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Game Information
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- State-of-the-art graphics engine utilizing all the latest Direct X capabilities
- Large dynamic universe to explore, packed with thousands of objects
- Build your own empire as a trader, bounty hunter, pirate, or miner
- Heart-thumping, freeform storyline with dozens of interlinked missions
- Over 70 ships to buy and fly
- employ a myriad of offensive weaponry
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Product Description
Product Description
X2: The Threat is now set to redefine the space-trading genre. Though staying true to X: Beyond the Frontier, its predecessor, X2: The Threat is unique thanks to its freedom of exploration and uninhibited style of gameplay. A first-person space exploration experience, X2: The Threat immerses the player in a dynamic, living, breathing universe, where every event and action has "cause and effect" upon the entire gaming universe. Discover new worlds and life forms across countless sectors of space. Players can become a trader, bounty hunter, pirate, miner or a strategic combination of them all. The choice of how the player experiences that universe is up to them.
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60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The new elite (patience required),
This review is from: X2 - The Threat (PC) (Video Game)
If you love classic space exploration games, such as elite, spaceflight, tau ceti, freelancer, privateer etc. This is a game you must have. However, be warned that it is complex, and requires about a few days of solid play to get into. At first it seems overly complex and actually quite boring. You fly around in your spaceship and watch some dodgy cutscenes with bad dialogue. I actually considered taking the game back to the shop during the first few hours. Luckily, I stuck with it, and slowly, and incredible game with a living breathing economy (you actually feel like you're helping the economy when you trade), and a deep ambient feeling started to emerge.I haven't fought one ship yet, and my ship doesn't even have lasers (I've got a couple of missiles though). Most games would force mindless battles upon you (freelancer) just because that is what is expected in the genre. But not X2. It moves at a slower pace- not as slow as Battlecruiser Millenium (comatose), but it does pick up occasionally for tense battles. The game also has the innovative feature of leaving your ship and going for a spacewalk. This is surely one of the coolest features ever in a pc game. In one of the early missions, you have to scan a large destroyed gate in space- and the feeling of leaving your spaceship and flying towards this colossal gate is something I haven't experienced before in games: The feeling of being alone and insignificant. You feel absolutely tiny, and you can look around inside your helmet, giving a realistically claustrophic feeling of awe. I am very heartened that game designers out there are widening the emotional pallete of the computer game protagonist. Mirko
52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic! Elite for the 21st Century - well almost,
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This review is from: X2 - The Threat (PC) (Video Game)
If you’ve played Elite or know about it then you’ll have a good handle on this game. You start from humble beginnings, a small spaceship and a few credits, and start to build your empire – and what an empire you can make (theoretically unlimited)!Background The Universe is huge, with different races/species, each with their own technologies and ship designs. There are space station factories at which to buy and sell goods, to take on missions from the bulletin board, to upgrade or purchase ships etc. What is more, you can buy your own factories which will make you money, and you can buy additional ships to automatically get raw materials and sell your finished goods. One of the features of the game is that the trading environment is dynamic so that prices change over time depending on whether there is a surplus or a deficit, and how you trade affects what is available. Story There is also a story/plot for you to follow which requires you to complete various missions. These can be done at a time of your choosing so you can build your empire (or maybe just buy that additional weapon) before doing the next one. There are hostile races to contend with, as well as “police” should you be doing anything illicit. Gameplay The gameplay is excellent, though not without its weaknesses. Making “money” and building an empire is always fun and addictive but you can spend a lot of time just waiting for your factories/fleet to earn credits for your next purchase. There are optional missions available at stations (the usual stuff like take x to y within so many days) but these aren’t as lucrative, challenging or varied as they could be. A small number of products are significantly more profitable than the rest which limits the trading somewhat. The difficulty level merely affects your initial net worth (ship quality and credits) rather than the difficulty of missions or capability of enemies and killing enemies can get too easy later on in the game. Given that the more money you have the more you can make, improving your bank balance seems very slow to begin with but stick with it, you will get your have factories and ships in due course. Graphics Fantastic, but you need something meaty to play it on. Note that ATI (& only ATI) cards don’t support dual monitors in X2. The ships and stations are varied, well designed and good to look at. Nebulae give some nice colour to some systems. Manual Alas the manual is dire. You end up buying equipment and then having to work out what it does or how to use it: you can end up having to go to the Egosoft forums to get help. There are game tutorials which will teach you the basics of trading/flight/combat though. This is a review of the Australian version so some of the criticisms may be fixed for the UK version which will probably have the second patch.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
For those of you, whom read before you buy...! ! Awesome ! !,
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This review is from: X2 - The Threat (PC) (Video Game)
As an eager X - Series player and being part of a Clan based on the series ('X Mining Corporation' XMC: www.xminingcorp.co.uk): here are my thoughts on X-2 The Threat.If you are interested in the X - Series and already own X-Beyond The Frontier/X-Tension (= X-Gold) then you'll love this game. Not only does it incorporate the sectors of space, ships, goods, races and the unlimitedness that were previously available in the past two games, but it features; A) More Ships (e.g. Destroyers and Corvettes) And an added bonus for those of you like me, whom like to program stuff: A Script Editor, which can change scripts for the AI or even let you customised your ships for trade route ... after having downloaded the appropriate script from another site and installed it...(www.xscripting.com) The Graphics on this game are awesome.... if you ever thought of seeing shadows in space...Now you can! Not to meantion the hour at the begining you'll just be eyeballing the inside of your ship.... Egosoft(www.egosoft.com) did good to delay this game, spite those players whom were eager to play an unfinished game.... It's well worth your hard earned cash, to buy this game.... Note: If you're unsure whether your computer can run this game check out: http://www.egosoft.com/x/xmain.php?language=44&display=requirements
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