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X3: Reunion (Game Of The Year Edition)
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X3: Reunion (Game Of The Year Edition)

Customer rating on X3: Reunion (Game Of The Year Edition): 4 out of 5 stars ( 1 customer rating )

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RRP: £34.99 | You save: £29.99 (85%)

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Special Features

 

  • X3: Reunion engine utilises the very latest DirectX 9 graphical technology. Pixel shader technology is used to create realistic reflections across a variety of surface types, while bump maps and specula maps add detail to the geometry of objects.
  • A freshly developed economy system allows for more imaginative ways to conquer your foes via commerce. Functions using established business models of 'Elasticity of demand', 'Economies of scale' and 'Return on investment'. Factories are constructed by non player characters, which can freely trade. Wars in sectors affect the universal economy, while opportunities bring challenges to both novice and experienced players.
  • Over 200 newly designed models have been created for X3. Star ship detail has been massively increased - over 10 times greater than the previous game at an average of 25,000 polygons per ship.
  • A new graphical user interface prevents less screen obstruction and faster access to all game options.
  • Completely redesigned X universe, with new high detailed environments including asteroid fields, dense gaseous nebulae's, star ship graveyards and much more. Players can fly much closer to planetary bodies where space stations can hang in low planetary orbits.
  • A multitude of new technologies and weapons systems, make the player even more devastating in combat. Multi-threat targeting system allows for numerous targets to be pin pointed simultaneously.
  • Controllable via joystick, keyboard and mouse cursor. All are fully re-mappable giving the player infinite choice over control layout, which can be stored as custom profiles.

Review

 

X3: Reunion continues to lead the way in offering players the ultimate open ended game play experience, backed by an addictive storyline and intense combat/trading action. Utilising the 'X3 Reality' engine, X3 pushes the graphical boundary to movie quality in-game graphics. Trade in a new economy, dynamically reactive in pricing relative to supply and demand. Fight individual dog fights or command full-scale fleets against massive enemy armadas. Budding trade entrepreneurs can build interconnecting factories to create huge space borne complexes, to truly mass produce commodities. Think through a professional screen-written story line, to unravel the destiny of the galaxy.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on X3: Reunion (Game Of The Year Edition): 4 out of 5 stars

Average rating (1 review)

Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars Stunning, but complicated.

Quicksilver11 | 25/05/2007 | See all Quicksilver11's reviews (21) »

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Stay well away from this game if your just a casual gamer like me. I played it for a whole day and barely made a dent on it, you need to read the very thick manual and look for some decent tutorials online, but once you learn the game its addictive...and huge! You will need a pretty good PC to run this game, but the type of gamer this will appeal to will probably have no problem running it on their system.

The thing I like most about X3 is the different approaches you can take, you can explore and find ruins of old starships or artefacts floating in space, you can police the different sectors fighting the pirates, or you can simply shoot your way to power.

As I said before, this game is for hardcore gamers who will spend weeks and months playing it. I have given it 4 stars for this reason, the complexity will probably put off most gamers within the first few days. But for those who persist its an excellent game will worth the money.

Technical Details

 

12+ (PEGI)

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Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP with DirectX 9.0c
1.7GHz Pentium IV or equivalent
512MB RAM
128MB Graphics Card (DirectX 9.0c compatible)
2GB HDD Space
DVD-ROM Drive
This information is based on specifications supplied by manufacturers and should be used for guidance only.