X Rebirth

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1310 Ratings

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  1. Morphine_Child
    Feb 2, 2020
    3
    The game was released as unfinished half product, overly complicated, super demanding and buggy, it got forgotten as fast as it deserved. I would rather go all the way back and play X2 again.
  2. Broyax
    Mar 27, 2017
    2
    Au bout d'un an de patches (!), le jeu est plutôt jouable, stable mais encore buggué quoique qu'on ne sache pas si c'est en raison des mécaniques de jeu périmenazes et absconses ou simplement de purs vrais bugs résultant de l'incompétence notoire d'Egosoft qui fait pourtant le même simulateur spatial pourri depuis des années. Les deux sans doute.

    L'interface au pad 360 est bizarre mais    Au bout d'un an de patches (!), le jeu est plutôt jouable, stable mais encore buggué quoique qu'on ne sache pas si c'est en raison des mécaniques de jeu périmenazes et absconses ou simplement de purs vrais bugs résultant de l'incompétence notoire d'Egosoft qui fait pourtant le même simulateur spatial pourri depuis des années. Les deux sans doute.

    L'interface au pad 360 est bizarre mais presque correcte tout comme les menus à la fois laids et peu pratiques. En vérité, rien n'est vraiment "pratique" dans un X, tout est pensé en dépit du bon sens. Le commerce est incroyablement lourd à gérer, même l'exploitation minière est un pensum. Les combats sont moyens, on est loin des vieux standards de référence (des années 90 !) en la matière !

    Techniquement parlant, c'est toujours aussi joli (mais diablement exigeant... l'optimisation est clairement absente) sauf les personnages horriblement modélisés, un massacre ! X Rebirth est tout en français avec un doublage plutôt correct. Dommage que ça n'aide pas vraiment à jouer ce jeu kafkaïen. Je n'ai pas le temps (à perdre) pour circonvenir les limitations bordéliques d'un jeu programmé par la même bande d'incapables depuis des décennies. Egosoft, vous êtes des clowns.    … Expand
  3. Jams79
    Sep 19, 2015
    0
    I take it all back, this game hasn't improved anywhere near as much as I hoped it would and what we are left with is a drastic decrease in quality compared to the games preceding it.
  4. Exocrime
    Jul 24, 2015
    0
    even after patch 3.53 the game is crap. still no economic system, still the same station to walk at every station, still a stupid autopilot ( remember me of X3 TC autopilot, do the same crap and crash you into stations ^^)

    this game is still only a space shooter with a tiny element of random Price history tradingsystem. X games had 4 foundations of gameplay: "trade, fight, build,    even after patch 3.53 the game is crap. still no economic system, still the same station to walk at every station, still a stupid autopilot ( remember me of X3 TC autopilot, do the same crap and crash you into stations ^^)

    this game is still only a space shooter with a tiny element of random Price history tradingsystem.
    X games had 4 foundations of gameplay: "trade, fight, build, think". Rebirth has only 2 left : fight and build.

    if u want a space shooter. this is your game. if u want a simulation, its not.    … Expand
  5. saz
    May 28, 2015
    0
    Still has bugs and the design just isn't engaging. Crazy folks are putting up high marks. Auto pilot drops you in station hulls where you have to restart or instead of going directly towards a gate takes you on a scenic path that is longer that I have boost for. You can't destroy stations and can only build in certain spots. The factions just spawn ships so the economy is just for you.Still has bugs and the design just isn't engaging. Crazy folks are putting up high marks. Auto pilot drops you in station hulls where you have to restart or instead of going directly towards a gate takes you on a scenic path that is longer that I have boost for. You can't destroy stations and can only build in certain spots. The factions just spawn ships so the economy is just for you. Highways suck. I'm constantly muting stupid chatter with NPCs, Ren and Yesha like every time you ask for wares or assign a new superior. Mods help but aren't updated so many aren't working now. FPS issues in certain zones so you have to change graphics options back and forth. I spend all my in game time just flying around stations. It's no fun. And all the trading is done in a tiny text window. Come on how about a nice drag and drop or something that doesn't resemble DOS.… Expand
  6. jmhoffer
    May 19, 2015
    0
    It's been two years since this game was released. It has received update after update and it looks like the developers are done updating.

    And you still shouldn't pay a cent for it. It is still riddled with glitches, bugs and low FPS issues even on high end systems. The campaign is more frustrating than fun (such as sending you into combat that you can't win unless you run away and    It's been two years since this game was released. It has received update after update and it looks like the developers are done updating.

    And you still shouldn't pay a cent for it.

    It is still riddled with glitches, bugs and low FPS issues even on high end systems. The campaign is more frustrating than fun (such as sending you into combat that you can't win unless you run away and make your enemy follow you to a station and let the station turrets destroy them).

    I played for a few hours then uninstalled.

    People, PLEASE stop pre purchasing! The only reason game companies can release crap like this is because you idiots keep pre purchasing their games! They already have your money, so they can release junk and there is nothing you can do about it! STOP!    … Expand
  7. vargata
    Mar 17, 2015
    3
    I loved X games always so I've pre-ordered it. The disappointment was so big i was fighting steam and ego to give back my money. finally the did. now, after one and a half year of patching Egosoft decided to give a free weekend so i thought to give them an other chance. played 17 hours in 2 days. Some would say it already worth £10 as entertainment but it was more of just suffering. itsI loved X games always so I've pre-ordered it. The disappointment was so big i was fighting steam and ego to give back my money. finally the did. now, after one and a half year of patching Egosoft decided to give a free weekend so i thought to give them an other chance. played 17 hours in 2 days. Some would say it already worth £10 as entertainment but it was more of just suffering. its not entertaining visually and not entertaining as a game. The game is still ugly, the grannies are still haunting it, the shiny surfaces are still all around, everything has the very same color. the AI is still crap, the new autopilot is useless, the gravidar was better while we missed it, at least it want annoying... it seems they just cant make anything right. i cant believe its made by the same company who has 25 years of experience in making X games... Avoid it in any cost.… Expand
  8. kotekzot
    Mar 14, 2015
    3
    Despite having been released over a year ago and receiving many patches, the game still severely underperforms on high-end hardware and does not have compelling gameplay. Expect to spend 80% of your play time flying back and forth through transparent space tubes, 10% flying around space stations within 10 meters of the hull to scan information points and giving trade orders to your ships,Despite having been released over a year ago and receiving many patches, the game still severely underperforms on high-end hardware and does not have compelling gameplay. Expect to spend 80% of your play time flying back and forth through transparent space tubes, 10% flying around space stations within 10 meters of the hull to scan information points and giving trade orders to your ships, and the last 10% pew-pewing spaceships with one weapon at a time.

    Here are some of the game's shortcomings:

    * Boring gameplay consisting mostly of flying through space tubes, as if you're playing some sort of public transit passenger simulator rather than a space game.
    * Vastly fewer weapon options with no ability to fire multiple weapons simulatenously.
    * You can only pilot one ship unlike previous games, where you had hundreds of choices in many ship categories, from scouts to carriers to freighters.
    * All objects in space are inexplicably surrounded by protective bubbles that absorb all damage from collisions, making the few precious moments spent outside space tubes even less exciting.
    * A lot of tasks needlessly require the player's presence, such as chauffeuring ship officers from stations to the ships where they are to work.
    * When talking to NPCs, you must wait for them to finish talking before your commands take effect, given the fact that a particular zone may have dozens of NPCs of the same type offering their services, this makes finding specific goods very annoying.
    * You are forced to use a cockpit, wasting 30% of your screen on what is essentially a static model with some flashing lights here and there. A discreet HUD overlaid on an unobstructed view of space would be vastly superior for many players.
    * The draw distance is depressing, with objects conspicuously popping in as you travel inside space tubes.
    * The 4 different sectors are basically palette swaps of each other with a few cosmetic differences (a cracked planet here, some space debris there, etc).
    * The script and voiceovers quite obviously weren't done by native speakers, resulting in strange and immersion-breaking dialogue and pronunciation.
    * Character models and station interiors are very low-quality.
    * The Teladi look like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. This would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
    * Your co-pilot's jumpsuit has an embarrassing boob window that betrays a lack of respect for the playerbase.

    The game does feature a few improvements, however they hardly justify all its shortcomings:

    * Capital ship components can be damaged individually, adding depth to capital ship combat.
    * More piracy options, now you can not only extort and salvage enemy ships, but also hack them to release cargo.
    * Station complexes now exist as superstructures rather than individual stations connected by spaghetti strands.    … Expand
  9. Riker_sui
    Feb 27, 2015
    0
    The biggest disappointment ever. I'm was a massiv fan of X-BTF, X2, X3, but this game are a crap unplayable console game on PC. My big mistake, i bought the Collectors Edition.
  10. TheValeyard
    Oct 29, 2014
    2
    As a fan of the X-series, this game needs to be erased from my memory. All the things that made the previous game fun and enjoyable are gone. No more are the various ships you can fly, just the one. With the odd change to the hull and screen. While the giant stations and boarding are welcomed, it quickly becomes repetitive and the traffic space lanes are just annoying. Very disappointingAs a fan of the X-series, this game needs to be erased from my memory. All the things that made the previous game fun and enjoyable are gone. No more are the various ships you can fly, just the one. With the odd change to the hull and screen. While the giant stations and boarding are welcomed, it quickly becomes repetitive and the traffic space lanes are just annoying. Very disappointing and sometimes broken game from a company that had made some quality space games in the past.… Expand
  11. Sherfire
    Oct 24, 2014
    1
    I heard about this series from friends so I jumped right in to this game. BIG MISTAKE. After a year of updates and communication with the developer I have come to the conclusion that they are incompetent.

    This game doesn't work. They advertise a thriving economy in which your actions effect the world. NO, you build a station and nothing comes to trade. You build a capital fleet and the    I heard about this series from friends so I jumped right in to this game. BIG MISTAKE. After a year of updates and communication with the developer I have come to the conclusion that they are incompetent.

    This game doesn't work. They advertise a thriving economy in which your actions effect the world. NO, you build a station and nothing comes to trade. You build a capital fleet and the fleet doesn't work. The ships don't go mine like they are supposed to. Your drones don't come back to your ship. Unless you are in system with your ships they just sit there, waiting for you, instead of following their orders.

    I spent about 100 hours playing this game. Then returned to put in another 20 hours several months later. Then again several months after that.

    NOW, the developer is releasing an "expansion" yet the vanilla game features still don't work. Why are they developing new content instead of fixing the vanilla game? Well, the only thing I can come up with is that this game is so broken, fundamentally, that they can't fix it.

    Save your money, buy anything else, this game is one of the top 3 worst piles of junk I have ever played in my 30 years of gaming.    … Expand
  12. victorman
    Oct 12, 2014
    1
    I really don't understand how any player could rate "this" with a 10... This is the worst "X" ever made.
    All 10 rates must be egosoft employers, because I cant understand a 10 with "sure in the "distant" future egosoft improve que game.... has a lot of bugs but... or you need at least 50 hours to "understand" the game.... or posting only the very few improvements... The problem of this    I really don't understand how any player could rate "this" with a 10... This is the worst "X" ever made.
    All 10 rates must be egosoft employers, because I cant understand a 10 with "sure in the "distant" future egosoft improve que game.... has a lot of bugs but... or you need at least 50 hours to "understand" the game.... or posting only the very few improvements... The problem of this game at this rate is not the bugs, or the future paths, the main problem is the playability. If you want a space 3d shooter with legacy Xbox graphics, some economic features and waste a lot of times in stupid routines (about 5 minutes searching inside stations instead doing in 5 seconds this with the ship docked like in previous series), OK this can be your game, but the score must not be over 5. If you like a true space sandbox with good trading and exploration, the legacy X2 is still far better than this.... This game lost the "soul" of the X series, I try to find some fun in the 2.5 release, but the main problem is still the playability, economic simulation, IA, the whole universe, instead the bugs. Sorry for my bad english.    … Expand
  13. verun
    Oct 1, 2014
    0
    Instead of a review, I'll write my experience with this game.

