Hi there, I recently did some research on the sequel to Freelancer (because its an awsome game and up to this day there is no game that is able to compete with it) and I found some stuff I didn't know before (maybe some of you do know but I'll post it here anyway):


Microsoft planned to release Freelancer 2 aka "Project Lonestar" on the Xbox360 only (so no PC version) but due to unknown reasons (some claim that they didn't think it would sell well) they cancelled the development.

However they made it up to a beta version (and some users even said that it was available somewhere) so I'm wondering if someone knows anything about this (or even better: who has it )?


I seriously would love to get my hands on it (even though I have no xbox360, but I'm sure there is a way to make it run)

here's a link to an article about it: http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/04/free ... cancelled/

Wow I never heard of that.
Freelancer is one of mine all time favorites especially with all the mods out there.

But honestly I think it would be just a shadow of the original Freelancer due the hardware limitations of the XB360.

I hope there will be a real Freelancer 2 some time.

Maybe for the next Xbox?

Imo Freelancer is the best space shooter available, its just plain awesome (although its already over 8 years old!).

All other space shooters that have been made up to this date are just like "meh" to me. Either the controls of these games are completely messed up (X3) or the whole game experience doesnt fit together.
back at 2008 when Freelancer 2 was officially canceled, the Xbox360 had a decent hardware compared to PC systems (nowadays its rather low) but compared to the hardware possibilitys of 2003 it was really high end so Freeleancer 2 would have looked better for sure.

Also as good as Freelancer is, after countless hours of playing the whole envionment is kind of repetitive So something new would defintiely be nice.

Sadly there is no way there will be such a game. The developers of Freelancer are no more together so some other game company would be in charge of it. And I doubt they would manage to create the same feeling that Freelancer had. Besides Microsoft doesnt care about the game at all so we have to wait for some other publisher to make a "Freelancer 2 like game".

About the beta: I'm not even sure it exists. There are many users who claim that there is/was one but there are also some who say that the game didnt even make it to a beta/alpha and that it got cancelled during the design phase.

Anyway I doubt there is one person who has something Freelancer 2 related, if there still is something it sure rots on some of Microsofts/the developers servers

I don't mean it would look bad on a 360.
But more casual style not so open like the original one.

Is MS not holding the right on the Freelancer IP? If yes another Dev Team could make it.

dont know about that but as I said, if it comes from another developer than the original game then its most likely that the whole game experience will be completely different compared to Freelancer.

Also I bet that if Microsoft would develop such a game, it would definitely try to make it for Xbox too which is nowadays really not a good idea (because of the hardware).