X2 game review

Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Change language. Install Steam. Your Store Your Store. Categories Categories. Special Sections. Player Support. Community Hub. X2: The Threat. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.

All Reviews:. Popular user-defined tags for this product:. Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. Languages :. This was horrible! What a waste of time. The reason I give it a 5. I can see someone liking this I cannot say how disappointed I was when I realized that they got rid of the battle system, and that it was just going to be the three girls the whole time. Expecting some form of closure or continuation from FFX, this w You're Good to Go!

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Overall its good, but it's one of those games your afraid to admit you like. Rating: 2. Raised By Wolves Jim Vejvoda Wolf Like Me Review 7h ago - The show about werewolves that will make you cry. Wolf Like Me Matt Fowler Jackson as Nick Fury, sans eye-patch. Secret Invasion Adele Ankers Hitman 3 Robert Anderson Plus, since the SPPs are by far the most worthwhile stations to build, it isn't worth the effort to close the gap and get production running in that sector. They can't get them because they're competing against several other bases, and the supplies always dry up.

It's practically a trading dead zone, then, because for some reason these AI-controlled bases don't seem to send their vessels to SPPs in other sectors, at least on a regular basis. There is a story amidst the trading simulation. While the story itself may be somewhat interesting to follow, and the rewards you get along the way, like free ships and a free jump drive, are worth winding your way through it, in my opinion.

The voice acting is actually quite good throughout, as well. But character animation is decidedly robotic, the scenes are incredibly long and involved, and the camera is distractingly drifty. You can press the Esc key to plow through most of them and view the Mission Briefing later at your leisure, but instead of being able to view it in the form of a clear, concise set of bullet points, you have to sit through another long-winded animated presentation, with the crucial points usually stuck at the end.

X2: The Threat. Can its sheer ambition overcome its flaws? Sometimes, the first games in a subgenre space trading adventure, in this case are so good and memorable that the followers never quite come out from under that shadow. Elite came out in and popped out two sequels. Privateer emerged in , quickly followed by an expansion pack, then an adventure-oriented sequel many years later and the semi-sequel Freelancer earlier this year.

Unfortunately, Privateer and Elite still stand head-and-shoulders above what came after. X2: The Threat comes closer than Freelancer in some respects, but is held back by a few fundamental issues. Verdict When I find myself writing a review that may be unfairly negative, I will take a break, or just stop writing it and come back the next day, if I have that luxury. But on the second go, I only thought of more negatives.

To be fair, a lot of what I see as drawbacks are mostly taste issues, such as the pricing scheme and the actual shallowness of the trading system.

But what still stands out is the sluggish flight model that makes it nearly impossible to continuously target and hit an enemy vessel; the corrupted save games which is supposed to fixed in the patch , and the general slowness of the design that feels like it was designed to pad length. There are better places to go for trading simulations, and better places to go for space combat.

X 2 's ambitions in trying to meld both themes ended up falling short of what most people would find entertaining. Although it got a lot of buzz as a Freelancer -type game, but it is a trading simulator at heart, and not a very satisfying one, unfortunately, since its complexity is wasted when the money is really made with only one type of product. Was this article informative? YES NO.

In This Article. In X Beyond the Frontier you searched for a way home after being stranded in a distant area of space know as the X Universe. Now its time to go back! In X2, the player takes on the role of a pilot indigenous to the X-Universe. The story begins with our soon-to-be hero and his companion attempting to steal a ship and after a failed, action packed escape attempt in a dense nebulae, he soon finds himself aboard a security ship, destined to live out his days on the cold, prison-mining world of Artur.

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