X Rebirth

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1310 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 275 out of 1310
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  3. Negative: 924 out of 1310
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  1. Maputo
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    3 words: worst game ever

    this is a good example, when a company/publisher needs money and forces the producer to release their game... everything is unfinished... just poor
  2. JaySmizzle
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I played for 10 minutes and was so disgusted I stopped playing and here is my opinion:
    1. Terrible performance. I have a top of the line system and I get 25 fps with NOTHING GOING ON.
    2. Controls are atrocious. I have a Saitek x52 and had it hooked up and ready to go but apparently it doesn't work with this game and the game didn't even recognize the axis of my joystick so it was    I played for 10 minutes and was so disgusted I stopped playing and here is my opinion:
    1. Terrible performance. I have a top of the line system and I get 25 fps with NOTHING GOING ON.
    2. Controls are atrocious. I have a Saitek x52 and had it hooked up and ready to go but apparently it doesn't work with this game and the game didn't even recognize the axis of my joystick so it was impossible to configure.
    3. low res textures and still 25 fps!

    Just awful.    … Expand
  3. Satoris
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Okay, let's ignore the game breaking bugs for a moment. This is the first day of release for a PC game, bugs are to be expected. Most people can't play for more than 2 hours without getting irrevocably trapped in the campaign, but ignore that for a moment. This game has been in development for 7 years.

    Let's just go through the features this game has to offer: 1. Five different    Okay, let's ignore the game breaking bugs for a moment. This is the first day of release for a PC game, bugs are to be expected. Most people can't play for more than 2 hours without getting irrevocably trapped in the campaign, but ignore that for a moment. This game has been in development for 7 years.

    Let's just go through the features this game has to offer:

    1. Five different upgradable weapon types that go from Mk. I, to Mk. II, to Mk. III etc. That's it. In the whole game. You have 5 different weapons.

    2. No pilotable ships: You are trapped on the Albion Skunk for all of eternity.

    3. Terribly poor AI for companion ships in your squad, no clear way of acquiring new ships.

    4. Frankly, no fun. I've played it for about eight hours now. What do I have to look forward to in this game? Turning my Plasma Cannon Mk. II into a Plasma Cannon Mk. III? Weeeee. Oh wait I can do fetch quests, delivery quests, kill quests and trade quests to my heart's content. Oh yes and I can do mining! Woo! So instead of turning my Plasma Cannon Mk. II into a Plasma Cannon Mk. III... I get to turn my Mining Laser Mk. II into a Mining Laser Mk. III.

    So I can't purchase a new ship, I can only buy incremental upgrades of my existing weapons... I'm sorry but for a game with over 7 years of development where is the depth? What the heck happened here?

    When you fly around and actually look at your options as, say, a miner... You have mining drone Mk. 1, mining laser mk. 1. And as you mine more you get Mining Drone mk. 2. And mining laser mk. 2. I'm sorry, but that is even worse than EVE mining (no offense to any EVE miners out there).

    The graphics are also pretty dang bad. But they're nothing compared to the voice acting. I pity anyone that tries to play this for over 10 or 20 hours. The one liner your copilot spews every time you dock loses its magic after you hear it the first 100 times.

    Between the gameplay, the graphics, the sound, and the music (or lack thereof)... -shaking head-

    I guess this is what happens when devs decide they need to "streamline and revamp" their game.

    I feel incredibly bad for them. I don't know what I'd do if I spent 7 years of my life to produce... this. They have my pity.    … Expand
  4. iytrix
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I felt compelled to create and account just to warn people.

    This game is complete and utter trash. For starters, it won't work. If you like trying a game because you have some desire to play every game that has ever come out, wait a few months before trying to play this. You won't be able to play it yet. It's too buggy, very laggy, crashes a lot, and many of the missions have issues.    I felt compelled to create and account just to warn people.

    This game is complete and utter trash.

    For starters, it won't work. If you like trying a game because you have some desire to play every game that has ever come out, wait a few months before trying to play this. You won't be able to play it yet. It's too buggy, very laggy, crashes a lot, and many of the missions have issues.

    But okay, let's pretend it works, once you make your way through a menu that feels more like a console port than any ACTUAL console port I've seen, you get in to the game....which looks like crap. The looks OKAY but many effects are cheesy and the atmosphere constantly has stars flying by right next to you because apparently crawing in space at 20mph causes stars to be pulled near your ship and stretched out thin like noodles. It's like the star wars warp effect, only the stars are next to your ship, and instead of warping, you're going slower than a PT cruiser.

    That is the prettiest part of the game. Then you get to the back of the ship, which looks like it, and the character models, were taken right out of a sightly, and I mean slightly, higher resolution of half life 1.

    If you still are hoping for gameplay...Well you're SOL. All aspects currently are too buggy to fully play out, but all if it is dull, despite stripping away depth to add "immersion" and "action". The immersion is apparently taking 5 minutes of going straight to get to anywhere you need to go, and being in a while you're in a neck brace because you can't look around at ALL. Avoid this at all costs. Maybe get it on a steam sale for $5 this winter once it's actually playable, but you still won't actually be having fun.    … Expand
  5. Fleabum
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Before you read the following, understand I have played X games for 10 years, I have 1000's of hours played. This is a constructive synopsis of my feelings towards Rebirth.