    I've waited a half year to try this because Egosoft usually takes this long to get a new X game running. I was eager to try my new Saitek X52 Pro on this one. First I went into options, like with any PC game to set some graphical stuff. I found the resolution was set to 1280 which was very odd, so I set it to my native res    Instead of a review, I'll write my experience with this game.

    I've waited a half year to try this because Egosoft usually takes this long to get a new X game running. I was eager to try my new Saitek X52 Pro on this one.

    First I went into options, like with any PC game to set some graphical stuff. I found the resolution was set to 1280 which was very odd, so I set it to my native res (usually done automatically in PC games, first fears of Consolitis surfaced in me).

    I read on the net, that the "story" mode is a big tutorial, so I went with that to get ready for free play.
    The first thing I saw was this polygon puppet that is supposed to be a woman. It looks exactly like a 3D woman looked.... back in the year 2000. I'm not exaggerating here! The character animations are on the same level and look like a mixture of zombies and robots.
    The game is (supposedly) not about character interaction though, so I thought and just ignored that and went on to fly....

    ... or not.
    The entire Joystick keybinds were completely messed up. Like this game was made for a (inferior) console and not for the PC gaming master race. So there was some Consolitis in the game. I didn't even know they released this game for a console. A space sim... really? They are MADE for PC's.
    I accepted that too, though it started to bug me...

    Anyway I went on to configure the joystick so that it was able to actually fly forward (strafe up/down; left/right were set as default instead of pitch and jaw) and use some of the functions that were unbound or bound to strange keys (autopilot, map, dock, targeting). I still had to choose menu options with the mouse and run around with kb+mouse setup. Strangely there were highlighted button names like they appear on game pads (A)... hmmm...
    I was kinda pissed at this time, but I still hoped the game was at least bug free, stable and that the free play mode later would offer some fun.

    After one hour I was ready to fly. Yippee! A big universe awaits!
    First mission: target practice!

    The game tutorial told me the highlighted stuff was showing me where to go. This was nice, the only downside was that there was no highlighted stuff. It also told me it would display the distance - but it didn't display anything, not even my flight speed.
    While I was still trying to get that display of normal HUD info up and running, which is to be expected in every space sim game since the most early ones, I suddenly lost all control of not only the ship, but also the HOTAS, the mouse and the keyboard too. The ship was now drifting towards some asteroids...
    So I half heartedly tried to solve this next obstacle... I even tabbed out of the game and tried to go back, but couldn't as it was "Not Responding".

    Well okay, then I'll not respond to it either.
    0 points for this epic wanna be space sim fail.
    Deleted.

    TL/DR:
    Wow! After a half year, this game is buggier than the alpha version of Star Citizen - Arena Commander, it surpasses all games I know in terms of unplayability and the character models and animations were directly sent here from 14 years in the past.

    In short: Consolitis, severe alpha bugs, stay away at all costs!
    This game will never reach the state X2-The Threat had, better go with that game!    … Expand
  14. Bawlrytupad
    Oct 1, 2014
    3
    Rebirth is still a dull, shallow and lobotomized sequel to the X series. Ongoing bug fixing still hasn't changed the fundamental reasons why this isn't a good game. Egosoft will not be addressing the terribly poor core game-play, but instead will continue bug-fixing and adding new features and DLC.

    This game (as at 2.5 beta) still appears to have been cribbed by a third-rate company    Rebirth is still a dull, shallow and lobotomized sequel to the X series. Ongoing bug fixing still hasn't changed the fundamental reasons why this isn't a good game. Egosoft will not be addressing the terribly poor core game-play, but instead will continue bug-fixing and adding new features and DLC.

    This game (as at 2.5 beta) still appears to have been cribbed by a third-rate company from a competent developer, nearly a year after release. Buyer beware.    … Expand
  15. UNCLEPAULIE
    Sep 8, 2014
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. X Rebirth 2.50 9 months after launch

    This game is still no a working game, with every patch and update there comes with it an ever growing list of bugs and fixes . It is clear to me that every time Egosoft add something they also mess something up ........... 1 step forward, 2 steps back springs to mind .
    Its not all bad, there have been performance gains for people, there also has been a few decent things added, the only problem is anything they added is a basic feature you would come to expect in the vanilla version, nothing much to show for 9 months work .

    IMO and pretty much all the Steam community DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, THERE IS A REASON LESS THAN 400 PEOPLE PLAY IT    … Expand
  16. mrdisaster88
    Jul 21, 2014
    0
    Deceitful sales tactics, fascist forum moderation & a truly horrible game which is still in alpha, even 6 months after its supposedly "finished" release. DO NOT BUY!!!
  17. tillhopesdies
    Jul 17, 2014
    3
    ok soooooooooooooo, I was expecting like (sins of a solar empire , meets x universe) with better graphics -- meaning , I invest into my empire , I care for my ships and am attached to them , but have capital ship battles that are epic and more enjoyable than the previouse x games then also incorporate a character system like the new shadow of mordor , where you hunt down a capital shipok soooooooooooooo, I was expecting like (sins of a solar empire , meets x universe) with better graphics -- meaning , I invest into my empire , I care for my ships and am attached to them , but have capital ship battles that are epic and more enjoyable than the previouse x games then also incorporate a character system like the new shadow of mordor , where you hunt down a capital ship because he laughed at your weakness in the early stage of your empires begging's and the traits of that character are different from another enemy capital. ii wanted to see like a fable system where your actions created your own character , effecting everything from trade to ship purchases... HOW ABOUT DESIGHING YOUR OWN CAPITAL new race , .... but was left with a first person shooter , boring and long , not much challenge .. I feel like I was just cheated on by my husband of 20 years and told it was for my own good.… Expand
  18. Kaine4100
    Jun 23, 2014
    1
    Wer gerne Stationen abgrast, auf der suche nach Kisten. Die gefüllt sind mit Plunder ist hier genau richtig.
    Die Dialogen auf den Stationen wiederholen sich ständig, was an sich nicht schlimm ist. Da Rabatte bei Händler aber über Dialog Minispiele geführt werden nervt es mit der zeit.
    Die Optik des Spiels ist gut, die Übersicht im Spiel ist aber gewöhnungsbedürftig. X Rebirth hat    Wer gerne Stationen abgrast, auf der suche nach Kisten. Die gefüllt sind mit Plunder ist hier genau richtig.
    Die Dialogen auf den Stationen wiederholen sich ständig, was an sich nicht schlimm ist. Da Rabatte bei Händler aber über Dialog Minispiele geführt werden nervt es mit der zeit.
    Die Optik des Spiels ist gut, die Übersicht im Spiel ist aber gewöhnungsbedürftig.
    X Rebirth hat gegenüber von X3 Re./TC./AP deutlich an Spieltiefe verloren.    … Expand
  19. blackbird1
    Jun 17, 2014
    0
    X Rebirth
    Average User Score: 3.1
    Jun 17, 2014
    5
    X Rebirth Imageomg i missklicked my first review and gave this mess a 5 BUT ITS a ZERO
    I never was so dissapointed by a game like this is the worst game for me of all time and i have 17 years of PC Gaming history
  20. Bmane
    May 23, 2014
    1
    X-Rebirth. What a disaster. Where did it all go wrong? Who mistook innovation for bad game mechanics? Who thought it was a good idea to require you to land on stations and have to waste time hunting for dull npc's to engage with them in small-talk mini-games just so you can get a leg-up on getting good deals? I never pre-ordered X-Rebirth or bought it due to the bad vibe that I wasX-Rebirth. What a disaster. Where did it all go wrong? Who mistook innovation for bad game mechanics? Who thought it was a good idea to require you to land on stations and have to waste time hunting for dull npc's to engage with them in small-talk mini-games just so you can get a leg-up on getting good deals? I never pre-ordered X-Rebirth or bought it due to the bad vibe that I was getting. I have played it extensively however recently on a friends computer and I have to say that all the negative reviews are generally spot-on. Does make me consider the mental health (or agenda) of any reviewer who can honestly give this game a rating above a 5...

    X-Rebirth was suppose to dress a lot of the issues present in the past series. So lets have a look at them.

    Interface: Did they address it? No! They've actually made it worse! What were they thinking? It also feels like it isn't even complete. There is no mission board so your left hunting, literally, for mission icons on stations to just pick up a job.

    AI Pathfinding/Auto-pilot: Even with the 2.0 patch lately, the AI is still horrendous and simplified compared to the previous game.

    Map Size: I've often read on the forums of a poor defense argument when it comes to the map size. Some will say that while there is less sectors (only 4) they are a LOT bigger than your average sector. True. But an easy rebuttal is that if you combine just 8-10 sectors from the previous game you would come up with one whole sector, and considering the previous game had around 199 sectors, yeah... See my point? 4x10 is just 40 sectors! Course I've not gotten my measuring tape out but it's quite obvious that the map has been downsized. I'd imagine that will increase later on with paid DLC, O YAY!... (Sarcasm)

    Graphics: Again, another area in game development that has suffered, strangely enough. You'd imagine this would be an area of development that would have improved, but no! The shaders, while the 2.0 patch has improved them slightly, are still poor. Station interiors are horrendous. NPC's still look like plastic dolls. Stations themselves look like their made out of shiny plastic and the ship designs are, well, crap...

    Player Mechanics: Ah yes, a topic that has been discussed to death on the forums prior and post release. Egosoft did their best in trying to PR this disaster in stating that the restriction on player ships would no way hamper gameplay, instead, we would have drones to make up for it! Err... Yay? Egosoft made some excuses, prior to release, that such a limitation was there because THEY decided that it be more fun that way. That's right, they figured it wasn't fun to fly other ships and instead more fun to fly just the one! Yes, Bernd did state as such on the forums. Now we know they were just trying to coddle us.

    With the arrival of the 2.0 patch, or as I call it, X-Rebirth 1.00, there has been some bug fixing, interface improvements and general across the board touch-ups. But, regardless of any future 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 patches, I can't see them fixing the core of the game which is a shoddy mess of design. No matter how many patches/dlc is released, X-Rebirth will still be X-Rebirth at the end of the day, and that's a bad thing.

    I love the X-Series. X3TC is by far my favorite (along with some mods) so I had high hopes for X-Rebirth despite my misgivings about the 1-ship deal. Unfortunately X-Rebirth is one of those rare games in which there is nothing in it that I can honestly say I like. That's an achievement for someone like myself who loved the series.    … Expand
  21. bartmoss
    May 22, 2014
    1
    This is an absolutely terrible game. As in, really bad. The 2.0 update doesn't really fix it, instead I found it even less playable. If you get a free copy and your time is worth nothing, then this is probably a game to pick up. Otherwise you are better off staring at your bedroom walls. The only reason I give it one point is that there is still Garry's Incident.
  22. reijison
    May 22, 2014
    1
    Bought and played after patch 2.0. I really want to believe there's a good game here, but there isn't. The entire game feels as though the developers had the best of intentions with the mechanics and game play, but then never actually ended up playing the game they made, or spending time in UX feedback. The game plays extremely clumsy and is riddled with bugs and poor gameplay experience.Bought and played after patch 2.0. I really want to believe there's a good game here, but there isn't. The entire game feels as though the developers had the best of intentions with the mechanics and game play, but then never actually ended up playing the game they made, or spending time in UX feedback. The game plays extremely clumsy and is riddled with bugs and poor gameplay experience. As you play through the campaign, you'll have to have Google open next to you, because you'll encounter all sorts of roadblocks or spend a lot of time banging your head against the wall as you ponder why on Earth this was made this way. There's no good answer, only that they probably shipped an incomplete game.

