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Pretty Decent Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I havent played the first two games of the series but I like this game.. I read the reviews and found that i agree and disagree with a few of them.. I dont mind running around with cargo but I also like Microsoft's Freelancer. I dont have an issue with graphic and i run a the minmium graphics card. Yea the mission system sucks a bit but the what you can do in the rest of the game makes up. What other games can you build galatic empires in this format.

Craptastic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game hoping the find an alternative to paying for eve online. Once I began installing, I knew I had made a huge mistake. This game was obviously not ready for release since it could not even install due to missing files. I had to patiently watch the website for patches to become available. Once installed, I went in hoping to create a character. It turns out that you basically get to play one person. There is no personalized charater creation. There are three other styles you can choose from, but they all are generic. Plus the character graphics and video streams will leave you wondering if this was made 10 years ago.

Aside from the above, the ship graphics are great. But all the ships and space stations tended to look the same and you cant really appreciate them unless you get close up. The graphics of space are mediocre at best and always seems to have this perpetual "space cloud" making everything look hazy. The learning curve is steep, but that would actually be ok if there was some form of guidance. The manual promises a tutorial that doesn't exist along with many other errors. This game was just incomplete when put out and does not look like it will get much better through patches. However, if you buy a joystick, you can pilot your own craft during combat, unlike eve online. But I was hoping for something more than just a buggy, glorified arcade game.

Couldn't Install The Game Either

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My first attempt to install this game was unsuccessful. It appears that one of the CD's was missing critical installation files. I exchanged the game for a second copy, but this time discs were missing from the box. There are supposed to be 6 CDs, but my box didn't have them. A third attempt produced the same result. I have given up!

A Big Let Down...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am not one for writing long reviews so here it is. I wish this company would have done more testing with its product. I guess that a big chunk of their Install Disk #2's are faulty and you have to look for a couple of hours to find out what to do. They say download this file ect... and call them so you can get a replacement disk. I called gave info. and they never called back or sent a disk. I wont bore you with the later calls but needless to say they don't care. As to the game, it stinks. My computer is, lets say, really hyped up. Spent over 2k upgrading the thing to my "gaming machine." X3 crashed every 20 min. while playing the game. After the latest patch came out, it went from 20 min. to every hour. The forums tell you to downlolad things to fix your computer to custom make YOUR computer to play THEIR game. I have never heard the like! I guess no computer is ready by it's self to play the game. You need to tweak all sorts of files and download more outside programs to get the sound right.

If you spend 5 min. reading the forums on the X3 site and seeing the mass load of problems with the game than you will never buy it. Be smart and avoid this game. Mabey next time they will make a product that works and may even beta test it. Lets hope anyway.

Hoped this helps you.

Can't even install the game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 31
Date: November 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Not sure why this has happened.

I bought a bogus copy (s) that I couldn't even install

so I took it back and bought another copy, the same.

It seems that there was a missing file on the CD(there are six) for the U.S. version. Now, I not new to this series. I have and played X Frontier and X2 and they both installed with no problem at all at the time. So I'm very frustrated to say the least.

I haven't played this because of this fact but I was wondering if anyone has had the same problem with the U.S. version? Ego-softs web site offered very little explanation on why this was happening and a few others had posted the same issue I was having but I found that the advice they gave these people did not work for me such as copying the exe to the desk top and cleaning the disks.

This has caused me to believe the integraty of such a publisher as ego-soft was invalid and insuficiant on solving the problem overall.

I'm sure the game is good as was the last two but when you can't even install it how would I determin such a thing?

kind of like a Rubick's Cube

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This may be a great game. I have no idea.

All I know is I just spent an entire day (and the following morning) attempting to learn its most basic elements of play.

I'm lost. Utterly lost. I have absolutely no idea what's going on, and worse, I have no idea what I should be doing differently in order to improve my gameplay.

I could check online forums & newsgroups... but.. should I have to?

I'm an experienced gamer... I've played tons of complicated games, but none so poorly documented as this one. And as far as in-game help goes -- forget about it. This game must have been playtested by people already completely familiar with the series.

The game seems to have a strong following of fans, so clearly there are those out there who like it. But I prefer a game which starts out playable, and introduces layers of complexity over time.

The graphics are very nice. Not nearly as good as EVE, but very good.

If you're an ardent space sim fan maybe its for you. I'll give it 3 stars because I can tell that there is probably a great game underneath the initial confusion. I just didn't want to spend a week finding it.

Don't waste your money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a definite step backwards from X2.Not only does it suffer from an interface that was simultaniously developed for pc and console(meaning the pc version was"dumbed down")but it installs the most insidious version of StarForce.I had to reformat my computer after installing this load of garbage.Don't ever mention this problem on the official forums or you will have the moderators accusing you of being a pirate.
The plot bites(what little I could play because of bugs and copy protection problems)combat is really boring and easy.Iwish I could give this misbegotten bundle of bad coding no stars.

This is a great game, but let the buyer beware...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: June 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This title is the 6-CD version of the game on corrupt install media. There is a workaround available on the developer's website (egosoft.com) but it will NOT install cleanly without reading up on it first.

Otherwise, great graphics and gameplay, and about as open-ended as they come!

Open Ended and Complex

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Not nearly as difficult to play as many of the reviews I have read here and elsewhere. Controls are nested or hidden from view but can be easily found by either ENTER or ESC key.

Beginning with the Normal game worked fine for me but has been a little slow earning the credits you need to upgrade your ship. Combat is great fun but also is frustrating as your ship has light shields ( if your hull gets moderately damaged I would reload the game as it is $$$ to repair). Trading and taking people to other stations is my primary income right now.
If you have the attention span of a Space Fly and need constants action then this game is not for you. there is a great deal of exploring other systems and visiting various bases looking for work.
The graphics look spectacular on my system: AMD x2 4400, 1 gb Ram, 2- 7800gtx graphics cards in SLI. I got the latest game patch and have not had any bugs or issues so far (3 weeks now).

I think they did a great job with this game. I was a big Privateer fan and have played other games from that genre. X3: Reunion finally nailed it on the head.

Not worth SQUAT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I cant beleive egosoft would dare realease a game like THIS! First attempt at installing, no work. I bring it back try again, it works. *whew*. But my problems where just to get worse. gameplay is TERRIBLE and sooo slooooow annndd soooo booooring! I cant seem to do ANYTHING without it crashing the first chance it gets!! X2 in my opinion was great. Only the ONLY bug I got was that I couldnt talk to people because VERY occasionaly it would crash....and they fixed this bug. I expected the sequel to show more enthusiasm but nooo. I have to fly from this station to the next to the next more then I had to in X2 to find a job. Any jobs they have I need SOME requirement or another. I cant get heads or tails with the loopy controls which are WORSE then X2's. *shiver* Now for the best par of any space game...the combat! WHAT THE HELL!? Shooting is worse WORSE I say then X2s and thats saying a lot. You have to fire in every direction and pray that they wont collide into you and kill you instantaneously. Ugh. I think that X2 was MUCH better and just needed a few patches for it to work. It turned out great. But this? This is a disgrace to the history of space adventure games man has EVER made! ok maybe its not that bad. If you are realeasing a sequel, do a better job....

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