    Reading the egosoft forums over the last 4 months, there have been three camps of players, those who moan and besmirch the game and everything about it, the players who think positive and say everything will be    Before you read the following, understand I have played X games for 10 years, I have 1000's of hours played. This is a constructive synopsis of my feelings towards Rebirth.

    Reading the egosoft forums over the last 4 months, there have been three camps of players, those who moan and besmirch the game and everything about it, the players who think positive and say everything will be great, and those who sit on the fence with the wait and see attitude.

    I did my best to not get too excited about Rebirth, I erred towards the wait and see attitude, for me its better to have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised, instead of high expectations and be sadly disappointed.

    So after seven years waiting, 1000's of hours played in the X universe, the day of release comes to pass. Time moves along a few hours of playing and what do we have. Even with my low expectations, am I pleasantly surprised? Sadly not, I feel numb inside to what has happened to X in its current incarnation of Rebirth. It feels like a chore to play, not an entertaining open ended sandbox universe its meant to be.

    Regards
    Flea    … Expand
  6. nickydel
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I was ready to love this game, warts and all. In my 15+ years of avid gaming, this is a strong contender for most disappointing release. I could have tolerated game breaking bugs, poor graphics, terrible voice acting (all true), but the design decisions have crushed my faith in this developer.
  7. DaSkippa
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    The UI omfg the UI. I can tell there is a game here but I can't get to it because of the UI.
    The UI is bad on M/keyboard
    The UI is bad on controller
    I would probably give it a higher rating if I could get past the crappy UI and actually play it and when I do crash.
    Did I mention the UI blows?
  8. pulltop
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I usually don't review games on metacritic but I felt the need to register a new account and share my genuine thought on this one particularly. I am completely stunned by the amount of X Rebirth/Egosoft apologist that rushed to give this game a blatantly biased 10/10 score. This game provides very little in terms of game play compared to previous X titles; it actually took more away fromI usually don't review games on metacritic but I felt the need to register a new account and share my genuine thought on this one particularly. I am completely stunned by the amount of X Rebirth/Egosoft apologist that rushed to give this game a blatantly biased 10/10 score. This game provides very little in terms of game play compared to previous X titles; it actually took more away from the genre instead of brought fresh ideas in.

    The in-space graphics may look fancy at first but it soon begins to lose its appeal when you realize how cheesy they are. In-station graphics are atrocious, not to mention the abysmally abhorrent NPC character design and modeling. All stations are the same inside and visually blandly designed, providing very little replay value and stripping bare all the fun of discovery and adventure.

    The game UI is clearly designed for console, yet it doesn't even have full joystick support. Keyboard/mouse support is terrible, as the major advantage of mouse over a controller precision is useless in this game. UI may seem simple and accessible at the first glance, but what it really does is only to complicate easy tasks that can usually be done via a single click and stretch it out to a sequence of non-intuitive actions.

    NPC dialogues are boring and feels completely out of place really people simply don't talk like that. And don't even get me started on the terribly voiced dialogues; it only makes me wonder how much of the budget actually went to hiring voice actors and were they ever being directed professionally.

    Game play is several step backwards from previous X titles. There is only one ship you can fly and the progression is done from no other than upgrading your weapon from Mk.I to Mk.V. How boring is that? I can name more than several free flash games that have a better progression system and keep the player hooked.

    The game also inexcusably stutters on my only recently built $1000 gaming machine, even on all low setting; I can barely get 40fps even when nothing at all is happening, and it practically made combat an experience impossible to enjoy.

    TL;DR: This game should not have passed QA control. It's beyond redeemable for a $50 game, seven freaking years in development.    … Expand
  9. bimbam
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Should have been called 'X Afterbirth', as that is exactly what it feels like. A game that was developed for consoles and then aborted to be back ported shoddily onto the PC. An insult to every fan of the series.

    Teach me to buy something on day of release. I will drop for now and wait for (potentially) them to fix it. Frankly, I want my money back.
  10. Obsolescence
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Feels/plays/looks like a bad console port to PC. Performance is rubbish. Is nothing like the X games we all love. Makes me ashamed to have been waiting this long to play it. I am the fool who has been parted from his money.

    Don't make the same mistake I did! EGOSOFT should be ashamed of themselves. They should have just cut their losses and not released it, or just done an expansion    Feels/plays/looks like a bad console port to PC. Performance is rubbish. Is nothing like the X games we all love. Makes me ashamed to have been waiting this long to play it. I am the fool who has been parted from his money.

    Don't make the same mistake I did! EGOSOFT should be ashamed of themselves. They should have just cut their losses and not released it, or just done an expansion pack for X3. At this point, the X universe is dead to me. I doubt they'll ever release another title like or better than X3. This game is literally the death of a franchise witness.    … Expand
  11. Kahm83
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    A very disappointing title.
    The graphics are extremely outdated, yet use a lot of resources. Don't get me wrong, it runs fluidly on my hardware but just looks crappy.
    This game is a serious downgrade from previous X games. I have no idea what exactly they have been doing the last couple of years. I have seen games done by modders that look better. I am actually uninstalling it as we    A very disappointing title.
    The graphics are extremely outdated, yet use a lot of resources. Don't get me wrong, it runs fluidly on my hardware but just looks crappy.
    This game is a serious downgrade from previous X games. I have no idea what exactly they have been doing the last couple of years. I have seen games done by modders that look better.
    I am actually uninstalling it as we speak and going back to X3 Terran Conflict.
    DO NOT BUY this game, if you are interested in the X series look into the X3 games. They are well made (well at least compared to X Rebirth) and fun.    … Expand
  12. wjvander
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Having loved ALL the previous X games, I was SO looking forward to this one. The trailer looked absolutely amazing and got me drooling. I was willing to spend all those hours flying through the massive space, having on auto-pilot, being able to zoom and scroll through maps, flying all the different ships. Sadly, none of those features exist. You are completely locked with a full view, noHaving loved ALL the previous X games, I was SO looking forward to this one. The trailer looked absolutely amazing and got me drooling. I was willing to spend all those hours flying through the massive space, having on auto-pilot, being able to zoom and scroll through maps, flying all the different ships. Sadly, none of those features exist. You are completely locked with a full view, no auto-pilot, having to walk around space stations that all spawn from the same template. Talking to 2 different NPC's throughout the game.