    I was really hoping for a good space game, but this isn't it. And now i'm very disappointed.    … Expand
  23. arglebargle_asd
    May 20, 2014
    0
    X Rebirth? More like X Stillbirth. This isn't a game, it's a waste of your money. Technically the game is horrid, grinding to 10-15fps on high end machines. Gameplay-wise the game is horrid with early 2000's style wooden npcs and horrific off-ship play. Did I mention the bugs? You'll spend more time trying to figure out how to work around bugs than you will actually playing the game.

    If    X Rebirth? More like X Stillbirth. This isn't a game, it's a waste of your money. Technically the game is horrid, grinding to 10-15fps on high end machines. Gameplay-wise the game is horrid with early 2000's style wooden npcs and horrific off-ship play. Did I mention the bugs? You'll spend more time trying to figure out how to work around bugs than you will actually playing the game.

    If you want an X game go play X3 TC. This is digital garbage, not an X game.

    If, however, slamming your dick in a car door for an afternoon sounds appealing then this just might be the game for you.    … Expand
  24. shea1980
    May 19, 2014
    1
    Where can i start,The game has so many problems,If anyone played X3 TC,you would know that it was a proper pc game,with X rebirth it was defo designed for Xbox and PS3,The graphics are good but the preformance is terrible and i do have a fast machine.Saying that the new beta patch adds alot of things but still it is a turd.Never ever again will i pre-order a game.I bought the CE of theWhere can i start,The game has so many problems,If anyone played X3 TC,you would know that it was a proper pc game,with X rebirth it was defo designed for Xbox and PS3,The graphics are good but the preformance is terrible and i do have a fast machine.Saying that the new beta patch adds alot of things but still it is a turd.Never ever again will i pre-order a game.I bought the CE of the game for 65 euro and i should have just thrown that money in the fire.Guys take my advise stay away from X rebirth,Maybe in a year or so it might be a small bit better.… Expand
  25. kerric
    May 5, 2014
    0
    The only thing this game shares with the legendary X series is the name. A more appropriate title would have been X - Stillbirth. Practically everything that made the previous X games great is missing.
  26. eduardvictor
    May 3, 2014
    0
    Garbage. I've played ALL the previous games in the series, i have a few hundred hours in X1 and X2, and a few THOUSAND in X3, X3 AP and X3 TC, in this game I have a little over 20 and I am already **** sick of all the **** boring gameplay, console interface, clunky controls and horrible bugs it has. Avoid at all costs, I wish I could get my 60 euros back and get into Elite Dangerous Beta instead.
  27. SolomonKane
    Apr 26, 2014
    1
    Crap game. Do not buy. A complete wash of money. Crap game. Do not buy. A complete wash of money.Crap game. Do not buy. A complete wash of money. Poopie Game
  28. redalert3084
    Apr 21, 2014
    1
    I per ordered this game and waited this long to write a review.

    I gave EGOSOFT plenty of time to offer something as a way of compensating those who bought an unusable game and had to wait for updates. and we got nothing. So this game gets the lowest score i can give. I'll even come back and change my score if EGOSOFT starts to compensate for the broken game.
  29. Tibster
    Apr 18, 2014
    0
    I really tried to play this game, but had to give up after som hours, but the game was realy playing against you. Sad to say, but avoid this game at all cost !!
  30. viewtiful1337
    Apr 15, 2014
    0
    h bin der Meinung vieler der vorherigen Rezensenten, daher fasse ich mich sehr kurz.

    Dieses Spiel in der jetzigen Form raus zu bringen ist einfach nur frech, dreist und unverschämt. Ein halbfertiges Produkt, welches entgegen der Behauptungen in den diversen Interviews im Grunde genauso schwer und unübersichtlich vom Einstieg her ist. Das Tutorial selbst ist ein Witz, man wird von A nach    h bin der Meinung vieler der vorherigen Rezensenten, daher fasse ich mich sehr kurz.

    Dieses Spiel in der jetzigen Form raus zu bringen ist einfach nur frech, dreist und unverschämt. Ein halbfertiges Produkt, welches entgegen der Behauptungen in den diversen Interviews im Grunde genauso schwer und unübersichtlich vom Einstieg her ist. Das Tutorial selbst ist ein Witz, man wird von A nach B gescheucht, Verständnis für Zusammenhänge muss man sich selbst zusammensuchen.

    Bugs ohne Ende, selbst bei einer Tutorialmission fehlen Missionsbeschreibungen und genaue Orders. Stellt man sich in einer Station direkt vor ein Lüftungsgitter und öffnet dieses, wird man wie von einem Gabelstapler von dem Gitter in die Luft gehoben und in eine Position gebraucht, in der man sich nicht mehr bewegen kann - natürlich kann man das Gitter auch nicht wieder schließen - hier hilft dann nur der Shortcut um sich direkt ins Raumschiff versetzen zu lassen.

    Die Grafik ist im Weltraum ganz ordentlich, auf den Stationen allerdings unterirdisch schlecht. Außerdem ist "Leben" auf den Stationen wirklich was Anderes. Ein paar lieblos hingeklatschte NPCs und das wars. Der Aufbau ist zudem in den Innenräumen immer gleich. Ich könnte mit Kritik nun hier noch gefühlte Ewigkeiten fortfahren, aber ich habe keine Lust mehr, mich mit dem Spiel zu beschäftigen und Ihr sicher nicht aufs Lesen.

    Mein Fazit: Ich bin unsagbar enttäuscht von Egosoft. Alles im Vorfeld war nur PR-Gelaber. Ich sehe auch den Grund, warum keine Demo und kein ordentliches, unabhängiges Review da war / gewünscht war. Ich kann nur jedem raten, sich das Geld zu sparen - das Spiel ist es einfach nicht wert.
    Mein Wunsch, ein kleines deutsches Entwicklerstudio zu supporten, war leider übermächtig der Vernunft. Nie wieder.
    Kauft lieber eurer Freundin / eurem Freund was Nettes, da hab ihr und er/sie mehr von.    … Expand
  31. faceless-1
    Apr 8, 2014
    0
    Uhhh this game is really bad. It really tries to be worst game this year i think. This game is so mega bugged that i cannot believe that they released such a broken game.
  32. Stalkermaster
    Apr 8, 2014
    2
    For me to rate a game 2 or less it has to have ALOT of things wrong with it.
    It has to be a broken, misguided and just WTF game that I am playing. Well this is all three of those and more.
    When I first learned about X Rebirth I was astonished at the trailers and gameplay I was shown, it was being called the Rebirth of Space Sims as they come back into todays modern age. This game is a    For me to rate a game 2 or less it has to have ALOT of things wrong with it.
    It has to be a broken, misguided and just WTF game that I am playing. Well this is all three of those and more.
    When I first learned about X Rebirth I was astonished at the trailers and gameplay I was shown, it was being called the Rebirth of Space Sims as they come back into todays modern age.
    This game is a kick in the stomach to the above. Usually games with low scores are just called bandwagon jumpers, but for once I agree with most of what is being said. When I brought this game as a birthday present last year I was stoked, I was looking forward to trying this brand new game that would remind me of the old X wing games or just any space game in general, upon installing it I pressed play, but the game did not open, not only did it not open, but I received no crash message or errors, so I continued to keep pressing play and ended up racking about 10 minute's of gameplay just by pressing play. A couple of weeks later they released a patch which finally gives you a message stating about the crash and what is wrong. After spending about 2-3 hours trying all these different things to fix it I gave up, What I had was something I thought I could never play, until two months ago when I finally managed to get it to work. What did I get once I got it to work, well I got broken combat, ugly Npcs, some of the Worst Voices I have ever heard IE "Show me your wares" in a horrific voice, a got ugly indoor sections, ugly Npcs and a constant frame rate of 10-20 even though I can run most games on 60 fps like Battlefield 4 on ultra, Titan fall on ultra, crisis 3 on ultra and well you get the story, even after finally spending a hour finally getting somewhere I decide to go to sleep happy that I have finally got the game to work. The next day I wake up, have some nice breakfast, go onto my pc and launch the game, guess what happened? A save game bug wiped my progress, so I shut the game down contact steam support and got a refund, I was too disappointed with the game I deleted it and will probably never get the game. Well I usually say what the game does right and wrong here but ill leave it to the pros and cons of this terrible game

    Pro's
    + Space looks nice
    + The Ships look nice
    + Has the capabilities to be something amazing
    + Not playing the game

    Cons
    - Everything else
    - Terrible voice acting
    - Terrible graphics of both the NPC's and the indoor sections
    - Broken game, terrible Frame rate
    - I got it refunded (Yep that's right, it was that bad)
    - Still broken in many areas

    I rate this 1.5/10 but I choose two because I am nice
    There is also other accounts of them lying about the game through their trailers and it is misleading and well that's it to be honest, avoid this for a few 3-4 years until Modder's do something about it, I may pick it up for $5, even though I generally do not, but I really wanted to like this game, but it may just never happen    … Expand
  33. Thor32123
    Mar 30, 2014
    2
    It has elements that showed potential but falls short, the game might entertain you for a little bit but it's not worth getting and the game has a major problem with the graphics, it take time for your surroundings to appear and sometimes even longer for the characters, so my advise is to save your money for a better game.
  34. SuperGod
    Mar 21, 2014
    0
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    WARNING DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    --------------------------------------- The problems of this game will never get fixed. They will fix the bugs but not the bad features. Do not buy this game. Just don't. It may look pretty, and it may sound interesting but it is a disaster. I tried this game and played to see all the "features" and the    ---------------------------------------
    WARNING DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    The problems of this game will never get fixed. They will fix the bugs but not the bad features.

    Do not buy this game. Just don't. It may look pretty, and it may sound interesting but it is a disaster. I tried this game and played to see all the "features" and the game is just so bad. The AI is non-existent, Ships can fly through station Graphics. Your ship cannot take damage from collisions. The highway system is just bad. Highways in space is a stupid idea anyways. There is no real challenge in space battles. Your ship is the strongest of all ships your cl****. Larger ships are too stupid to fight you. You can just hide in their hanger bay and shoot them for as long as it takes until they blow up. You are forced to have a geriatric zombie for a co pilot that wont shut up. There are maybe 3 upgrades for your ship. You are only allowed to fly one ship, you can never get another ship or fly another type of ship. There is only one flyable ship in the game. You cannot make trades in your ship. You must get others to trade for you. The games trading system is broken. Making a simple trade transaction takes too long (hours). More complex features are missing. The economic system is simplistic at its most complex. Nothing interesting ever happens in this game. There are no random events. There are no powerful enemies. The story is bad. The voice acting is bad. The human NPCs look like filth. The The alien models are all the most basic and uninspired.

    The makers of this game are **** holes. The Egosoft website is filled with mindless yes men. They will make fun of you if you don't like their game. The egosoft CEO is a jerk. He mocks the fans and tells them what they liked is irrelevant. The company and the CEO forces its employes to troll the Egosoft forums and the internet and post good things about the game. They will outright lie about features the game does not have just to make a sale. Everyone posting a 10 out of 10 on here and giving this game rave reviews are just company shills and trolls. They have no honer. They will mock anyone who liked the older games. They will mock anyone who does not like this current game of theirs. They make fun of Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous. They Ban people on their forums for telling them that their game is trash. They will not listen to any bug reports. They will not get rid of "features" that their old fan base does not like.

