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Freedom Force (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- A playthrough of Sunsoft's 1988 light gun shooter for the NES, Freedom Force.
In this video, I played through four loops in order to show each of the ending cutscenes.
6:52 Loop 2 begins
12:18 Loop 3 begins
17:47 Loop 4 begins
"A Frighteningly Real Tale of International Terror!
MISSION: NEUTRALIZE EXTREMIST ELEMENT.
The fate of the airport is in your hands.
Standing in your way are two deadly units of extremist guerillas. Four stunningly lifelike - and deadly - airport scenarios, and a climatic one-on-one duel with the most feared anarchist in the world today.
Your assignment is to terminate the enemy element with extreme prejudice.
You, and you alone, are freedom's last hope!
The Ultimate Zapper® Gun Game!"
So reads the description blazoned across the back of Freedom Force's box. It's not entirely accurate - there are no one-on-one duels and only half the game takes place at an airport - and it's patently absurd, but it captures the broad strokes well enough. Sure gets them juices flowin', don't it?
Released exclusively in North America for the NES and the Nintendo Vs. arcade platform in the spring of 1988, Sunsoft's Freedom Force is an ambitious arcade-style rail shooter that's slathered in 1980s action movie ma-cheese-mo.
It's like Death Wish 4, but it's an 8-bit Zapper game. Or Lethal Enforcers, if Lethal Enforcers had come out five years earlier.
As Rad Rex/Sting (P1) and Manic Jackson (P2), "enforcers [who are] specially trained to deal with critical situations," you're on a mission to hunt and gun down an entire criminal syndicate in an afternoon "neutralize guerillas".
Armed with a .38, a Dirty Harry hand cannon, or a grenade launcher, you take out bad guys as they pop out of cover (while hopefully avoiding the civilians) as the camera pans back and forth across an airport runway, an airport terminal, a nice city street, and a slummy city street.
You can snag extra ammo, health refills, and gun upgrades by shooting at the icons that flash in the bottom right corner of the screen, and between some of the stages you get to play a violence-themed Hangman minigame.
As you'd expect from a late 80's Sunsoft game, Freedom Force is both super difficult and super stylish. You get one life per game and there are no continues, but a full loop of the game only lasts five or six minutes, so having to restart from the beginning each time isn't a big deal.
Especially not when you take the time to appreciate the effort that went into the presentation. The graphics are slick - the sprites are big and well drawn, the characters have loads of animation frames, and that intro sequence is pretty eye-popping, especially for an 80s NES game.
(Though the quality of the graphics is probably the reason that the game is so short. You can only cram so much into 256K!)
Many of the people that worked on Freedom Force later worked on Sunsoft classics like Blaster Master and Batman, and their talent is readily apparent here. They hadn't quite perfected their house style yet, but they were definitely getting there.
Random thought: That plane has an awful lot of doors. If it's a Boeing, I really hope the passengers appreciated the effort the terrorists put into keeping it on the ground. I mean, don't they at least deserve a thank you card and a cheese sampler basket?
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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Some of these late NES games have the best intros. Sunsoft just knew how to take advantage of the hardware.
*"FREEDOM* Force"... on Independence Day.
Well played.
It's either that or Wheel of Fortune -- "America's game"
Freedom Force feels like Lethal Enforcers but made in the 80s. Really impressive stuff for the NES!
Death Wish 4? I suppose you're citing its diversity of settings for gunfights since the second and third films largely inhabit slums and streets, not airports or amusement parks.
I wonder if they could make a role-playing game that uses the NES Zapper as both part of the fighting mechanic and also the interface.
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@@christopherthibeault7502check out Lone Ranger; it might meet some of your criteria.
Anyone else remember cursing to hell everytime you picked up the grenade launcher because it was GUARANTEED that you were going back to the beginning for accidentally killing innocent bystanders?
Each time when I think that I've seen every NES game in existence, I find a new one I've never heard of. And it's not just any developer but Sunsoft! Looks similar to Operation Wolf, which I played a lot back in the day.
That is one aspect of retro games that I love. Even when you think you've seen just about every game in a system's library, there's always at least *_one_* that you discover by complete accident.
Where these kids parents?! Did no one teach little Johnny that skateboarding through a fire fight is not a good idea?!
From Jay Walking to Storming Embassies. No wonder Elite Assassin wants to get on TV news. Sounds like he has quite the story to tell!
Wow that intro. For a NES game, pretty good.
FIrst mission:
"In case of emergency, the exits are here here here here here here here, Anywhere,"
Loved this game! Certainly one of the best Zapper games!
This game's intro looks great for 1988's standard.
THIS IS THE GAME! The one I tried to remember for so damn long that was the NES version of Lethal Enforcers.
