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| Platform | MS-DOS Windows 95 (Deluxe Edition) |
| Engine | BRender |
| Release Date | December 9, 1996 January 1997 (U.S.) November 4, 1997 (Deluxe Edition) |
| Format | CD-ROM |
| Language | English French German Spanish |
| Rating | ESRB: M |
Description
Privateer 2: The Darkening is a computer game released on December 9, 1996. It is a direct sequel to Wing Commander: Privateer. Developed in the period following the success of Wing Commander III, Privateer 2: The Darkening was conceived as a cinematic evolution of the Privateer gameplay model. Privateer 2 was developed in the UK by Erin Roberts and his team at EA Manchester with its full-motion video cutscenes filmed on sets built at the legendary Pinewood studios. The game puts you, the player in the shoes of Ser Lev Arris, a mysterious figure in search of his past, and lets you play the game your way. Boasting an all-star cast, the game stars Clive Owen as Ser Arris, supported by Christopher Walken, David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow, Mathilda May, and John Hurt, among others.
Set in 2790, The Darkening takes place in a remote corner of the Wing Commander universe known as the Tri-System. Planet Anhur has been home to humans for some two thousand years, with the locals having 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.
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Original U.K. Release
- NAME: Ser Lev Arris
- AGE: 30
- DIAGNOSIS: Anterior Amnesia
- 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.
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Deluxe Edition (U.S.)
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
- 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.
Korean Edition
Characters & Cast
- Lev Arris - Clive Owen
- Joe Kane - John Hurt
- Xavier Shondi - Jürgen Prochnow
- Rhinehart - David Warner
- Assassin #3 - Amanda Pays
- Melissa Banks - Mathilda May
- Canera Captain - David McCallum
- Uncle Kashumai - Brian Blessed
- David Hassan - Christopher Walken
- Alberto Fossa - John Rowe
- Angus Santana - Jonathan Chesterman
- Auntie Maria Gabriel - Mary Tamm
- Assassin #1 - Ade Sapara
- Assassin #2 - Faz Singhateh
- Assassin #4 - Su Lin Looi
- Bernice Barlow - Nadia Cameron-Blakey
- Bill Maddox - Bob Goody
- Blessed Bidder #1 - Jeremy Zimmermann
- Blessed Bidder #2 - Martin Hubner
- Canera Helmsman - Don Warrington
- Dimitri Avignoni - Kevork Malikyan
- Dr. Janna Frevel - Hetty Baynes
- Dr. Yvan Loomis - Douglas Fielding
- Errendi 'Fark' Farquharson - John Vernon
- Hal Taffin - Steven Crossley
- Holographic Lady - Stasha French
- Hospital Receptionist - Lynn Thompson
- Hugo Carmichael - Nicholas Hutchison
- Hugo's Assailant - Stephen Jenn
- Jan Mitorr - John Boswall
- Kronos - Derek Lea
- Lord Mike Vonx - Eric Carte
- Louisa Phillips - Liana Bridges
- Man #1 - Kronos's Ship - Nizwar Kirant
- Man #2 - Kronos's Ship - Thomas Craig
- Galactic Gormet Concierge - Stephen Bent
- Nelson Ramirez - Nadim Sawalha
- Newsreader - Daphne Cheung
- Prison Police Officer - Bruce Byron
- Ralph McCloud - John H. Francis
- Reggie Bray - Tim Pearce
- Second Officer - Canera - Nichola Cordey
- Temessa Ames - Nadia Sawalha
- Shernikov Receptionist - Nicola Jeffries
- Ship's Computer - Dani Behr
- Female Space Communications - Jessica Martin
- Male Space Communications - Keith Wickham
- Canera Communications Officer - Riky Ash
- Nurse Pemtur Douglas - Nick Gillard
Screenshots
Box Contents
Here's something a lot of people don't know: different versions of Privateer 2 featured readically different manuals! It's strange but true - the original UK release came with a "Crius Hospital Rehabilitation Guide" and an in-universe "Guide to Space Travel"... while the American version came with a single booklet, "Your Guide to the Universe".
