Collector's Item and me personally it's fun:) Total Score 07/10 Points

Another old school space sim... First I-war was a must play in his time.. (with the freespace series..) the second part was as good as the first one and implement a great following to the first story. The Game is old but ok in itself.. Videos are running correctly, game runs correctly. I still have the first one on Big PC Box (Limited edition) and i'm pretty sure that you could rebind keys in the first one... In this game there are no rebindable keys... So that's just makes the game unplayable to me... maybe with a Joystick made for space sims (the game was intended to be played with it at the time) but i don't have one. So i cannot recommend the game in this state. Great game, runs fine, but no rebindable keys is a pain in the♥♥♥♥♥for this type of game.. So if basics controls in game suits you and if you can play this way, i recommend a try, because the game in itself is good. But if you are like me and can't cope with it.. i'd recommend to try another game. Try to take a look here, there is all you need to play first and second opus of the game : (https://www.i-war2.com/downloads/download/34-goodies/260-i-war-2-keyboard-reference-card) There's some guy who tried to make up for this and propose some modification to the game to counterbalance that problem (a flight config file for mouse via a little patch to do) : https://steamcommunity.com/app/359630/discussions/0/135511379837892363/ But in my opinion, players should not have to do such manipulations to have a fully working game they paid for. Try GOG's version, it seems that the patch for controls is integrated in the game, so you can play easily. I don't know why steam didn't kept it (or add it) in this version though.. So that will be a thumb down for me..