I’ve not had time to play any more Freelancer so to tide over the baying legion of Origin fans, here is another review of Privateer 2 scanned from the February 1997 PC Home:-

It’s another great score for The Darkening. The reviewer has a point about trying to spot all the minor British actors in this game and figure out where you’ve seen them all before, I expect most of us over here would be guilty of that when playing this. I also like the description of Clive Owen given how his career went after this.