UK Edition
US Edition
Deluxe Edition (US)
This Box Contains:
- (3) CDs (your game).
- Windows 95 Installation Guide (16 pp.) which is what you are reading now and which includes Installation and Troubleshooting information.
- Pilot's Manual (32 pp.) that introduces the cockpit and describes how to fly, navigate and fight.
- Your Guide to the Universe (48 pp.) that explains loading and saving the game, and how the CNN booth system and your PAD work.
- Reference Card (4 pp.) that lists all keyboard, mouse and joystick commands in the game.
- Registration Card — we'd love to know who you are!
- EA Catalog
- Chirichan Pirate Clan Patch
Korean Edition
System Requirements
Deluxe Edition
| Windows 95 | The Deluxe Edition of Privateer 2: The Darkening is native to Windows 95 and requires Windows 95 to install and play the game. |
| Computer | Privateer 2: The Darkening requires at least a Pentium™ 75MHz or 100% compatible processor. A processor that is equal to or faster than a Pentium™ 90MHz processor is recommended.
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| Memory | A minimum of 16MB of RAM installed in your computer is required to play this game. |
| Video Card | A 1MB (or greater) SVGA (640x480) video card that is compatible with Microsoft DirectX is required. |
| Hard Drive | You must have a minimum of 40 MB free on your hard drive to install and play this game. |
| CD-ROM Drive | A 4x-speed CD-ROM drive is required. |
| Mouse | A mouse (Microsoft or 100% compatible) that works under Windows 95 is required to play this game. |
Controls
Afterburner Tab Fire guns Space Fire missile Enter Fire mine Backspace Accelerate + Decelerate - Full speed ] Full stop [ Cycle targets forward A Cycle targets backward Z Select closest hostile W Select closest friendly S Select target in crosshairs Q Disable targeting Alt-T Toggle radar style Alt-R Cycle guns G Full guns F Cycle missiles M Cycle mines B Damage HUD D Comms HUD C Forward view F1 Left view F2 Rear view F3 Right view F4 Chase view F5 External ship camera F6 Target external view F7 Target chase view F8 Fixed camera F9 Cinematic camera F10 Toggle distress receiver O Enable tractor beam T Disable tractor beam Y Warp shields Alt-W Transmit BSE virus Alt-B Activate PAD (on base only) P
Cheats
- Open the navigation screen by pressing Alt-N. Press F. Type one of the following and press enter.
- NO TALENT (Invincibility)
- REP ME UP (Repairs armor and shields)
- NAPALM (10 nukes)
- The first 9 nukes are full nukes, lasting the normal duration of about 3-4 seconds. The 10th nuke however lasts only a second, thus it doesn't do that much damage and can kill only very weak targets (most fighters stay alive with 25-50% hull intact).
- PETY PETY (Full afterburners)
- CHILL OUT (Resets laser heat level to 0)
Manuals and Game Documentation
- Commodities Pricing Table
- Privateer 2 Playguide (US)
- Privateer 2 Reference Card and Map (US)
- Privateer 2 UK Manuals
- Privateer 2 US Manuals
Credits
Cinematics
see Privateer 2: The Darkening Cinematics
Music
- Inflight music (MIDI) - by James Hannigan
Press
Strategy Guides
Behind the Screens
see Privateer 2: The Darkening: Behind the Screens
Commodities
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Food
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Hardware
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Luxury
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Ores
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Black Market
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Companies
- Blessed Aquawine
- Blessed Brew Bar
- Central Intelligence Service
- Chirichan Pirate Clan
- Crazy Eric's Ordnance Emporiums
- Crius Hospital
- Crius Net
- Crius Off-Planet Control
- Galactic Gourmet Hotel
- Hilda's Commodities Brokers
- Holy Museum of Hom
- Interplanetary Aid
- Jincilla Pirate Clan
- Kappa Laboratories
- Kindred
- Kiowan Pirate Clan
- New Crius Examiner
- Papogod Pirate Clan
- Rampant Robot Bar
- S.N. Transports of Delight
- Shadow Play Bar
- Shernikov Medical Equipment
- Sinners Inn
- Smitchell's D-Drive Doctors
- Spacey's Ultra Malls
- Surgeon's Blunder Bar
- Taffin Reclamation Inc.