    Sadly, I'm afraid I wasted my money and so will you. I'd rather play X3 at the moment.    … Expand
  13. RuseFox
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    I have been anticipating this game for months and have been bitterly let down. It has few of the good qualities the previous games in the series have, I would not recommend it to anyone who enjoys the older x series games.
    It deserves a 4/10 from the standpoint of a player new to the x series.If you are really desperate for a space fix and dislike X:AP, X:TC and X3 then maybe you should    I have been anticipating this game for months and have been bitterly let down. It has few of the good qualities the previous games in the series have, I would not recommend it to anyone who enjoys the older x series games.
    It deserves a 4/10 from the standpoint of a player new to the x series.If you are really desperate for a space fix and dislike X:AP, X:TC and X3 then maybe you should buy this game. The graphics in space are fantastic when your not forced to look at your copilot.
    DON'T BUY THIS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE PREVIOUS X GAMES!    … Expand
  14. Multianna
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Rated 0. Simply because they released a game they knew were so badly bugged. Just playing the first 20min, you come across bugs that the first bug tester would have seen. It has nothing to do with drivers or hardware, but clearly a lack of testing of any kind. The developers put alot of pride into the fact, that they used 7 years to make this game. Still they fail to correct the same bugsRated 0. Simply because they released a game they knew were so badly bugged. Just playing the first 20min, you come across bugs that the first bug tester would have seen. It has nothing to do with drivers or hardware, but clearly a lack of testing of any kind. The developers put alot of pride into the fact, that they used 7 years to make this game. Still they fail to correct the same bugs the previous games had. Menu system are a total mess, just like previous X games. And now it shows they are aiming at consoles. Thank god i didn't waste 50€ on this!… Expand
  15. tetricus
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Utter crap, 9 year old visuals, insanely boring gameplay, silly story, and those PC controllers *shivers*. Avoid at all cost if you're a fan of the X franchise.Or if you even thought for a second to spend money on this game.
  16. seba654
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    It's not even about the hundreds of bugs or lack of optimization. It is poorly designed. The game is boring, trivial, there is no complexity, control is terrible, some mini games for five year old kids.
  17. ay1556
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Total disappointment.

    I have played all the previous games. This one is nothing like before. Horrible design, full of bugs. Totally not worth the money.
  18. SurePete
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Beside all the minor bugs, like NPC's behaving strangly (Kneeing down when you talk to them), the unefficient and complicated user interface (Trade Interface...), major mission bugs (Becoming stuck in trading mission, requiring to start a new game) and some crashes that may occour when trying to save the game -
    whats really buffling is the unbelievable bad performance that makes the game    Beside all the minor bugs, like NPC's behaving strangly (Kneeing down when you talk to them), the unefficient and complicated user interface (Trade Interface...), major mission bugs (Becoming stuck in trading mission, requiring to start a new game) and some crashes that may occour when trying to save the game -
    whats really buffling is the unbelievable bad performance that makes the game almost unplayable.

    If you have decent fairly recent hardware, you can forgett it. To even run without stutter on LOW settings, this game requires the absolut newest current hardware.

    I have a quad core CPU with a cpu clock of 2.8Ghz and a Radeon HD 7000 series graphics card. I have a framerate of about 15 fps on the lowst possible graphics settings. My CPU utilization while running the game is around 50%. The GPU utilization is even below that.

    There are also numerous reports of people with suprising low performance. Even people with TITAN-Graphic cards report bad framerates.

    I don't know what the game developers did, but it is apparant that this game has a huge issue with hardware utlization.    … Expand
  19. Zahnhans
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    At first I wasn't able to launch the game properly.
    After I found a fix for that at steam forum, I finally started my journey to the new X universe,
    just to be exposed to this giant collection of bugs and poor performance.

    This game doesn't help the space genre at all.
  20. elitephpcoder
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    All of the 10 ratings are lies and obviously paid reputation management personnel. I was so excited about this game like so many others only to be shocked and disgusted at the total and epic failure.

    Although the game has alot of ships and feels alive in a sense, thats the only thing it has going for it. Every other aspect of the game is horrible, garbage and invokes an indescribable    All of the 10 ratings are lies and obviously paid reputation management personnel. I was so excited about this game like so many others only to be shocked and disgusted at the total and epic failure.

    Although the game has alot of ships and feels alive in a sense, thats the only thing it has going for it. Every other aspect of the game is horrible, garbage and invokes an indescribable sense of RAGE at the fact that Egosoft would take a dump on its loyal fan base.