    AVOID THIS COMPANY AND THE GAME.    … Expand
  35. Foam
    Mar 20, 2014
    1
    "Simply Trash"
    That statement best describes X-Rebirth. Long story short: They took most features from the previous games that fans loved, gutted them, and tried to automate or simplify everything in a catastrophic mess. Some 10/10 reviews on here say it's only a vocal minority that dislike the game. This is a load of **** as if you check the Steamgraph data on it, you'll find that    "Simply Trash"
    That statement best describes X-Rebirth. Long story short: They took most features from the previous games that fans loved, gutted them, and tried to automate or simplify everything in a catastrophic mess. Some 10/10 reviews on here say it's only a vocal minority that dislike the game. This is a load of **** as if you check the Steamgraph data on it, you'll find that literally 0 people have played the game for months. If Rebirth was so great as these reviewers say, then people would still be plugging hundreds of hours into it.    … Expand
  36. purplekrunk
    Mar 18, 2014
    0
    This game is TERRIBLE...DO NOT PURCHASE IT....I have played all of the x series and enjoyed them immensely, but this is the WORST of the series. Terrible broken English makes it very clear that this game is created by a Russian, or other non English speaking person. Graphics and maps and Hangars and general localities are repetitive again and again and again you go through the same exactThis game is TERRIBLE...DO NOT PURCHASE IT....I have played all of the x series and enjoyed them immensely, but this is the WORST of the series. Terrible broken English makes it very clear that this game is created by a Russian, or other non English speaking person. Graphics and maps and Hangars and general localities are repetitive again and again and again you go through the same exact looking stations, and see the same face with different colors, and hear the same terrible accents and bad grammar.
    Flight control System is ok, but key assignments are so limited compared to the original game that you might as well forget it.
    If you bought this game because you thought you were going to get to fly a bunch of ships and build trade lanes and create a presence in the universe....well you bought the wrong game...go back and get X3TC or X3 Reunion MUCH more fun games, despite the limitations.
    let me tell you something about CRASHES....omg...constantly...sometimes the trade screen freezes, the only way out is to ALT TAB and then ALT TAB AGAIN....ugh....sometimes it just crashes in the middle of flying sometimes when you dock....it is GARBAGE....
    I could go on, but as a gamer starting in 1983 I believe that my opinion carries a great deal of weight, and this game 10 thumbs DOWN....garbage....    … Expand
  37. Partisan
    Mar 16, 2014
    0
    Вам продают новую машину без мотора, какая будет у вас реакция заплатив за нее 100% и что за новая мода продавать не готовую игру (альфу) по стоимости целой?
  38. Mine_opinion
    Mar 11, 2014
    0
    I've already commented on this game, but after playing it further I have to comment again. It is not like any previous X universe game, it is absolutely terrible, if you want an actual X universe game if you haven't already, get an earlier game, you will not be disappointed. If you are thinking about getting this game because you liked the previous games do not get this one. This game isI've already commented on this game, but after playing it further I have to comment again. It is not like any previous X universe game, it is absolutely terrible, if you want an actual X universe game if you haven't already, get an earlier game, you will not be disappointed. If you are thinking about getting this game because you liked the previous games do not get this one. This game is not like the previous games, it is like a bad Freelancer idea of the X universe. Really bad!! If you want meaningful system maps that mean anything, good look with that, and that's after you find them. It's awful,don't do it, I wish that they hadn't. They managed to take a superb game and completely mess it up. System maps are terrible, navigation is terrible, on station graphics are terrible, is there a pattern here? If you want to play a space sim go get Elite, if you can:] then play all previous X universe games, but not this one. The first is better than this and it was released in 1999, I know, I played it in 1999. I have a high end system and this game is not good, I'm putting it politely, it can't even use two graphics cards in parallel, odd considering all descent motherboards come with two full speed slots, and they have done for at least the last four years! This game has left me feeling so let down after experiencing so much with the previous games. If the developers are listening, go back and build on the previous games, forget Freelancer it wasn't even close to Elite. The X universe took Elite to the next level, almost, there is room for improvement :]… Expand
  39. mustafa6734573
    Feb 21, 2014
    0
    Thank God for "illegal" download, I would not buy this game even to torture someone I hate.

    Controls are so hard you can't shoot straight, cant select, cargo is looted with ramming into it, every single thing has a special kind of torture sequence. Every bar is the same, every station is the same (only the outer shape is different-sometimes), every ship inner **** is the same and that    Thank God for "illegal" download, I would not buy this game even to torture someone I hate.

    Controls are so hard you can't shoot straight, cant select, cargo is looted with ramming into it, every single thing has a special kind of torture sequence. Every bar is the same, every station is the same (only the outer shape is different-sometimes), every ship inner **** is the same and that is all u have in the game. Its not complex, its just ridiculous, unplayable on every possible angle. On a scale of 0 to 100, this game gets a magnificent score of -858993460.

    May you rest in peace now X, we all loved you and still do.    … Expand
  40. Shadix
    Feb 13, 2014
    0
    I cried for the first 15 minutes while playing this game. Seven years of waiting and all I got is a completely rubbish game full of bugs, glitch, bad performance, etc, you name it.

    Campaign is broken with bad scripting. Trading doesn't work, stuck in the skunk forever, and I can't even tell my other ships to go to a place where I want.. For every 1 hour of campaign, i spend 40    I cried for the first 15 minutes while playing this game. Seven years of waiting and all I got is a completely rubbish game full of bugs, glitch, bad performance, etc, you name it.

    Campaign is broken with bad scripting. Trading doesn't work, stuck in the skunk forever, and I can't even tell my other ships to go to a place where I want..

    For every 1 hour of campaign, i spend 40 minutes searching solution or editing savegame due to many,many bugs.

    I miss my X3:TC.. This game is simply frustating, not enjoying at all. There's no fun in this game!    … Expand
  41. DonGarcon
    Feb 10, 2014
    0
    Bought this game in december and now in february still no patch that fixes game crash. Effectively I have wasted money on unplayable game that doest even work! Over the years I have bought and played a lot of games and this is the first time I experience so poorly developed product. I wish someone sue developers for this scam. It really is scam when you pay for something that doesnt workBought this game in december and now in february still no patch that fixes game crash. Effectively I have wasted money on unplayable game that doest even work! Over the years I have bought and played a lot of games and this is the first time I experience so poorly developed product. I wish someone sue developers for this scam. It really is scam when you pay for something that doesnt work and you can't even get a refund!… Expand
  42. Iracundus
    Feb 2, 2014
    0
    This game was in no way ready for release. Aside from the bugs and freezing such as during the station interiors, there are so many bad design decisions. The cockpit view fills my POV with needless clutter and obstructs the view of outside space. What is the point of having awesome space environments if you are looking at it through a tiny window?

    Then there is the whole nonsensical    This game was in no way ready for release. Aside from the bugs and freezing such as during the station interiors, there are so many bad design decisions. The cockpit view fills my POV with needless clutter and obstructs the view of outside space. What is the point of having awesome space environments if you are looking at it through a tiny window?

    Then there is the whole nonsensical station interior gameplay where your character wanders around and scoops up anything not nailed down. That isn't trading. That's scavenging and stealing. Instead of the convenient comm based interaction with stations or mission givers, or being able to see what is for sale at a station, we have to land and wander the station looking for that one person that we need. Only then we find out they are not in this section of the station and we have to get back into space and land at another landing pad and repeat the same process.

    The control interface clearly shows this was designed first and foremost with consoles and any PC release was an afterthought. Paging through multiple menus just to do a simple and common task is infuriatingly annoying.

    Suffice to say, that X Rebirth has managed to take just about anything that worked with X: Terran Conflict and previous X games and thoroughly break it or render it a chore rather than enjoyable gameplay.    … Expand
  43. Arctarus
    Jan 28, 2014
    1
    After a full month of playtime and countless crashes on my high end pc system, I can safely say that X rebirth gives a revolting feeling of being let down by the game maker. For years, Egosoft has been making the X series. I've been trying to play them, and expected the latest to be no different. Having said this, I certainly didn't expect it to be this broken. And so, I can only agreeAfter a full month of playtime and countless crashes on my high end pc system, I can safely say that X rebirth gives a revolting feeling of being let down by the game maker. For years, Egosoft has been making the X series. I've been trying to play them, and expected the latest to be no different. Having said this, I certainly didn't expect it to be this broken. And so, I can only agree to the numerous harsh critics about not only the technicalities and mechanics being flawed in the game where one cannot do much at all with the state of the game. It's really not a game anymore, but some parts here and there, attached together by fragile coding without proper testings on high end systems. You wonder what a company like Egosoft put into a 7 years plan to make X rebirth to the state it is at release is beyond words. To rely and exploit solely on the modding community to save their own franchise is appalling and truly demeaning. There is really no excuse for this sort of base behavior. An existing ethic committee should be enforcing laws to prevent this from happening just as much as they have decided to prevent piracy. 4 points for bringing a broken game to the table and -3 points for exploiting the modding community to save their "dignity"… Expand
  44. 1nsider
    Jan 25, 2014
    2
    Not a way to treat a hardcore open-universe space series. And not a good action either. If you're into serious space exploring sim - better try previous titles from X-series, this game is practically born dead.
  45. morvain
    Jan 15, 2014
    2
    I have played this game for several hours. the sad thing is that, the longer i played this game the more bad things i found out about it. it is like they left out each good thing they had in the x3 series and replaced it with bad things.
    The cockpit is blocking half of your field of view. there are thousands of bugs, menus dissapear, trading does not work properly, there are less ships,    I have played this game for several hours. the sad thing is that, the longer i played this game the more bad things i found out about it. it is like they left out each good thing they had in the x3 series and replaced it with bad things.
    The cockpit is blocking half of your field of view. there are thousands of bugs, menus dissapear, trading does not work properly, there are less ships, less sectors, less action, less available commands and of course less fun. The only improvement i found are the graphics.
    please dont waste your time playing this game.    … Expand
  46. urpoturpo
    Jan 13, 2014
    0
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    Uhh. Just don't. Do not. Stay away.
    ........................You've been warned.
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  47. RedRhoc
    Jan 11, 2014
    3
    I really want to like this game.... but it's awful. The graphics are decent, the UI is hard to navigate, story is below average, performance is bad, gameplay is... not good and the voice acting is horrible. The pretty screenshots look tempting - but avoid buying this game.
  48. Arminius
    Jan 6, 2014
    3
    After I bought "Schicksalsklinge HD" in summer, I thought there will never be a game again that is that much flawed, bugged and unfinished at the time of release.
    Here I stand corrected.
    This wasn´t even a feature-completed Alpha when shipped, and it will take at least one more year of heavy patching to finish it. Sadly, I don´t believe it will live up to the expectations even when it´s done.
  49. JCM-disappointe
    Jan 3, 2014
    0
    Unplayable. My first computer game (I am 67) is a huge disappointment following a strong recommendation by a friend. The game needs to have much work done on it.....maybe by release .100 it will work. Very poor. No more EGO SOFT products for me.
  50. WhatszThis
    Dec 31, 2013
    1
    i really liked the other x-games, but this one is just aweful!!!

