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X2: The Threat
Released On: Dec 3, 2003
72
7.9
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
72
44% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
52% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
72
44% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
52% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Perhaps the finest game to strap on its space-trading boots since the seminal "Elite." It's better than "Freelancer," better than "EVE Online," better than the original "X: Beyond The Frontier," better than any number of Privateers, Battlecruisers, Freespaces and Frontiers. Best, best, best. Am I making this clear enough? [PC Zone]
Tremendously realistic graphics and audio bring the world of space travel to brilliant life. While the story serves as a driving force for the single player campaign, it never fully develops into anything worthwhile.
Loaded with enough features to keep a serious space simulation nut busy for a long time, however, its steep learning curve and surface dust can cause many a casual gamer to shy away from it, opting out for something along the lines of Freelancer instead.
X2 does offer some highly satisfying gameplay--if you're willing to stick with it. It's not a game that has any reasonable prospect of revitalizing the space sim genre, since it's from a small developer and isn't particularly accessible, but it's a game that highlights why the genre was once much more popular.
With the depth of everything and overall graphical sophistication in X2, it could have been a much better title. [Feb 2004, p.112]
You're probably looking at a good thirty to forty hours of gameplay before you start to touch on the high-level possibilities of X2.
There are so many details packed into this game that the learning curve is not so much a curve as it is a cliff and more than a little persistence will be required to get anywhere in this game.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.9
75% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
21% Mixed
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5 Ratings
4% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.9
75% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
21% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
4% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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Summary X2: The Threat offers players a rich storyline and a boundless game play universe. In X2, the player takes on the role of a pilot indigenous to the X-Universe. The story unfolds as the soon-to-be hero and his companion attempt to steal a ship. After a failed, action-packed escape, he soon finds himself aboard a security ship and destined...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Dec 3, 2003
Developer:
- Egosoft
Publisher: Enlight Software
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