Equipment
Module
- Afterburner Enhancer Mk I
- Afterburner Enhancer Mk II
- Afterburner Enhancer Mk III
- BSE
- BSE Mk II
- Coolant Unit Mk I
- Coolant Unit Mk II
- Coolant Unit Mk III
- Coolant Unit Mk IV
- Nuke'em
- Shield Generator Enhancer Mk I
- Shield Generator Enhancer Mk II
- Shield Generator Enhancer Mk III
- Warp Shield
Mine
News
People
- Alberto Fossa
- Angus Santana
- Bernice Barlow
- David Hassan
- Dimitri Avignoni
- Hugo Carmichael
- Jan Mitorr
- Janna Frevel
- Larn Regis
- Louissa Phillips
- Maria Filippa Gabriel
- Melissa Kathryn Banks
- Nelson James Ramirez
- Pemtur Douglas
- Ralph McCloud
- Reginald Arthur Bray
- Rhineheart
- Ronald Henry Bray
- Senator Veklyn Ames
- Sheila Nabokov
- Tamessa Shuna Ames
- Veldon Kashumai
- William Maddox
- Xavier Shondi
- Yvan Loomis
- Zakariah Skintight
Planets
- Anhur
- Athos
- Bex
- Corinthias
- Crius
- Desolia
- Destinas
- Hades (planet)
- Hephaestus
- Hermes
- Janus IV
- Karatikus
- Leviatha
- Massanas
- Ostinia
- Petra
- Serca
- Terrel
Ships
Player Ships
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Heavy
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Military Ships
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Pirate Ships
Jincilla Clan
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Kiowan Clan
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Chirichan Clan
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Papagod Clan
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Kindred
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Neutral Ship
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Fixtures
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Miscellaneous
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Weapons
Guns
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Missiles
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Turrets
Wingmen
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Subcategories
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
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Pages in category "Privateer 2: The Darkening"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 248 total.
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- A chance to coin it in!
- A new home for Hom
- A recipe for disaster
- Absolutely no meat content- guaranteed!
- Adipose Aggro on Anhur
- All-Stars do it again
- Altairian Rindpest hits (planet)
- Are you a Deathball fan?
- Are you as fat as a whale?
- Are you bored by life?
- Are you in search of lost childhood?
- Are you weedier than an abandoned hydroponics unit?
- Attack of the Bexian MegaLocust!
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- Bad blood at friendly match
- Bad Tidings for Hephaestus!
- Beer, beer, we want more beer
- Beverage company in the drink!
- Bex authorities crack down on corporate expansion
- Black Market fears as police cuts are announced
- Blakk is back
- Blood and Ion
- Boardgame LXXVII happens
- Bored of being normal?
- Boweled over by sheer incontinence
- Bratjoy recall product line
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- Call for help goes out as famine strikes Janus IV
- Can't make a rash decision?
- Candid's Camera
- Cannibal horror as hundreds starve on Hephaestus
- Cargo crash causes contamination
- Carts of Parts hit the Marts
- Cereal Killers!
- Chnauzer runs for president
- Circus Circus!
- CIS bring Gamberettis to justice
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 112)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 127)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 142)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 157)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 172)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 187)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 202)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 217)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 232)
- CIS Bulletin (News Bulletin 97)
- CIS net big brain bust
- CIS publish annual report
- CIS unveil plans for new departmental building
- Citizens left without a foot to stand on!