    -Buggy (plot stopper, crashes, fps drops), just unplayable
    -key features of the game dont work yet (like trading)
    -very ugly characters and animations
    -most of the game is just for show and not part of the simulation
    - u can only fly one ship
  51. IceBlood
    Dec 31, 2013
    1
    Awful game where even the game engine is half made and broken. The UI is horrible, graphics is 10 years behind average and game is full of bugs. I WAS a huge fan of X-series and I have all the previous games from X-BTF. X Rebirth is just unplayable, unfinished and bad designed game. It feels more scam than finished game. I have no idea what Egosoft did during the 7 developing years but IAwful game where even the game engine is half made and broken. The UI is horrible, graphics is 10 years behind average and game is full of bugs. I WAS a huge fan of X-series and I have all the previous games from X-BTF. X Rebirth is just unplayable, unfinished and bad designed game. It feels more scam than finished game. I have no idea what Egosoft did during the 7 developing years but I believe they did everything else than code for this game.… Expand
  52. Darkgungrave
    Dec 30, 2013
    0
    I want my money back for this game ...

    i play all X games but this is a bu ll sh it

    i feel me you hit my face so deep the characters from Gothic 1 are better this
  53. TheAtomicOption
    Dec 29, 2013
    3
    This game has some incredibly fun moments that are absolutely ruined by the ridiculous number of bugs, terrible UI, and lack of information about how the UI works.

    This game has some moments that reminded me of the great classic Freelancer. The graphics are decent. You can trade stuff between zones to make money. You use highways and gates and it takes time to get around which makes    This game has some incredibly fun moments that are absolutely ruined by the ridiculous number of bugs, terrible UI, and lack of information about how the UI works.

    This game has some moments that reminded me of the great classic Freelancer. The graphics are decent. You can trade stuff between zones to make money. You use highways and gates and it takes time to get around which makes the universe feel big.

    But you can't trade, cause your freighter won't follow orders, and your computer only remembers available trades for an hour. There are some important orders for crew and captains that just plain aren't there (like hold position or goto zone X without me). Some main plot missions can't be finished without editing your save file manually, and the game occasionally hangs or crashes straight to the desktop.

    The combat is probably the best part. Fly around like in freelancer and shoot stuff. But boarding capital ships is pretty broken. Often your marines will all die while you're following the instructions perfectly with no explanation.

    Bottom line: this game has the potential to be great, but it needs another year of quality development time before it'll be worth the money.    … Expand
  54. gamiseta
    Dec 27, 2013
    2
    This game is a nice shoot 'em up or a nice arcade game, you know with sticks and buttons and everything. If you are looking for a game in which you can pilot a giant spaceship with all those functions, technical gibberish and stuff you have to try another game. The space simulator you are looking for is at another castle. Nice graphics though but I think that's it.
  55. knightal
    Dec 27, 2013
    1
    The worst game for FPS every graphic setting turned off and still runs like a dog. (Sorry dogs), bugs too numerous to mention.

    As one person said in the forum "If you got this game for Xmas then you must have been real naughty"
  56. AdrianChiru
    Dec 23, 2013
    4
    What should have been a revolution turned into a devolution. Egosoft promises of a living world that moves and changes with you still remain promises under a million of bugs. The game has received a lot of patches and will receive a lot more but I fear this will not fix the bad design decisions already made.
  57. bosh-tet
    Dec 21, 2013
    1
    Graphics are shockingly poor, ships and stations are all one copy-pasted location, the NPC characters are hideous (see Gamespot review for piccies) and the game is STILL impossible to complete in a legitimate way despite 20 patches to date. Fought for a refund from Steam for this one. Avoid. 1 point for the ship vistas in space.
  58. Pannon
    Dec 20, 2013
    4
    I reserved my review, until a throrough play-through of the game, trying to understand all the underlying mechanics and trying to understand how to play this game. I have finished the campaign (with the aid of mods) as well as I free-played for over 40hours to see how far I can take it and waited for the patches to fix the most crucial game-breaking bugs, that crippled the entire game andI reserved my review, until a throrough play-through of the game, trying to understand all the underlying mechanics and trying to understand how to play this game. I have finished the campaign (with the aid of mods) as well as I free-played for over 40hours to see how far I can take it and waited for the patches to fix the most crucial game-breaking bugs, that crippled the entire game and the plot.
    Unfortunately, even with my hardest of trying, I still can't give more than 4 out of 10, because it's not just the bugs. It's the design and features. I don't have to mention the taking up 1/3 of the entire screen with no display of useful info, beside my little HUD in the right corner, 80% of the time saying "no signal".
    There is no useful map of any sort, just sometimes the little HUD shows the zone map for a few seconds, when I click on a highway symbol or space station. Probably another feature, but bugged still. I'm no version 1.21, and while the performance improved and a bunch of bugs killed, the game is still a chore to play as well as the economy of the game dies off and ships will get stuck doing nothing if you let the game run for several hours. The core feature of the game supposed to be the economy, and yet it's dysfunctional to a point, that you soon will realize, that all the empire and space building you were planning all along (after the campaign or free play) may not going to work and you won't be able to pull it off, unless you constantly cheat with a save game editor. Regardless which sector or faction you are dealing with, you will run into a problem of the producing space stations starving of resources and refuse to sell their products, or perhaps their freighters will be stuck with a full load of products, that cannot be sold and they will be idling in space.
    Other times you come back to a favorite station to buy a product, only to realize, that the loading dock or whatever attached to the space station is halfway destroyed. Not by enemy vessels, but possibly just a ship getting stuck inside the station model and it desperately keeps ramming the station from the inside (of the 3D model) and the game registers the bumps as weapon hits. Another major crippling "design feature" is, when you visit stations and scan the space factory, the information regarding this factory and prices disappear after a few hours, while you are in another system. How am I supposed to play a trading game, if my contacts and product locations keep disappearing?
    See, I'm not even gonna get into the bugs and the performance problems and the highway nuisances. I'm just mentioning the "design choices", how they are alone making the game unplayable.
    I just can't play this like that. It's like playing a first person shooter game, where your allies shoot you dead before you begin the campaign. Or your gun fires backwards or you stuck in crouch mode in a place, where you supposed to be running. Or your top-view strategy game won't let you use a mouse.
    Whoever designed this game should really quit designing anything. His or her vision of what a playable game is just not sustainable and not desired by 99% of the people.    … Expand
  59. rohannon_cl10
    Dec 19, 2013
    0
    X-Rebirth try again! More like X-Afterbirth as this is the bloody mangled remains after the best part has been removed. I have spent years playing the X series and this is a travesty of the greatest kind. About the only thing in common with the other games is the names of the various factions.

    Autopilot non-existent Maps non-existent M.S.C.I. (The single most unique aspect of the X    X-Rebirth try again! More like X-Afterbirth as this is the bloody mangled remains after the best part has been removed. I have spent years playing the X series and this is a travesty of the greatest kind. About the only thing in common with the other games is the names of the various factions.

    Autopilot non-existent
    Maps non-existent
    M.S.C.I. (The single most unique aspect of the X games) non-existent
    Plot non-existent
    Fleets of player ships non-existent
    Enjoyment non-existent

    Bugs Overabundant
    Cookie cutter stations Overabundant
    motion sickness inducing cut scenes Overabundant and unable to be skipped
    useless fluff ships that fly in an endless circle and kill your frame rate well to keep with the space theme there are less stars in existence.

    All in all this game is a useless waste of computer space.    … Expand
  60. fluffa
    Dec 19, 2013
    0
    here is the lesson on how to not make a game for somebody with a brain, its aim at the mass market of none thinkers. A money grab at its very best. Egosoft just blow away a hard earned fan base. commercial suicide
  61. steelgrey75
    Dec 16, 2013
    4
    Well I personally have been massively disappointed with this game. I can accept that they wanted to make the game a little more action orientated, and that they thought streamlining it would make the game playable to more users, but I can't accept the end product.
    I have played for 60 hours, free play, I stopped campaign after about 2 hours of play due to bugs and the storyline is boring    Well I personally have been massively disappointed with this game. I can accept that they wanted to make the game a little more action orientated, and that they thought streamlining it would make the game playable to more users, but I can't accept the end product.
    I have played for 60 hours, free play, I stopped campaign after about 2 hours of play due to bugs and the storyline is boring and uninspiring. In those 60 hours I tried to establish a trade empire, just as I used to in the other X games, and build up a fleet. The trading is tedious, having to constantly fly around looking for offers that expire after an hour or so and need to be done again. The money earned from trading is insignificant to boarding and selling captured ships, even long range scanning earns you more money than trading does, so whats the point in it?
    Fleets are useless, with no offensive commands or navigational orders. The ships just follow you along through enemy sectors getting blow up by fighters.
    Boarding has been made easier to the point that is no challenge. There is not an enemy in the game that makes me afraid, not one. Boarding used to be about careful planning and detail, gathering ships together, massing the ships at as et point and then executing your boarding. It was hard, it was dangerous, but it was fantastic when you pulled off a good one. I don't get any feeling of satisfaction from boarding in Rebirth, its mindlessly simplistic.
    The UI is horrific, even with a 360 pad, with multiple layers in radial menus. They said they made it this way because the old UI was bad, it was a hundred times better than what it is in this game, it couldnt have been done any worse.
    Station interiors. Well the idea sounds good, and done right it could be amazing. What we ended up with was a load of cut and paste nasty looking station interiors, populated by static NPC's that look like they come from the PS1. Conversation mini games, crawling through air ducts to open red boxes, pointlessly silly things that simply do not belong in a space sim.
    Space. Well its pretty enough, its not amazing but it is certainly good. The stations look good. Combat seems great at first, more like an ace combat style. Soon though it becomes apparent that your never going to have to face that many enemies at once, just small groups, mostly single fighters spaced far apart. They also are very easy and you kill them with no harm to yourself. Not having any control over targeting is bad too as you frequently lose the lock on the target you want and often then lose track of it completely. If you attacked from anywhere other than directly in front of you you'll never know its coming until you are hit.
    The skunk. One ship need not be that bad if done properly, with a large array of upgrades and weapons to choose from it can be very good actually. Yet we ended up with hardly none of that. The choice of upgrades and weapons is pathetic. The is welcome back, but in doing so all other views have been dumped and you can only look straight ahead which kills the immersion and makes awareness impossible, you dont even know whats behind you. Of course I have to mention the "copilot" whose only piloting abilities are to dock the ship. Mindless lines of drivel spouting out of her mouth, an irritating and pointless distraction.
    Exploration is made all that much harder with the new map that is very difficult to read and is not interactive, not even allowing you to select a target which in busy systems is sorely missed as finding some ships can be a nightmare.
    There are those that say in months to come it will be better, and a lot of bugs ironed out and improvements made. However I'm reviewing the game today, not in the future, and today I think its worth no more than 4/10.    … Expand
  62. larzslayer
    Dec 12, 2013
    1
    I have played x2/x3 countless hours, I played this game for around 40 hours and I was thinking its an interesting beta except its not.
    Visually its nice 8/10
    controls for flight solid 7/10 drones kinda a cool new way to use them 6/10 until your ship is destroyed because your in a drone lack of everything else user interface controls for commands for ships 0/10 there are really none    I have played x2/x3 countless hours, I played this game for around 40 hours and I was thinking its an interesting beta except its not.
    Visually its nice 8/10
    controls for flight solid 7/10
    drones kinda a cool new way to use them 6/10 until your ship is destroyed because your in a drone