    1.No joystick support
    2.No Controls Settings WTF
    3.Game barely functions above a 15 framerate with SLI 550Ti Enthusiast editions on lowest settings.
    4.Graphics in stations make me want to puke all over myself.
    5.How can the developers release the poor NPC models without laughing so hard they cried?? Must have been some good weed they were smoking...
    6.The UI is the worst I have ever seen... EVER. Clunky, Buggy... and difficult.
    7. no keyboard controls for targeting, no external camera views, no freelook??? WTF WTF!
    8. No real control over ships??? How am I suppose to have an empire exactly??? TOTAL FALSE ADVERTISING!!!!

    I could go ON and ON literally about how BAD this game is compared to any other X game, or just about any other space sim... even the BAD space sims from 2002 are more fun that this game and at least they worked!!

    I have engaged in a chargeback through Paypal against Valve (STEAM). This game is a total and complete fraud... I will fight for my refund until the bitter end!

    Moral of the story: I'm Fu**ING PISSED OFF.    … Expand
  21. IxMikeyxI
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    It should be a crime to release a product that so many people cannot play due to game breaking bugs.

    Only reason this game has any score at all in the fan boys and the very few that can actually play it.
  22. Monkeyshots
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    This game has terrible frame rate issues even on 2,500-3000$ gaming rigs.

    The graphics look very undetailled too. especially inside buildings. there are no reflections only flat textures with bold black borders. looks like a comic style at times.
  23. kilo12
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    First of all this game has been in development for 7 years at EGOSOFT.
    -Developers showed lot of bells and whistles before launch but only if they worked properly.
    -Very poorly designed interface. Non responsive -Character animation is all copy and paste all over the game. There are 3-4 original characters. -This game a DirectX 9.0 Game and it is not optimized for Multicore CPU or GPU.    First of all this game has been in development for 7 years at EGOSOFT.
    -Developers showed lot of bells and whistles before launch but only if they worked properly.
    -Very poorly designed interface. Non responsive
    -Character animation is all copy and paste all over the game. There are 3-4 original characters.
    -This game a DirectX 9.0 Game and it is not optimized for Multicore CPU or GPU. Not optimized to run on even high end systems.
    - It is not worth $50, I suggest wait for sale if you must have it

    This was my very first Review on Metacritic, really disappointed at EGOSOFT for misguiding the public.    … Expand
  24. syntacs
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    I hate this game, very very bad performance, bad ui and a lot of bugs. This is really a Epic-Fail. Oh I hate the company now Don't buy this Game, it's only a bad joke!
  25. currfyg
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    I feel I have to leave a score of 0 for this game simply due to the number of clearly 10 scores being left. Whether or not this game is riddled with bugs which may or may not be dealt with soon by the devs, this game is fundamentally broken. It is really awful, anyone who has experience of the X series is in for a big shock with it. The UI has clearly be designed with solely controllersI feel I have to leave a score of 0 for this game simply due to the number of clearly 10 scores being left. Whether or not this game is riddled with bugs which may or may not be dealt with soon by the devs, this game is fundamentally broken. It is really awful, anyone who has experience of the X series is in for a big shock with it. The UI has clearly be designed with solely controllers in mind, it is horrible trying to play this thing with a mouse and keyboard, which for a PC title, is really bad. They have clearly tried to reach a larger market of console gamers with this and in the process have gimped the controls for the vast majority of their loyal fans. I really wouldn't be surprised to see a console announcement once they have eliminated most of the bugs plaguing the PC release.
    The price tag of £40 sets this game up as comparable to AAA titles, which it most definitely is not, in fact it is quite clear from this and the lack of review copies sent out prior to launch that the games release was a cash grab on the part of egosoft. Nobody is going to pay £40 for this game having seen the reactions of those who preordered like myself. The severity of the bugs this game has shipped with is frankly shocking, inability to even start the game, broken option features such mouse inverting, falling through interior maps every five seconds (that is only slightly hyperbolic, it took me literally 10 seconds into my first station walk to accidentally get caught on a vent hatch and be pushed through a wall). The minigames are a pain, though they are not really that much of an issue compared to my other complaints, they just seem cheap. The menus are ripped straight from mass effect (as is the art style for station interiors but that is something else) and is pretty much unusable for k/m players like the majority of X players seem to be. They have apparently made it very difficult for joystick users to though I cannot comment on this.
    The menus and maps are horrendous to look at and navigate thanks to a combination of design choice, th aforementioned console controls and the constant, long animations which kill the flow and speed of the game. While in previous X titles i have been able to set my ship on autopilot for a station or gate and use the instant menus to manage my ships/traders and stations/complexes, I am now required to stop my ship and wait for the menu monitor to appear before I can do anything. The autopilot has also been removed, and while the autopilot was a problem in previous games, their solutions seems to have been to remove all autopilot from Rebirth as the vast majority of ships you encounter are moving in strange arbitrary space roads which often lead them into sides of stations (I also feel that it is worth mentioning that these ships are about as real as those encountered in the highways, they feel as though they are randomly spawned to give the illusion that you are in a living universe.).
    That's all I can really think to say about this game, for me it is DOA, and it seems unlikely that the developers will be prepared to change such fundamental, yet broken game mechanics. For these many reasons it is simply unthinkable that this game could deserve a score as high as 8, let alone 10. It is certainly a shame that as a result I must give this game 0 as I cannot allow anyone to be fooled by the average userscore.
    If anyone has bothered to read this I would give this game an honest score of 3, maybe 4 but that seems to be pushing it a little. I have requested a refund on steam and hope I will receive at least credit on my account, and if, in the future, the developers manage to make this game remotely playable I will certainly buy it again, though almost definitely not at the same £40 I (foolishly) paid before release.    … Expand
  26. nofruit
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    It has a lot of bugs and stutters. Fraps shows 10 to 15 fps. That hurts in the eyes after a short time.
    All my other games run just fine.

