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It’s worth keeping the manual on hand to read and refer back to (no, seriously) and browsing discussion forums for additional help. Such depth also carries a steep learning curve. A fairly powerful system is required to run all this, though anything from the past couple of years should be sufficient. Iridescent dust and space nebula, looming planets and mighty military outposts all contribute to the atmosphere, to the extent that simply travelling around and listening to the Vangelis-like score is an ambient experience. You may stumble across pirates attacking a freighter, or all-out sector warfare against Xenon invaders.Īll of this is graphically gorgeous.

The economy is also alive and dynamic, altering according to the principles of supply and demand (though there are suspicions that this is not functioning entirely as it should at present, perhaps due to a crisis of sub-prime space mortgages.) Other ships populate the game (almost any of which you can purchase, from fighter to battleship), running taxi services and shipping goods, all adding to the sense of a universe going about its business. Every sector has shipyards, mines, farms and other structures, keen to offer tasks (denoted by handy icons) to any eager, passing pilots. Trade, piracy, asteroid mining, assassinations even the construction of your own floating factory complex is possible. Maybe you’d prefer to be supplying the dope? No problem, earn enough money to buy a couple of AI transport ships and you can live the narcotics dealing dream too.

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Fancy being a space-NARC, busting intergalactic smugglers of space weed? Improve your reputation, pick up a freelance police license and you’re good to go. Within this gigantic playpen, it’s possible to do… pretty much anything that seems feasible. X3:TC is absolutely vast, featuring a universe divided into hundreds of sectors (themselves pretty sizeable) linked by jump gates. For those who’ve waited for an updated version of Elite, greatly expanded in scope and depth, your wishes have almost come to fruition. There is the base of a splendid game here. Which means there’s no chance of X3:TC suffering from a similar bug-afflicted release, right? Ingeniously, developers Egosoft hired members of the team responsible for the excellent ‘X-Tended Mod’ to work on X3: Terran Conflict. 2005’s X3: Reunion came close, but suffered from a clunky user interface and various bugs re-emerging in a much more playable form after patching and modding. Obviously.Ĭhannelling Elite, the classic forefather of the genre, each successive X title has attempted to perfect a delicious mixture of space combat and trading.

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Since 1999, however, that’s exactly what the X series has been attempting to do. Capturing the majesty, volume and isolation of space is not an easy task. In fact, a potato-based scale of any kind will not be adequate for measuring the size of the universe. It’s definitely bigger than, say, a potato. If you’ll forgive the cliché here: space is really big.