    lack of everything else
    user interface controls for commands for ships 0/10 there are really none and the one thats there only half works add to squad however remove from squad and they still follow you and tell you there do not have fuel and still follow you glitchy
    missions 2/10 glitchy at best the pay and the difficulty have no bearing on anything there is no real briefing of what to do
    weapons 5 weapons total with no upgrade ability 1/10
    number of ships i can fly 1... 0/10
    how many times did i lose all controls and have to restart in 40 hours about 8 GLITCHY 0/10
    how many times did the game crash for no reason in 40 hours 5 0/10 UNSTABLE
    oh my combat targeting issues 0/10 for targeting why, you lock a target and then all ships blink and all locks gone and theres no hot key to lock targets or cycle them and with all them as red triangles whos closest?
    and killing drones and losing standing with everyone around even groups that hate the owner of said dead drones. 0/10
    but a show stopper is the stations it was removed after x2 because it slows the game down and players lose interest try looking for a single dealer selling 1 upgrade item in a random system random station on a random floor no maps and 10 other people selling things that are close but not the right one big upset there 0/10
    As a hard core X player if i remember i have this in 1-3 years i might try to update it and play it again and probably mod the heck out of it
    Overall
    no choices, slow play, glitchy, crashy, non x style game.
    DO NOT BUY IT YET SAVE YOUR MONEY TILL LATER
    1/10 overall due to cool graphics    … Expand
  63. WingedAnomaly
    Dec 12, 2013
    2
    Hey, it's more accessible than earlier X titles!
    ...which would be nice if it ran at more than ten frames per second on high end systems.
    The performance is a bloody atrocity. A machine that can giggle its way through Assassin's Creed IV should NOT be showstopped by this game. It's pretty, but it's not THAT pretty, particularly at minimum bloody settings.
  64. jjalison
    Dec 12, 2013
    2
    Most games release with a few bugs. In the bug range from simple ants to gigantic roaches. This game has a swarm of roaches. The flying kind that lay eggs. The bugs even have bugs....
  65. Squarebasher
    Dec 12, 2013
    1
    Don't buy this game, I watched the pre-release videos, claiming that the game would be easier to use, it is not. The interface is completely frustrating, X terran conflict was far better, I really wish i had not wasted £40.00. The interactions with the NPCs are just irritating and really serve no function that a menu could not. Show me your skills please, is not only repetitive but tooDon't buy this game, I watched the pre-release videos, claiming that the game would be easier to use, it is not. The interface is completely frustrating, X terran conflict was far better, I really wish i had not wasted £40.00. The interactions with the NPCs are just irritating and really serve no function that a menu could not. Show me your skills please, is not only repetitive but too loud in comparison to the rest of the sounds. After the 1.19 update I thought I would give it another go, but have been stressed and frustrated for 30 minutes and cannot take anymore, I have never reviewed a game before, but I am so annoyed, that I have for this game just to make sure players are warned about it.

    Why when you have a small studio such as this with a relatively active community did egosoft not release this as a cheap alpha and get feedback and bug finding for free, if they paid there testers then i would ask for your money back.

    There are 2 good new things, the highways and the being able to target individual items on large ships and stations, and thats it.    … Expand
  66. Vergeh
    Dec 11, 2013
    3
    Oh, Egosoft.

    I really, really wanted to like this game. I am a big fan of the X series, and I've been looking forward to this title... but really, Egosoft. This game is a perfect example of good intentions with bad execution. They set out to make the space trader sim more immersive and less... flowcharty. Where do I begin? I guess I'll cover the things that CAN'T be fixed with a patch.    Oh, Egosoft.

    I really, really wanted to like this game. I am a big fan of the X series, and I've been looking forward to this title... but really, Egosoft. This game is a perfect example of good intentions with bad execution. They set out to make the space trader sim more immersive and less... flowcharty. Where do I begin? I guess I'll cover the things that CAN'T be fixed with a patch.

    - The space stations are really, really samey. Like, I think that there are three station maps total for the hundreds of ingame stations. Should have been procedurally generated, or cut entirely. I think the idea of disembarking your ship to do station/planet missions is a brilliant idea for a space sim, but this is truly terrible execution. Going on the SAME stations every twenty minutes to do basic maintenance and resupply is grindy and terrible. Also enjoy the "where the hell is the vendor type I want" mambo.

    - They claim to have made the interface easier, but have made so many confusing unexplained oversights that I can't call the interface anything but regressive. If there hadn't been a mission to guide you exactly through freighter trading, I never would have figured it out. And I still don't know if there's even an inventory screen for the items you pick up while wandering around stations.

    - The station design is truly baffling. Was it really necessary to have six docking points on the same station, each with a different array of vendors? How about one docking point, with a menu of items for sale, with the option, not the necessity, of leaving your ship? I find it hard to believe that an advanced spacefaring culture doesn't have online storefronts.

    - Finding and equipping weapons in X was always a huge pain, but they've gone and oversimplified it the other way. I really don't mind stock layout in paid 'tiers' of upgrades for the ships I'm never gonna fly, but really, five weapons for the main ship?

    The sound is gorgeous, the universe feels a lot more colourful, diverse and expansive, and the ship models are attractive, but that is not enough to save this game. I cannot recommend this game to anyone, and it really bothers me because I know one truly bad game can sink a company, and a franchise.

    So everyone go buy X3. Much better game, and maybe it'll convince Egosoft to take smaller, less ambitious steps in the future.    … Expand
  67. Mindstar48
    Dec 11, 2013
    1
    There is a very good reason this has a bad rating, it's because its BAD, I pre ordered this junk and sorely wish I hadn't numerous bugs, glitches a boring campaign ridiculous system requirements for it to run well a boring and stupid story and bad controls make it a chore to play, not fun at all and i would rather be working than playing this junk. The only good thing? It works whichThere is a very good reason this has a bad rating, it's because its BAD, I pre ordered this junk and sorely wish I hadn't numerous bugs, glitches a boring campaign ridiculous system requirements for it to run well a boring and stupid story and bad controls make it a chore to play, not fun at all and i would rather be working than playing this junk. The only good thing? It works which actually is a bad thing because of how bad this game is.… Expand
  68. ixion76
    Dec 11, 2013
    0
    das spiel ist das letzte es ist einfach kein x spiel mehr alles was spaß gemacht hat wurde aus dem spiel entfernt ich frage mich was egosoft in den letzten 7 jahren gemacht hat oder auch nicht
  69. MechMK1
    Dec 10, 2013
    0
    This is simply the most horrible part of the X series ever. It's like they thought "What are the good things about the X series? Why do our customers love our games?" and changed exactly that.

    My bad score does not take all the bugs, flaws or technical difficulties into account. Those could all be patched out (someday). Rather, this game is defective by design. There are so many things    This is simply the most horrible part of the X series ever. It's like they thought "What are the good things about the X series? Why do our customers love our games?" and changed exactly that.

    My bad score does not take all the bugs, flaws or technical difficulties into account. Those could all be patched out (someday). Rather, this game is defective by design. There are so many things that just make this game a horrible experience to play, not just for X-veterans.

    A big part of my experience consisted of walking through copy-pasted levels to find a person that may or may not be there to buy something they may or may not have. Imagining walking through the same level of Super Mario over and over just to see if a certain enemy may spawn and drop a start or mushroom or whatever. That's entertaining by comparison to X: Rebirth.

    All in all, I can not even discribe how disappointed I was of all the things I had hoped for. I was jumping up and down like a crazy kid when I heard of a new X title and got it as soon as it was on steam. Now I wish I wouldn't.    … Expand
  70. Greyfox452
    Dec 9, 2013
    1
    Tried really hard to get into this game and was terribly dissapointed. Take everything that was good about the previous X games and throw it out the window, add in a lot of bugs, broken or outright missing game components, and an agonizingly repetitive dialog minigame and you have X-Rebirth. I have some small hope that when the bugs are fixed and user feedback is addressed it will becomeTried really hard to get into this game and was terribly dissapointed. Take everything that was good about the previous X games and throw it out the window, add in a lot of bugs, broken or outright missing game components, and an agonizingly repetitive dialog minigame and you have X-Rebirth. I have some small hope that when the bugs are fixed and user feedback is addressed it will become an OK game, but probably never a great one. It feels like a failed console game ported to PC with chewing gum and twine. It never should have been released in this condition, and I hope Egosoft realizes the enormous harm this has on their reputation isn't worth the little bit of money they made. If you want a good experience in this genre try playing X3, wait for Star Citizen (which will hopefully be good,) or even go all the way back to Freelancer. As old as Freelancer is now, it is a much better game.… Expand
  71. derchinese
    Dec 9, 2013
    2
    absolute i bought a full priced game and i get a beta finished game f**k you ego-soft. it is dissappointing to see a cpmpany who made false promisses and sells as most innovativ space game. sad very sad
  72. Zhorick
    Dec 9, 2013
    4
    I'm not an X series fan. I like it, played almost every game, but I don't have much time to dive deep in the universe. But I liked them. X series was a solid space sim. I think best in the genre. Until X Rebirth.
    I've waited it. They released it full of bugs. Ok, I can wait. I never blame any game for launch-time bugs. It happens, no big deal. So they fixed the majority of game-killing    I'm not an X series fan. I like it, played almost every game, but I don't have much time to dive deep in the universe. But I liked them. X series was a solid space sim. I think best in the genre. Until X Rebirth.
    I've waited it. They released it full of bugs. Ok, I can wait. I never blame any game for launch-time bugs. It happens, no big deal. So they fixed the majority of game-killing bugs and I started to play.
    And I got to say it's rather enjoyable. Beautiful space. Very detailed, nice graphics. Everything ends up in the first station. All interiors are awful. Very low detail, poor textures, character models from early 2000s. Why did they do that? Why they add this piece of ugliness in such a beautiful game? For what reason? And it would be ok if station walks were optional. But you have to dock to station to find job applicant or items trader. I guess in X Rebirth universe they forgot what internet is. Station walks is number one that makes this game bad. Looting the lockers? Is it a bad joke? I have my own spaceship and I need to run the station and crawl the vents to steal some credits or a space suit? Talking with people? Hmm, that makes sense. Until they repeat the same dialogue ten times.
    The second thing that kills the game is it's console origin. Every second you will realize that it's a badly ported console game. Controls, menus, interface, everything is for gamepad, not keyboard. I have more than a hundred keys and I still need to go to menu to switch HUD mode. And no free look. Of course, how can you implement free look on a gamepad? So you sit in your chair with lots of controls and screens in your spaceship and you can only look in front of you.
    Anyways, the game is fun if you will never visit stations. But you can't.
    I still think they can improve the game. If they only make station walks optional and make separate interface for console and PC versions the game will become playable and rather fun. Even with other minor issues like primitive combat or lack of interaction options with NPCs. I hope they make station walks optional and remake the interface. But I doubt they will. But until then it's a waste of money. Don't buy it.    … Expand
  73. orindoomhammer
    Dec 9, 2013
    1
    I have put 49 hours into this game. Why? because I wanted to give it a fair chance, 49 hrs and many patches later i still wish it was better. You can argue and fuss all you want about the game but its mini game hell strung together with a pretty background and some interesting sounds and music. But even that doesn't help, its buggy sure but that is not the problem, They tried to make theI have put 49 hours into this game. Why? because I wanted to give it a fair chance, 49 hrs and many patches later i still wish it was better. You can argue and fuss all you want about the game but its mini game hell strung together with a pretty background and some interesting sounds and music. But even that doesn't help, its buggy sure but that is not the problem, They tried to make the game more engaging but they devastated it by adding way way too many features that shouldn't have been in there in the first place.

    Let me explain, as an avid X3 fan I enjoyed the space sim sure it was a bit hard to get the hang of and fighting in that game was ridiculously hard and pointless but i played it for the trading and what not anyway. This game feels like it is trying to follow Freelancer but failed because it tried to toss in a Mario party level of mini games that were mostly broken. Sure running around in stations sounds fun until you realise you have to do it for just about everything from upgrading your ship to buying drones and repairing your other ships, you have to put ships into your personal wing in order to do anything. thats right every ship you own goes into your wing and follows you around the universe as you explore fight and trade, the mini game for finding wrecks are more profitable than large scale trading as the goods you find are generally worth way way more and only take a few min to hunt down a couple million worth.