- Civilian version of Freij Craft released
- Clue-Book: Privateer 2 The Darkening
- Commerce & Communications Network
- Congratulations...
- Construction strike generates materials surplus
- Contamination hits synthetic foodstuffs
- Convicts sign TeleVid deal
- Corpulent competition causes chaos
- Crappy craft crock company
- Crash chaos kills kinky cyborgs
- Crius inhabitants show a lot of front
- Crunch time at Crisp Factory!
- Cult leaders arrested in Livestock fiasco
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- Farmer attributes 100m win to lucky potato
- Fatbink reveal their latest shield system
- Faulty Fork Fiasco
- Flashlight business torched
- Floods, suds and mud
- Flower show ends on a high
- Flower shower
- Food wasting fad leads to famine
- For the gentleperson of taste...the timepiece of distinction
- For the Ser about system...The Tweedle Buckham VacSuit Deluxe
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- H.O.C. table controversial 'air rationing' plans
- Hacker hunger horror on Hermes
- Happy Camper
- Hard?Cor! sign for Startled
- Hauliers strike starves (planet)
- Have you ever wondered what human flesh tastes like?
- Help us! plead the inhabitants of Hades
- High drama at Pool Championships
- Hot Digger-ty Dog!
- Huge medical surplus as conflict ends
- Humongous fungus raises rumpus
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- I'm just going to implant my Brain!
- If your child hasn't got a Mutant Cosmic Thunder Samurai Newt...
- Improved Afterburner available
- Interplanetary Congress pledges more money for CIS
- Is your beer holy satisfactory?
- It's caviare to the General...
- It's easier for a rich man to get into heaven...
- It's Mountain O' Cash month!
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- Magician exiled for life as 'disappearing food' trick fails
- Maiden oeuvre
- Many killed in freighter crash
- Marriage bliss for happy couple
- Mech Ball Championship delayed
- MegaLocusts hit (planet)
- Militant Mutants manufacture misery for Karatikus
- Military coup continues on (planet)
- Moustachioed Mayhem on Hades
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- New 'Cult Law' is passed
- New 'virus weapon' worries police
- New decoy proves a success
- New factory opens on (planet)
- New from Gagco......the Kakotron 2000
- New Hard? Cor! dates announced
- New league record set in Gritley-Rascon game
- New ore deposits located on (planet)
- New!!! From MegaGags!!! The Virtual Victim
- New, from Pulchresse...the CosmoDrone
- Now that's GOTTA hurt!
- Now that's what I call Death Metal
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- Pack of Black Yaks attack Zak!
- Panic on (planet) as Grain harvest fails
- Party Chairman loses out in reshuffle
- Paul Hughes, Tony Stockton, Brian Marshall, Programmers
- Peace minister faces jail
- Pecs-cellent!
- Pirates create food shortage on (planet)
- Platinum shortage reported on (planet)
- Police baffled by rodent popularity
- Police bust nets grand haul of firearms
- Police crack down on red light area
- Poll shows pop drop after Enforcement Bill
- Power station project given go-ahead
- Pre-Flab Construction
- Privateer 2 credits
- Privateer 2 Demo
- Privateer 2 Storyboards
- Privateer II: A Playtester's Perspective
- Processed Lentils
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- Scorching weather results in drought
- Scourge of the Biting Vole!
- Serra Magda Lyssom, your number's up
- Shares boom on (planet)
- Ship computer phrases
- Shock docs cock up!
- Sinners Dinners
- Sinoretti - The Spirit of Adventure
- Smart bomb, dumb pilot
- Soldiers get the needle
- Space port project runs into difficulty
- Star arrested in food fight frenzy
- Statistics debate rages on
- Stop this toxic terror!
- Storm wreaks havoc on farmers
- Stunt tragedy inflicts famine on Anhur
- Suffering from uncomfortable seat sores?
- Super grub ravages food supplies on Bex
- Synthi Skin in demand as fires rage out of control