    Deep Silver should not have release the game in this state. Not good for their reputation.
  27. doodk3wl
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    DUPED AGAIN! Ugh well this is two turd in a row now, first Rome 2 and now X: Rebirth. Even once they do manage to fix the bugs it wont change the fact the core gameplay is NOT FUN! Its just not the X the fans want as you can clearly tell by the metascore. I would have more fun rolling dog turds around in the mud. Egosoft you blew it. You are on the boycott list along with BlizzardDUPED AGAIN! Ugh well this is two turd in a row now, first Rome 2 and now X: Rebirth. Even once they do manage to fix the bugs it wont change the fact the core gameplay is NOT FUN! Its just not the X the fans want as you can clearly tell by the metascore. I would have more fun rolling dog turds around in the mud. Egosoft you blew it. You are on the boycott list along with Blizzard and Creative Assembly.… Expand
  28. linc
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    I bought this game based on the series' prestige, and it's advertised full PC gamepad support. I thought this spacesim game would look great on a 100" screen. After playing for a few hours, I wish there was a way to return this game.

    The animations, repeated/limited visuals, and textures are all reminiscent of a PC game from 2005 and look terrible upclose, especially on an HD screen.    I bought this game based on the series' prestige, and it's advertised full PC gamepad support. I thought this spacesim game would look great on a 100" screen. After playing for a few hours, I wish there was a way to return this game.

    The animations, repeated/limited visuals, and textures are all reminiscent of a PC game from 2005 and look terrible upclose, especially on an HD screen. Everyone suffers from being really, terrible, ugly. Even selecting menu options with the Wireless Xbox 360 PC Gamepad is impossible as it will scroll twice for every one input, skipping right over menu options making it impossible to even click on them without a mouse. The tutorial will tell you the *wrong button controls* for the Xbox 360 gamepad!

    I feel like this is an alpha version of a game from five years ago. I plan to give the developer a few months to patch things up before playing again.    … Expand
  29. Tzven
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Poor design choices, game-breaking bugs, and major performance problems all contribute to an incredibly disappointing release.

    Egosoft has made it very clear that this is a new game, and should be viewed on it's own merits. It is indeed impossible to play it without comparing it against some of the older entries in the series. The command functionality has been reduced to the point    Poor design choices, game-breaking bugs, and major performance problems all contribute to an incredibly disappointing release.

    Egosoft has made it very clear that this is a new game, and should be viewed on it's own merits. It is indeed impossible to play it without comparing it against some of the older entries in the series.

    The command functionality has been reduced to the point of obscurity. Remote control of ships is impossible, as is all forms of total automation. The minigames are repetitive and boring and worse, impossible to skip. The stations interiors are all identical. The list goes on, but it is sufficient to say that the game mechanics are broken.

    The campaign is not immune to the problems. If you do decide to purchase this "game", make sure to save often and in different slots. As it is currently impossible to remove orders from freighters, invalid orders will cause your freighters to sit there and do nothing making the campaign impossible to continue. Without time compression, damaged engines will make flying back to a station a chore.

    It pains me to admit I regret buying this title. Furthermore, the realization that this is the direction Egosoft seems to be taking their series both saddens and makes me worry for their future. Hopefully this debacle will remind them of their games strengths.

    I'll shelve the game for now. Maybe after a year or two of further development it will be worth playing. For now, skip this.    … Expand
  30. LSa
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Do not buy this game, the cost is way to high, performance is terrible, and the most disappointing thing in my opinion is that there are very few types of ships and you can only fly one.
  31. something9173
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    I've put 10+ hours into this. I've put A LOT more into X3 games. They have killed the excellent UI and game mechanics that made X work. The new gameplay is horrible being limited to flying one ship is a deal breaker. There is no SETA anymore so it is excruciatingly slow. Looking over the control mappings, they've removed a lot of functionality. It is a major pain to do anythingI've put 10+ hours into this. I've put A LOT more into X3 games. They have killed the excellent UI and game mechanics that made X work. The new gameplay is horrible being limited to flying one ship is a deal breaker. There is no SETA anymore so it is excruciatingly slow. Looking over the control mappings, they've removed a lot of functionality. It is a major pain to do anything anymore, and I can't imagine being able to build the kind of "empire" that I had built in X3. So far the game is more like Darkstar One instead of an X game. OH, and they're also hiring PS/XBOX programmers right now, so its clear where their priority is. One more game franchise that is being dumbed down for consoles, period. I want my money back.… Expand
  32. Khendil
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Too many bugs, crashes, sound problems, boring minigames, ultra ugly npc´s, horrible inteface, it feels like a really bad console port not even near as good as x3. 7 Years of development...what a joke. DONT BUY.
  33. Rickjames125
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    I have too many negative things to say about this game to be honest. Lets start with the actual concepts and mechanics in the game(the ones that atleast work). So a few years back i wrote plenty of suggestions in the Rebirth forum about this game. One suggestion I made was even featured in an interview with Bernd. This was essentially what I had asked about. "Will there be anyI have too many negative things to say about this game to be honest. Lets start with the actual concepts and mechanics in the game(the ones that atleast work). So a few years back i wrote plenty of suggestions in the Rebirth forum about this game. One suggestion I made was even featured in an interview with Bernd. This was essentially what I had asked about. "Will there be any functionality or ways to have the player build his/her own empire like fleets/ stations and essentially almost have a player controlled faction?" Bernd had replied yes that there will be large fleets the player can create and he can also customize each ship and station.

