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Privateer 2: The Darkening
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Release Date December 1996


Introduction

Wing Commander Privateer 2 was created in the wake of Wing Commander III as the cinematic video step up for the Privateer subseries. Erin Roberts developed the game with a more modest budget in the UK. The main character, Ser Lev Arris, was played by Clive Owen. He was supported by Christopher Walken, David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow, Mathilda May and John Hurt. The game took place about 120 years after Wing Commander IV in an isolated pocket of space known as the Tri-System. Planet Anhur was been home to humans for some two thousand years, and the locals independently developed faster-than-light drives from the Confederation. The futuristic setting lets players utilize advanced jump gates, short-range time travel devices and massive cargo haulers. In addition to the traditional build-up phase and story portions of the game, Privateer 2 peppers the experience with random cinematic mini plot missions. Certain upgrades are only available once these subplots have been completed, and entire character arcs are explored with recorded video cutscenes separate from the main story.

You regain consciousness, and the unfamiliar faces around you inform you that you've lost your ship in an accident. You're new to this cutthroat world of Tri-System privateers, and now your only order of business is survival. You've got just enough credits to afford a new ship, but it's going to need upgrades if you expect to live for long. The sector is full of people willing to do business, but who can be trusted? Legal or not, it's time to trade, travel and battle your way through a place where high risk means high yield and those with the brass reap the rewards.

Copy

U.K. box, front cover

Original U.K. Release

NAME: Ser Lev Arris

AGE: 30

DIAGNOSIS: Anterior Amnesia

U.K. box, back cover


RECENT HISTORY:
Ser Arris's condition was probably caused by accelerated
depassivity from a long artificial sleep, after being
pulled from the wreckage of a recent Cargo ship disaster at
Mendra spaceport. After a satisfactory physical recovery,
the subject was kidnapped in a violent attack on the
hospital resulting in a number of fatalities. The subject
seems to have escaped his kidnappers, and is now in
possession of a spaceship, trading and fighting his way
across the galaxy, seemingly in search of his lost
identity.

Deluxe Edition (U.S.)

Inner flap

U.S. box (Deluxe Edition), left inner flap
U.S. box (Deluxe Edition), right inner flap

THE ULTIMATE SPACE COMBAT TRADING EXPERIENCE


You regain consciousness, and the unfamiliar
faces around you inform you that you've lost
your ship in an accident. You're new to the
cutthroat world of Tri-System privateers, and
now your only order of business is survival.
You've got just enough credits to afford a new
ship, but it's going to need upgrades if you
expect to live long. The sector is full of
people willing to do business, but who can be
trusted? Legal or not, it's time to trade, travel,
and battle your way through a place where
high risk means high yield and those with the
brass reap the rewards.

Back cover

U.S. box, back cover

A new FACE...
A new PLACE...
A new STORY...

Strap in tight and jump into
the ultimate space combat
trading experience!


In Privateer 2, there are no rules.
You can fly over 100
different missions in
18 different ships.
Check out whatever you
want ― unique planets,
space stations, bars,
prison pits and more.


But without money, you're nothing.
Ship upgrades,
loadouts, repairs,
wingmen, information
― everything here
costs money. You'll
have to hunt, trade,
and fight to get it.


Only the fastest and most savvy survive.
Incredible new space
combat engine enables
hi-speed battles between
bands of pirates, greedy
police, desperate
privateers and you.

Development

Documentation

Press

Credits

see Privateer 2 credits

Companies

People

Planets

Ships

Civilian

Player fighters

Light

P2straith-vdu.gif
P2aurora-vdu.gif
P2velacia-vdu.gif
P2drakkar-vdu.gif
P2duress-vdu.gif
Straith
Aurora
Velacia
Drakkar
Duress

Medium

P2shaman-vdu.gif
P2jendevi-vdu.gif
P2skecis-vdu.gif
P2skecismkii-vdu.gif
P2kalrechi-vdu.gif
P2heretic-vdu.gif
Shaman
Jendevi
Skecis
Skecis Mk II
Kalrechi
Heretic

Heavy

P2karnenan-vdu.gif
P2icarus-vdu.gif
P2freij-vdu.gif
P2freijmkii-vdu.gif
P2danrik-vdu.gif
P2faldari-vdu.gif
P2faldarimkii-vdu.gif
Karnenan
Icarus
Freij
Freij Mk II
Danrik
Faldari
Faldari Mk II

Military

P2destroyercis-vdu.gif
P2prototypecis-vdu.gif
P2carriercis-vdu.gif
P2dreadnoughtcis-vdu.gif
Destroyer
Prototype
Carrier
Dreadnought

Fighters

P2lightcis-vdu.gif
P2mediumcis-vdu.gif
P2heavycis-vdu.gif
P2extraheavycis-vdu.gif
ML1b
ML2b
ML3b
ML4x

Jincilla

Fighters

P2skull-vdu.gif
P2veldor-vdu.gif
P2tacon-vdu.gif
Skull
Veldor
Tacon

Kiowan

Fighters

P2vector-vdu.gif
P2leighat-vdu.gif
P2krell-vdu.gif
Vector
Leighat
Krell

Chirichan

Fighters

P2demon-vdu.gif
P2heron-vdu.gif
P2testmos-vdu.gif
Demon
Heron
Testmos

Papagod

Fighters

P2tembler-vdu.gif
P2ecantona-vdu.gif
P2ashearer-vdu.gif
Tembler
Ecantona
Ashearer