    The game is rough for a finished game and that doesn't bother me as thats what they do now days take your money give you a busted product and fix it over the next 6 months in most cases and i suspect thats what is going to happen here with X:R they are working on it and it has received tons of patches but honestly the game needs more work than patches as its horribly designed with the mini games and combat taking the foreground to anything else in the game, when it was released combat was the only thing that actually worked well, and I like it they brought back the freelancer feel with the games combat mechanics the ships even behave mostly the same so its not overly challenging for me as a vet of freelancer, not like the combat system in x3 anyway.

    I was optimistic that the stupid design decisions wouldn't get in the way of the game, when i was waiting eagerly for it and sadly they did from the beginning i found the mini games pretty annoying, if i wanted to play a game full of mini games id dig out my wii and play Mario party. I tried really really hard to like this game and i do somewhat for some of the things it got right like combat and pretty space backgrounds with decent sound and music to accompany it. but sadly i don't like it enough to continue to play it even if the game gets patched to the more stable state that its working towards.    … Expand
  74. Danceswithsheep
    Dec 9, 2013
    0
    Another nail in the coffin of Space Sims. If Elite dangerous and Star Citizen make the same stumbling mistakes as this achingly poorly implemented pos then that could kill the genre stone dead. Egosoft promised a lot and delivered little that was working or resembling their boasts, the trade system is broken, the combat is broken, the commands are broken..get my drift?
  75. Xseries
    Dec 9, 2013
    1
    Just going to put ^ for all the complaints and then some for the about this atrocity.

    In fact, the total makeup of this game reminds me of Ubisoft, churning out rubbish linear, monotonus game-play games one after another and even then it didn't go all to "Better" graphics all go to waste in the absence of optimization, with a high end cpu i get choppy graphics. Last two releases were    Just going to put ^ for all the complaints and then some for the about this atrocity.

    In fact, the total makeup of this game reminds me of Ubisoft, churning out rubbish linear, monotonus game-play games one after another and even then it didn't go all to "Better" graphics all go to waste in the absence of optimization, with a high end cpu i get choppy graphics. Last two releases were wonderful, minus the terrible polygonal faces and lip movment.

    There is a major improvement in the humanoid department, maybe from virtua fighter days to 2000 (Current year is 2013 for the record). For heavens sake get someone who can actually make humanoids look like humanoids.

    Only thing i didn't experience from most of the other users, crashing.
    It's going to take a miracle to "fix" this game.
    Better start from scratch or just reuse the previous X-series formats, would still buy those. By the least i can CHOOSE a ship i want to use.

    1 point for the interior design of the Albion skunk. That's being generous.

    I'll only continue to support egosoft because of their history of good games and that this is a giant leap from the predescessors level of game design.    … Expand
  76. Dramadon
    Dec 8, 2013
    3
    I played this game for a few hours until I got to a quest that seemed to be broken. At least, I'd do the step, start to move to the next step only to have the quest flip back to the step I just finished. I tried resetting multiple times but it kept doing this. This, among the dozens of times in the few hours I played the game locked up or crashed made me feel like I'd been swindled by aI played this game for a few hours until I got to a quest that seemed to be broken. At least, I'd do the step, start to move to the next step only to have the quest flip back to the step I just finished. I tried resetting multiple times but it kept doing this. This, among the dozens of times in the few hours I played the game locked up or crashed made me feel like I'd been swindled by a snake oil salesman. The game is pretty and there is some potential, I guess, but honestly, crashes and this bug prevented me from getting far enough into the game to give an educated review about anything else. The game is simply broken.… Expand
  77. romaltya
    Dec 7, 2013
    1
    I'd like to stress that I've been a HUGE fan of the X-franchise ever since X: beyond the frontier. I was aware that this game would not be a "X4" but an entirely new look on the X franchise. Purpose was to make new gamers enjoy and get comfortable with the franchise and it's economys extreme complexity. A goal I thouroghly embraced.

    That being said this is perhaps the worst    I'd like to stress that I've been a HUGE fan of the X-franchise ever since X: beyond the frontier. I was aware that this game would not be a "X4" but an entirely new look on the X franchise. Purpose was to make new gamers enjoy and get comfortable with the franchise and it's economys extreme complexity. A goal I thouroghly embraced.

    That being said this is perhaps the worst spacesimulation of all times.. I can't recall a game that failed to deliver in this way. It's controls are bad to put it mildly.. When u're in the of the only ship u can fly u're pretty much locked in u'r seat with few to no options in regards to view, weaponry or other standardised informations ie. a radar. The fact u can only fly one ship makes the somewhat strange as u'd think they'd atleast make it a good one they haven't.. The fact that i lacks all the basics for a functionally makes u wonder what on earth they spend 7 years on.. Wasn't the complex economy that's for sure.. The economy is non-existent, ships fly with little purpose other than the graphical.. If that wasn't bad enough the only ship u can fly is a ugly bucket, which I didn't think was such a problem as they promised a lot of flexibility in the ships modules they failed to deliver though.. The game promised to make things less complex hardly achieved.. It promised a more gripping storyline hardly as all stations look the same and dialogue options is limited to nonexistent.. What it has done is take a franchise and put it's entire future in the twilight of a nebula.. I for one will not recommend this game to anyone, and I hope the developers in Egosoft are ashamed for releasing such an unfinished game.. Amazing after 7 years abscense..    … Expand
  78. xReBirther
    Dec 6, 2013
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 10 for the beautiful artwork and space environment, 0 for game play and interiors.
    Overall 3 from me. I just like to fly around the outside of the stations and enjoy the artwork but the rest has been neglected. I get the impression that the budget ran out on creating different stations with diversity. Has potential if opened to a mod creation kit.

    The navigation map GUI is poor, very disappointed. If they had done something like the EVE 3d star maps would have been awesome.

    All the stations are nearly identical, even when you travel to the area that has been isolated for a generation, the bars have the same horrible music loop that has to be muted, at that point the Sci fi story completely looses credibility.

    I bought the enhanced version with extra artwork and encyclopedia and is very good.
    But the "extra" music is a ripoff, cant tell the difference, kind of a scam IMO.    … Expand
  79. jmac7111
    Dec 6, 2013
    0
    After having 100+ hours on this game and with a previous experience on X3:Albion Prelude, this is my review:

    1. This game has nothing to do with previous X-series. It is a stripped down version with lots of important features missing, and it seems deliberately so left out. 2. Besides the fact that it is actually still a Beta version, the main plot does not work and the game (Ver.    After having 100+ hours on this game and with a previous experience on X3:Albion Prelude, this is my review:

    1. This game has nothing to do with previous X-series. It is a stripped down version with lots of important features missing, and it seems deliberately so left out.

    2. Besides the fact that it is actually still a Beta version, the main plot does not work and the game (Ver. 1.18) crashes very often.

    3. It is clearly designed as an Xbox and not a PC game (for example joystick support is missing) with an overall very bad PC UI. The overall performance is bad as well.

    4. Based on the above, I do not expect any further improvements, except existing bug fixes after maybe a few months, but not earlier (yes, it is that bad, considering also the 'promised' and the 'delivered', besides the deceiving done by Egosoft). And don't expect any serious modding, for I doubt if experienced modders will ever want to get 'dirty' with this stupid implementation.

    5. If you are around 10 years old and just want to make a trip around space, see some rather good graphics and do some primitive fighting, trading and station building, you can do it, but definitely NOT on this price tag and not now wait until it is fixed.
    Furthermore, if you are new to this, you will spend a lot of time learning and understanding it, because there is almost no comprehensive help. You will constantly be under the impression that it is your own fault if things don't work out, while it is really the dev's very bad and brain damaging concept and design, which is full of holes with hardly any info given. Prepare to spend more time searching through the forums seeking for help, than actually playing the game.

    6. Having said that, just to use the game's motto, you can completely forget about proper "Trade" and most importantly "Think" (which is totally absent from this game, if not the reverse).

    7. If you are an X-gamer DO NOT BUY it. It's really a big piece of garbage and you will be utterly and bitterly disappointed.

    8. And last but not least, please read the comments and see all reviews about this game on Steam and on other sites too

    i.e. http://steamcommunity.com/app/2870/discussions/0/648811852715079441/

    9. Final score 0--    … Expand
  80. smashpumpkin
    Dec 5, 2013
    0
    I gave it 0 because liars don't deserve one single point. And because my complete useless review has to be at least 150 characters, I'm now typing this extra phrase.
  81. xystron
    Dec 5, 2013
    0
    Do not purchase this game. Even if it goes on some holiday sale for 75% off, it will end up eating most of your time trying to work around things. The trading system and other elements in the game that are main features are bugged or not working properly. It was unplayable. On a high end rig, this game runs like doo-doo. After one of the most recent patches, it actually dropped my fps inDo not purchase this game. Even if it goes on some holiday sale for 75% off, it will end up eating most of your time trying to work around things. The trading system and other elements in the game that are main features are bugged or not working properly. It was unplayable. On a high end rig, this game runs like doo-doo. After one of the most recent patches, it actually dropped my fps in stations and made things even more unresponsive. Gave me a headache. Alt-f4.

    Others have already expanded on the poor design, interface, bugs, reasons for crashes, etc. Yes, it is really that bad.

    I own all the X3 games and played the heck out of AP especially. Aside from the crashing and bugs, this game is a huge disappointment for me when comparing to all of the features and gameplay aspects there were in the previous X3 titles. I do not really understand how or why they made the horrible decisions they have made, but at this point I really don't care. I've spent less than 3 hours trying to actually play the game, crashes/bugs included, which is overshadowed by the 16+ hours in the span of two weeks spent figuring out how to fix the crashing/bugs/other annoying problems. It has not been an enjoyable experience at all. First and last time pre-ordering. Fan of Egosoft games lost.

    Bottom line: Do not buy this game.     … Expand
  82. maxg
    Dec 4, 2013
    0
    This game is abysmal. Even after something like 8 patches the game is flawed to the point where you can't even finish the main campaign missions because of major bugs. It's really disgusting that you can release a game like this and not offer refunds.
  83. Lozsta
    Dec 4, 2013
    1
    Having played the X series a lot and really enjoyed them, this seems to have taken what was a really enjoyable game, chewed it up and crapped out a heap of awful. I have given the game about 5 hours, which may not be enough but from what I thought was going to be an amazing reimagining of a great franchise, but unfortunately not.

    The FPS part, completely not needed, the navigation    Having played the X series a lot and really enjoyed them, this seems to have taken what was a really enjoyable game, chewed it up and crapped out a heap of awful. I have given the game about 5 hours, which may not be enough but from what I thought was going to be an amazing reimagining of a great franchise, but unfortunately not.

    The FPS part, completely not needed, the navigation awful, and the drafting other vehicles in the space lanes.... FTW is this need for speed space?