    Well guess what? I cant even tell 1 ship to go buy something. The features that the dev had said himself would be in this game are non existent. Now thats fine, just give me an expanded version of Terran Conflict so I can make lemonade out of lemons.

    Too bad thats gone too, This is an entirely different game folks, Your stuck with a ship that has the most pathetic name of all time and you can pick 1 out of 4 weapons to fire away with. You also cant have a ship patrol an area, it can only follow you or go mine some rocks. As for stations, well now you have to work extra hard to find a trader or an officer or someone who sells a specific drone. I don't bother with looking at ship types, because they all look the same to me. The plot is boring, broken and hasn't remotely interested me since i saw the first databurst in the game explaining the setting and whats changed. Lets not forget the amount of bugs and performance issues i have on high end custom built PC. I had better performance playing Rome 2 maxxed out on release day than this game. This is not XRebirth, nor will it ever be. Its also not a rebirth, its the final nail in the coffin of this series.    … Expand
  34. puffthedragon
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Has the joke "X rebirth defect" been taken?

    constant crashing!

    i should have waited for the reviews first, but got drawn in by developer BS

    10 out of 10 difficulty to learn!

    Sloppy controls!

    cannot roam about the ship as promised!

    cant dock with ship!

    sloppy animation, people are wooden!

    $50 down the crapper!

    BOTTOM LINE, THIS GAME IS NOT READY!
  35. Mookas
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Worst game ever.. 40 spent for nothing.. I hope it will be better with graphics enhancements, now it goes very slow even with a powerful computer videocard.
    I've never bought a X series game, i've only tried this and for me is all. Finish.
  36. maxmaskerade
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Bugs Rebirth

    I like previous X-Games, but X Rebirth is just bad. Low fps, crashes, you cannot command your ships as in X-Game, maps are terrible, many of low-polygons models, its really understanding for beginners. May be in some months you can play it.
  37. Cmo-Money
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    This game has awesome potential. There's so much you can do, the possibilities are endless. The game is beautiful and I can really get into the RP aspect. That being said, the campaigns bugs are GAME RUINING. So bad...

    Orders don't get followed, orders CAN'T be cancelled, so if one of your trade ships is bugged, you can cancel the bugged order. I played for 2 unhindered hours, spend the    This game has awesome potential. There's so much you can do, the possibilities are endless. The game is beautiful and I can really get into the RP aspect. That being said, the campaigns bugs are GAME RUINING. So bad...

    Orders don't get followed, orders CAN'T be cancelled, so if one of your trade ships is bugged, you can cancel the bugged order. I played for 2 unhindered hours, spend the next 3 trying to work around bugs. It's horrible. I've found fixes to some online that involve editing saved games and stuff, but that's not acceptable. To bad in this day and age you can't get your money back from these companies for releasing unfinished games.    … Expand
  38. rashinerha
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    Unfinished game. Unplayable. Only enjoyable for the first ~hour. Cannot play for more than 30 min without encountering a gamebreaking bug that either requires save file editing to fix or simply cannot be fixed.

    Game has massive potential, but it is simply not a a finished product. The game is broken on so many levels that it would be impossible not to notice. This either means the    Unfinished game. Unplayable. Only enjoyable for the first ~hour. Cannot play for more than 30 min without encountering a gamebreaking bug that either requires save file editing to fix or simply cannot be fixed.

    Game has massive potential, but it is simply not a a finished product. The game is broken on so many levels that it would be impossible not to notice. This either means the developers know the game is broken and decided to release it anyway or they never played the game before they released it.

    Selling this as a "game" is simply deceiving consumers and should be prosecuted by law. It is seriously so broken.    … Expand
  39. GonzaIez
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    This is an unfinished product no matter how you slice it. Unoptimized game, not ready for release, character models are awful, sound and character dialogs make my ear bleed. Good try from egosoft, has potential, but sucks really bad at the moment. Don't buy.
  40. Palizoid
    Nov 23, 2013
    0
    Gave it benefit of the doubt. Now I've played more of it, literally the bugs and incredibly bad fps make it just painful and quite frankly terrible to play. Honestly was this even alpha tested? or for that matter did the developers even bother at all to test the game on any system? Seriously feel ripped off, and would not even consider looking at this game for another year or so until itGave it benefit of the doubt. Now I've played more of it, literally the bugs and incredibly bad fps make it just painful and quite frankly terrible to play. Honestly was this even alpha tested? or for that matter did the developers even bother at all to test the game on any system? Seriously feel ripped off, and would not even consider looking at this game for another year or so until it at least it finally reaches an alpha stage. Don't waste your money.… Expand
  41. qweasdyxc
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    this game is only alpha- buggy stuff. DO NOT BUY! Spend your money on Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen. Do not believe the nice-video-lies! This game has nothing to do with the old nice x-universe.
  42. Hellraiser3448
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Changing my rating from 3 to 0, because it came to light that Egosoft tried to use the PC customers for testing some XBOX360 stuff. No wonder the game is that bad.
  43. mizipzor
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    After having spent 12 hours in the game, I feel violated.

