In cooperation with the FreeSpace Upgrade Project the game's graphics are kept up to date. This code became the core of the FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project, which continuously improves it and enables new features. In 2002, Volition released the source code for the game engine under a non-commercial license. A persistent galaxy was also available as SquadWar for players to fight with each other over territories. Free multiplayer games were available via Parallax Online which also ranked players by their statistics. The game features large numbers of fighters alongside gigantic capital ships in a battlefield fraught with beams, shells and missiles in detailed star systems and nebulae. While defending the human race and its alien Vasudan allies, the player also gets involved in putting down a rebellion. The game continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the Shivans. It was completed ahead of schedule in less than a year, and released to very positive reviews, but the game became a commercial failure, and was described by certain critics as one of 1999's most unfairly overlooked titles. FreeSpace 2 is a 1999 space combat simulation computer game developed by Volition as the sequel to Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War.
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