    Back to the drawing board, play some Elite and then try again Deep Silver, this should never have left the brainstorming session let alone be a released game    … Expand
  84. Knurrli
    Dec 4, 2013
    0
    betatestng. I'm really quite through with testng these unfinished software. Just simply please test the software before selling it for crying out loud. Whats the point in selling this software in development.
  85. Zedro
    Dec 3, 2013
    0
    I was really looking forward to this when it came out... what a disappointment! On my M11xR3, fully speced out, it couldn't achieve higher then 15 FPS unless I was looking at blank space on ultra low settings. Bugs like broken quests, player owned ships not following or accepting commands, NPC that squat up and down when talking to them... It goes on and on. The interior environments?I was really looking forward to this when it came out... what a disappointment! On my M11xR3, fully speced out, it couldn't achieve higher then 15 FPS unless I was looking at blank space on ultra low settings. Bugs like broken quests, player owned ships not following or accepting commands, NPC that squat up and down when talking to them... It goes on and on. The interior environments? Reused over and over again, bland with generic bland NPC. Control was built with the xBox 360 in mind, while the mouse and keyboard are hard to use and unpleasant

    The game is garbage throughout. I went to a city area and took 45 minuets (I could have done it quicker; I took my time) to destroy a large transport ship. Other than repeated calls for help with bad, reused voice acting, only once, at the beginning, did two ships try to stop me. After that, the façade broken down to a lifeless universe while I pew pew this poor ship till it blew up. It didn't try to escape or move away. Just open up weak turrets to shoot at me from time to time. It also helped me out by putting away the turrets after I went out of it firing angle. Garbage, throughout.

    This game should be the poster child for a mandatory, no-question-asked 72 hour refund window for broken, unfinished, unplayable games. If developers and publishers really believed in their product and the quality, then they would have nothing to fear.

    This game has been called Stillborn or Miscarriage. Those are apt descriptions. DO NOT buy this game! Steam has many games that are far better on sale and if you're really desperate for some space action, then play Egosoft's older X3 games.    … Expand
  86. Praetorian75
    Dec 3, 2013
    1
    Having been a big fan of the X franchise since X2 i was really looking forward to X Rebirth.

    Like so many others i was horrified when the game was finally released. Egosoft have a reputation for releasing buggy games and they do. But this was a new low. The game was in fact so buggy that it felt like playing a beta. That you paid full price for. Well lets list the Pros and Cons.    Having been a big fan of the X franchise since X2 i was really looking forward to X Rebirth.

    Like so many others i was horrified when the game was finally released. Egosoft have a reputation for releasing buggy games and they do. But this was a new low.

    The game was in fact so buggy that it felt like playing a beta. That you paid full price for.

    Well lets list the Pros and Cons.

    Pros:

    - The game engine, even if it is slightly buggy and have issues with high end hardware, looks really great in space.
    - They introduced NPCs that you can hire to work for you. Like ship captains, pilots etc. Good idea.

    Cons:

    - Game breaking bugs. Trade in the universe doesnt work, the plot has several missions with issues. I could go on, but trust me when i say its buggy and it wont be easily fixed anytime soon. Maybe 3-6 months down the road. Maybe.
    - Time sinks have been introduced. You have no SETA (which was an option to speed up time greatly in the previous X games) anymore. So its manually flying around, taking "highways" with a pointless mini game to get your speed up. You have to land on stations and walk around to talk to NPCs that you need for the plot line as well as hiring new NPCs to work for you.
    - They removed the radar (gravidar)
    - The UI is even worse now than in previous X games
    - The way you have to order your ships around is mind numbingly broken and non existant.
    - You can only pilot 1 ship and this is the ship you start in.

    I could go on, but i think this will suffice for now.

    So in essence: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Egosoft have been making a fool of everyone that pre ordered. They are not to be trusted to actually fix this travesty of a game.    … Expand
  87. seevee
    Dec 3, 2013
    2
    The game has a tremendous amount of potential, and I can think of nothing like it other than other games in the X series. Unfortunately, it is profoundly broken, to an extent that makes it clear that egosoft was aware that they were releasing a broken product for full price. Basically, they were scamming their fans. There is real potential here, egosoft was trying something novel, whichThe game has a tremendous amount of potential, and I can think of nothing like it other than other games in the X series. Unfortunately, it is profoundly broken, to an extent that makes it clear that egosoft was aware that they were releasing a broken product for full price. Basically, they were scamming their fans. There is real potential here, egosoft was trying something novel, which is why they don't get a 0. The product is so fatally flawed, buggy, and misguided that I will never purchase another egosoft product and I demanded my money back. Avoid it, or pirate it if you're a die-hard, but don't give them a cent.… Expand
  88. Dethstar
    Dec 2, 2013
    0
    Musics nice. Some of the graphics are nice. Others have shocking textures and fidelity. The textures in space stations are like something out of an old duke nukem game.

    The concepts and ambition in terms of making populated space feel a bit more alive than in previous games were admirable. Sadly this game is not. The latest long term series sunk. What stands out about this game    Musics nice. Some of the graphics are nice. Others have shocking textures and fidelity. The textures in space stations are like something out of an old duke nukem game.

    The concepts and ambition in terms of making populated space feel a bit more alive than in previous games were admirable. Sadly this game is not. The latest long term series sunk.

    What stands out about this game is that is the first game and only other genuine title which feels more like a scam. A lot of promises were made but this isnt just failing to meet expectations it is actually shamelessly scamming people. The X series is now officially over.

    I wouldn't take a free Ferrari from this company right now. Just waiting for the CEO of Egosoft to send me an email asking me for 50 Dollars to help a random contact or relation on the basis he will send me a 50,000 dollar cheque in return. They making these in Nigeria now?    … Expand
  89. Rizendell
    Dec 2, 2013
    0
    After 100 hours of play time giving this game a fair chance, I give this game a 0. Weeks after release, and the basic functions such as trading, mining, and drones are still hopelessly broken. While I have tried and tried again to get through the campaign it is wrought with endless bugs and glitches that make it unenjoyable and unplayable. The performance droops, hitches, and bouncesAfter 100 hours of play time giving this game a fair chance, I give this game a 0. Weeks after release, and the basic functions such as trading, mining, and drones are still hopelessly broken. While I have tried and tried again to get through the campaign it is wrought with endless bugs and glitches that make it unenjoyable and unplayable. The performance droops, hitches, and bounces all over the place. Even with the graphics settings turned up, the textures all look like they were place holders. The modeling detail is poor.

    The development team has reverted the game into a "public beta" state in a failed attempt to fix the bugs, and has a lack of communication with the community about its plans, its progress, and when we can expect. They haven't even posted on the steam forums in over 2 weeks.

    I am extremely disappointed in Egosoft. After being a loyal X-Universe fan since the beginning, receiving a game that just plain doesn't work is a huge shock. I will never ever buy another game from Egosoft. They might as well liquidate the company and give themselves a slap in the face on the way out.

    If you care about your wallet, and about receiving quality software for your money, do not buy this game or support Egosoft by playing it.    … Expand
  90. x1xscarfacex1x
    Dec 2, 2013
    1
    The game is slowly getting patched up to compensate for the catastrophic launch. Whether you have ever played any of the X series or not stay away from this title. It does not deliver a fraction of the features it promised. Read the critic reviews. There is a reason why they are so low.
  91. eddiedm
    Dec 2, 2013
    0
    Launch day: Loaded the game up and first couple of minutes, doubt it was actually "tested." I work in IT Support and we regularly test products for bugs and user problems. This phase was obviously skipped. Couldn't even progress through the first few items in the campaign. Horrid performance. Obvious and clear problems!

    Two weeks later after initial patches. Patching that quickly?    Launch day: Loaded the game up and first couple of minutes, doubt it was actually "tested." I work in IT Support and we regularly test products for bugs and user problems. This phase was obviously skipped. Couldn't even progress through the first few items in the campaign. Horrid performance. Obvious and clear problems!

    Two weeks later after initial patches. Patching that quickly? Patches good. But they couldnt test it prior to release? All major problems still present.

    0 to bring a 10 to 5.    … Expand
  92. Nekronata
    Dec 1, 2013
    0
    It is the worst game, I have "played" in the last 10 years!!! It is also the most buggy game i have "played" in the last 10 years. This game is simply customer fraud and not more.
  93. danskmacabre
    Dec 1, 2013
    0
    For the love of god, don't buy this game.
    buggy, Stuttering FPS even I have a Gaming PC bought a few months ago and runs new new games I've thrown at it fine except this.
    So many terrible design decisions. Even if the bugs are fixed it'll still be a terrible game.
    I'll go back to X:AP etc

    AVOID!
  94. Fletcherea
    Nov 30, 2013
    2
    Bad UI, confusing game mechanics, terrible performance with random fps spikes and drops.
    I would like to take this a bit further, great NPC conversations and dialogue, NOT!

    Fun sandbox, EVE single player like concept, terrible execution.
  95. yoyolll
    Nov 29, 2013
    0
    Nearly at patch 1.18 and game still doesn't work. Forget about whether or not the game is "good", because sooner or later you will run into a game crippling bug and have to restart. Example: buying energy cells is the 6th or 7th step of the tutorial, and if it so happens that there is another ship at the only trading dock that you can use for this step, it's game over. Create a new gameNearly at patch 1.18 and game still doesn't work. Forget about whether or not the game is "good", because sooner or later you will run into a game crippling bug and have to restart. Example: buying energy cells is the 6th or 7th step of the tutorial, and if it so happens that there is another ship at the only trading dock that you can use for this step, it's game over. Create a new game and if you get lucky this time the dock will be empty. How can they charge people $50 for a game that straight up doesn't work?… Expand
  96. overthere2
    Nov 28, 2013
    1
    Just awful, buggy mess with broken animation broken missions, broken trading just did not work as advertised.
    The game mechanics have been grossly changed from previous games making it a slog.
    What did I get for my £40? The feeling I'm a complete idiot who's been taken for a ride. Got a 1 rather than 0 as some of the space scenes are quite pretty - Disappointed fan of the X series    Just awful, buggy mess with broken animation broken missions, broken trading just did not work as advertised.
    The game mechanics have been grossly changed from previous games making it a slog.
    What did I get for my £40? The feeling I'm a complete idiot who's been taken for a ride.
    Got a 1 rather than 0 as some of the space scenes are quite pretty

    - Disappointed fan of the X series
    With lots of other space genre games coming out know this is the last game I'll be buying from this studio    … Expand
  97. Warlord8
    Nov 27, 2013
    2
    The game is a mess. Full of bugs. After the initial patches the game has improved but it is not what I've paid 50 for. I wanted to play a single player game with trading and single player possibilities, but what I've find is a game full of problems.

    I just hope they are going to fix it, because the game is interesting... it's only messy, and buggy.
  98. Southerncross
    Nov 26, 2013
    2
    Do not buy this game. No amount of patching will be able to fix its inherent flaws. Wait for Elite: Dangerous or Star Citizen.

    Go back to X3TC AP if you have to.

    You have been warned.
  99. furfa
    Nov 26, 2013
    0
    This game is in alpha, the critical pieces that impact gameplay DO NOT WORK. The storyline especially is absolutely unworkable, the only recommended fixes are re-coding your save games. Really? I thought Star Wars TOR was not ready, this game makes that game look polished and patched for 3 years. I am irate I paid 60 dollars to play this game, it is not ready to be released.
  100. ddddddddddddddd
    Nov 26, 2013
    1
    I was pretty hyped up for this game, and guess what I got?
    A bag of half-completed ****
    Frame rate, 0.
    Gameplay, about as good as Ride to Hell: Retribution.
    UI, just plain terrible.

    But the soundtrack ain't half bad.
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  1. IGN Italia
    Feb 18, 2014
    40
    Rebirth lacks inspiration, purpose, good ideas. It's riddled with bugs and, even when it seems to work, it manages to be dull. There isn't any true reason to play it.
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  2. CD-Action
    Feb 10, 2014
    30
    Instead of giving the series a new life the developers buried it and the patches are a classic case of ‘too little, too late’. There’s a lot of things you can forgive this game but not the fact that it’s boring. [02/2014, p.58]
  3. PC Gamer
    Jan 31, 2014
    39
    X misses the spot. The occasional bit of spectacle can't save this boring, broken and charmless space simulation. [March 2014, p.60]
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