    The minor issues can be overlooked, its a rushed game that suffers from crashes, glitching campaign that gets you stuck and bugs that requires you to restart it. But the major errors cannot simply be patched. The game is fundamentally flawed in virtually every way. My biggest annoyance was the horrendous user interface. Radial    After having spent 12 hours in the game, I feel violated.

    The minor issues can be overlooked, its a rushed game that suffers from crashes, glitching campaign that gets you stuck and bugs that requires you to restart it.

    But the major errors cannot simply be patched. The game is fundamentally flawed in virtually every way. My biggest annoyance was the horrendous user interface. Radial menus, delays after every click, stuff awkwardly broken up into pages, small font in low contrast.

    This game gets the lowest score possible, out of the weekend I spent with it I didn't enjoy a single minute. I registered here just to write this.

    Do NOT, under any circumstances, buy this game.    … Expand
  44. Starwolf_N
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I think I have played played most space exploratory/trade games released since Elite on C64. I have liked avery other X-game. But this one fails misserably on most fields. The only forgiving feature is space. The graphics there is just great. But great graphics doesn't make great games. great content does. Inuitive interface does, tools to help you navigate your environment does.
    I just    I think I have played played most space exploratory/trade games released since Elite on C64. I have liked avery other X-game. But this one fails misserably on most fields. The only forgiving feature is space. The graphics there is just great. But great graphics doesn't make great games. great content does. Inuitive interface does, tools to help you navigate your environment does.
    I just can't wrap my head around the need to search and scan space stations for trade points. If you have goods to sell you better make it easy to find. it is like a compartmentalized mall. If you want to trade that stuff you need to exit, walk across the parking lot and you'll find a entrance behind the smelly dumpster. Any sensible station designer would make a single entry point i.e. a large hangar visible miles away.
    There is too many things in this game that does not make sense and I will not repeat them here as they have been mentioned by numberous other on both Steam and Egosofts own forums. Skip this and wait for Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen. If you can't wait. Buy or go back to one of the previous X-games. They are all very good to great.    … Expand
  45. plchung3
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    This is just ridiculous. The game is obviously unfinished and untested and EGOSOFT just releases it to recover the financial loss. I have played the previous X3 TC and X Rebirth is no way comparable to it.
  46. ferretz
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I used to believe Egosoft made the X series as it is what THEY wanted to play. It has never been perfect but i've loved it. This game though was made for their grandchildren.

    8 hours in, awful design decisions, mini games and over simplification become the X legacy. There are 4 different weapons. There is no point making money as there is nothing to do with it. There is the god    I used to believe Egosoft made the X series as it is what THEY wanted to play. It has never been perfect but i've loved it. This game though was made for their grandchildren.

    8 hours in, awful design decisions, mini games and over simplification become the X legacy. There are 4 different weapons. There is no point making money as there is nothing to do with it. There is the god awful plot and all this before I even start on the station interiors.

    No issue with performance, only crashes every couple of hours.    … Expand
  47. isepick
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Having played all X games as they came out from X:BTF, I am very saddened by this release. I pre-ordered because I had faith in Egosoft. This game has so many fundamental *design* flaws that there really is no hope that I can see for it. Flying in space is pretty so perhaps they can take the engine and make X4, but the core game play of X: Stillbirth is so bad that I doubt any amount ofHaving played all X games as they came out from X:BTF, I am very saddened by this release. I pre-ordered because I had faith in Egosoft. This game has so many fundamental *design* flaws that there really is no hope that I can see for it. Flying in space is pretty so perhaps they can take the engine and make X4, but the core game play of X: Stillbirth is so bad that I doubt any amount of modding will ever make it right.

    It is obvious they designed it for consoles, and I'd bet all the money in my 401k we'll see PS4 and XBONE ports directly. Sad, because the X series was always a pc based complex trading game. I loved them for that, spent thousands of hours of my life playing the series.

    They kept the game under tight wraps, didn't even send out review copies until release day. Now we know why. Egosoft will never get another dime from me. Hopefully Star Citizen or Elite will fill the void for a fun space sim, because this game never will.    … Expand
  48. Frisian
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    in my honest opinion from playing this game and backed by finds within the game code I believe this is a failed console project of which the remnants were hastily patched together and sold to the unsuspecting PC crowd to cut the losses. in my eyes, a scam like this isn't even worth a proper review.
  49. userodion
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Utterly rubbish game, not worth the asking price of £40. Either egosoft purposely chose not to hire a Quality Assurance team or they knew about the bugs but rushed this game out before the Christmas dead line.
    The campaign is unplayable, bug after bug after bug. I feel like I have paid £40 to beta test the game for them.
    You can only fly one ship, there are only two commands to control    Utterly rubbish game, not worth the asking price of £40. Either egosoft purposely chose not to hire a Quality Assurance team or they knew about the bugs but rushed this game out before the Christmas dead line.
    The campaign is unplayable, bug after bug after bug. I feel like I have paid £40 to beta test the game for them.
    You can only fly one ship, there are only two commands to control the ships/fleet you buy/capture and they don’t work. The dialog is repetitive, tedious and annoying. (You thought Skyrims ‘arrow to the knee’ was bad you have not seen anything yet).
    All the station look the same inside, and it looks like women in the future are all undergoing cancer treatment or egosoft has no idea how to program hair physics
    Trading is buggy and does not work, the enemy system is buggy to the point you get punished for defending yourself from attacking enemies and so can only run away.
    Performance on high end PC is bad with an fps of 10-20.
    I strongly recommend you do not buy this game, this is not a £40 game.
    Egosoft you have literally stole from you costumers and should feel ashamed of yourself.    … Expand
  50. iforgotmysocks
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I just can't describe how dissapointed, sad and angry i am.
    Egosoft just ripped out every single awesome aspect of previous games and left a dumb spaceshooter for easiely satisfied kids....