NC focusing some trauma against childhood bullies on some of those civilian shots!
Sunsoft killing it again!
I won a copy of this game through a Nintendo Power contest. Loved it.
Never finished this one, but I played it all of the time.
didn't know the nes had a gun game like this
The proposal for the freedom game is very cool My, congratulations on the game, success 😃
Well I suppose they're Professional Terrorists. They have Standards after all. They know those Boeing Jets don't hold up to in air gun fight standards.
@2:23 that's the Blaster Master Boss Battle 2 theme. Neat.
Same composer, so makes sense!
Even Ninja Gaiden's cutscenes weren't as intricate as the opening to this game. I had to check to make sure this wasn't a homebrew.
Underrated Zapper gem! This is one of the games I got with my first NES.
You got a like for the orange man FJB MAGA2024
Anyone else notice that one of the "Code Breakers" tunes is one of the Boss Themes for Blaster Master?
Awesome music! An Epilepsy warning could be preferred. I got nauseous by them flashes..
Believe it or not, the flashes are pretty much needed for Zapper games. If you notice how some spots have white boxes, those are the hitboxes that the Zapper needs to register
I am really disappointed I didn't know about this game until now. It looks like a lot of fun. The only light gun game I had was Duck Hunt.
*Freedom Force* is more like Sunsoft's answer to Taito's *"Operation Wolf"* series.
this kind of reminds me of operation wolf, wow!
Too bad it was WAY too early in video games to add in a co-op element in case you wanted to team up with Carl Weathers-- I mean, Manic Jackson. I mean, Arnold would vouch for him.
Incidentally, I like how they at least try to justify some of the innocent targets - doesn't exactly look like some of those people are stepping into the line of fire by choice... and those that DID, holy shit! Can't believe they went there when you shot the kid!
I'm of the opinion that most light gun 'innocents' leaping up in the middle of a gun fight are trying to get shot for a payoff.
In this game though, skateboard kid had it coming. He looked way too chummy with the terrorists.
@@AgentofLADON You have to wonder. This said, I did totally miss 720-Degrees taking one in the chest; I meant the kid on the street who jumps out with his hand pointed at you and proceeds to take one in the face.
Brutal NES!
Methinks Nintendo of America forgot to censor a certain red liquid. Kinda like how Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode wasn't censored that much, either.
Golgo 13…now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time
this was a cartridge? man, i had no idea this game existed - could’ve really used more nintendo zapper titles growing up! oh well, we’ll always have hogan’s alley
So….the game just loops and has inside commercials for their other games. The 80’s was all about commercialism 😂
Rented this as a kid and was blown away
Zapper games rock. 😮
No time for the ol' in and out, love... ive just come to read the meter.
Never played this game back in the day
Duckhunt will always be the best
Lightgun shooter.
Why would the bound up hostage be presented as the door opens and then rolled back in? It doesnt make any SENSE
One of the greatest zapper games ever made. I remember cheating as a snot nosed little bastard by standing directly in front of the TV. Does anyone know if the game has a true ending or just an endless loop?
It only has 4 end scenes. I showed them all.
@NintendoComplete I must be blind or something, because I didn't notice much of a difference between the end scene aside from the secret words.
Awesome
I've two questions; (1) who wears a bikini in public, and (2) why does "Rad Rex" look like Feyd Rautha in Dune 84?
“I will kill him!”
1. You never been to a big city?
Why did I only have Dunk Hunt.
There's a secret hidden message during the last ending whe it says congratulations you press B on he second controller to show it. I jst did a longplay or this game too and I show it on my video if youwant to see it!
Those terrorists aren't too great at the whole "terror" thing if a bunch of kids are rolling around on skateboards during an attack, I'd say. 😅
Unfortunately I missed out on this game
Got to love airports where you'll see women in bikinis and skateboarders. It must be in California.
Freedom Force is memorable for that Madonna lookalike who appears on the Game Over screen. When I played this game in 1988, she had the pixie cut.
I am surprised there are working NES Zappers out there. I always ruined them by pointing it very close to the screen.
Wonder how bikini chicks passed
Nintendo's censorship?
Well they had samus in a bikini as
Well.😂
Rad Rex... The lovechild of Dirty Harry (In his weaponry choices) and Roy Batty (in his appearance)?
And shan't we forget Random Hajile from Snatcher
@@figment1988 Somehow I already made that connection too, figment.
Why were you headshotting kids left and right in the "elite assassins" stages? 😂
They know they could lose points for
That but don't care.😂
Tough as nails game. It’s really hard to get the power ups.
What was the point of power ups? One shot kills any enemy it looks like
@@user-yy1dx2gb1q They’re blink and you miss it!
I know every NES made and this doesn't exist.This is gotta be a fake video made by a I
😂 The humility!