I can answer your second question - it's a pure space blaster, with some excellent fights between big cruisers you get caught up in, and some very atmospheric (no pun intended) nebula combat.
Yes it's pure blasting, but it's a good one at that. Well maybe you don't have ONLY fighting, you also have objectives (scanning cargo, protecting some flagship, finding drifting flagships in a electro-magnetic nebula, etc.)
It's not like "your mission: nuke the hell outta them"
I'd suppose it's like Descent but in 3D, but I never played Descent so I can't tell. (Freespace is called Descent: Freespace fyi)
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It's also rather short, though.
Well maybe you don't have ONLY fighting, you also have objectives (scanning cargo, protecting some flagship, finding drifting flagships in a electro-magnetic nebula, etc.)
It's not like "your mission: nuke the hell outta them"
I'd suppose it's like Descent but in 3D, but I never played Descent so I can't tell. (Freespace is called Descent: Freespace fyi)