    I fear there won't be a coming back from what they have done.
    Our loved X series high likely came to an end.
  51. jobexxx
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    This game is an early Alpha ,maybe.

    The trade system is buggy and useless, the campaign simply does not work and it is just a matter of time until you get stuck because of one of the various bugs. Egosoft have not tested this game. Do not buy.
  52. scumlord
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Ok, I have never posted on Metacritic before but feel the need now because of this BLATANTLY false advertising of X-STILLBORN. This game is NOTHING like the previous X games; EGOCRAP took the beautiful complexity of the game and dumbed it down to sell it to the console crowd. They took everything that made the X universe so vast and 'sandboxy' and turned it into 4 space stations, flyingOk, I have never posted on Metacritic before but feel the need now because of this BLATANTLY false advertising of X-STILLBORN. This game is NOTHING like the previous X games; EGOCRAP took the beautiful complexity of the game and dumbed it down to sell it to the console crowd. They took everything that made the X universe so vast and 'sandboxy' and turned it into 4 space stations, flying of only 1 ship, no camera views, no remote management of resources in an ordered manner, etc... the list goes on. DO NOT BUY and DO NOT SUPPORT EGOSOFT going forth. They knew this product was fecal matter but wanted to push the product out. They had 7 years to develop this. 7 years!! WTF were they doing?… Expand
  53. Rhodie
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Like a lot of the people posting reviews here I am in utter shock. I too counted down the days until the release of this so called masterpiece. Huge fan of the x series all the way back to beyond the frontier. Its crazy how dissapointing this game turned out. I will give egosoft one more chance but they have to fix this. More than one ship can be piloted including caps we need to have aLike a lot of the people posting reviews here I am in utter shock. I too counted down the days until the release of this so called masterpiece. Huge fan of the x series all the way back to beyond the frontier. Its crazy how dissapointing this game turned out. I will give egosoft one more chance but they have to fix this. More than one ship can be piloted including caps we need to have a working map system a way to find your own ships dispersed among the sectors a targeting system much like the previous games. A ship view and camera changing aspect to see other ships in detail and your own from third person, joystick support and fix all these damn bugs that keep me from playing the game longer than an hour and having to restart I'm fine with the graphics I can live with that. But seriously seven years to develop and it extremepoor in content and interface I want my money back as well. But if these things do not get fixed I will never ever purchase another game from egosofy… Expand
  54. sirpug
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Marketing and pricing suggests this game should be up to par with similar titles released in 2013. Don't let it fool you, this game should a free alpha from the mid-2000's at best. The only positive thing I can say is that the space environments would be beautiful except for the fact that 50% of the screen is blocked by a functionally useless HUD. I can without a doubt say that this isMarketing and pricing suggests this game should be up to par with similar titles released in 2013. Don't let it fool you, this game should a free alpha from the mid-2000's at best. The only positive thing I can say is that the space environments would be beautiful except for the fact that 50% of the screen is blocked by a functionally useless HUD. I can without a doubt say that this is the worst game I've ever had the pleasure of paying money for:

    1. Textures inside the ship and station are not hi-res.
    2. Stations have one of about three different interiors.
    3. NPCs have about a dozen or so different model/textures, need I mention the legions of old hags?
    4. Taking items from crates/lockers is fun for about 2 seconds.
    5. The only actual conversation option with NPCs involves persuading them that being racist vs Teladi is wrong.
    6. Hacking stations for trading is also fun for about 2 seconds, no impact on story or universe.
    7. Movement of the main character walking into the is nauseating.
    8. No variety: One ugly ship to fly the entire game. Very limited variety of "upgrades" (ie. Mk I, Mk II, Mk III, etc.). Limited amount of weapons (5?)
    9. User interface for space trading is non-intuitive and confusing.
    10. NPCs repeat the same dialog "Show me your wares please" "These highways weren't here 40 years ago" "Shut up Betty" over and over and over.

    The list goes on, but the bottom line is that the marketing campaign was an outright lie. This shell of a "game" is definitely not worth the price tag.    … Expand
  55. Absolutely
    Nov 23, 2013
    0
    game advertised with lies, promises, unreal gameplay. ended up with unfinished features, bugs, lags... etc etc...also new updates coming out daily and desperately but without any fix at all making game more unable to play. all i can see about this game that has brilliand advertisement, preorders, sale and unreal game review to trick people to buy the game. TERRIBLE, do not buy it
  56. mcmaul
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I cannot award this game any points as it is not a finished product. Day one of release the CEO of Egosoft submitted a public apology for bugs that they state managed to slip through. I find it hard to believe Egosoft released a product that they felt was finished given the sheer quantity of bugs and their effect on gameplay. You simply cannot play this game more than a couple of hoursI cannot award this game any points as it is not a finished product. Day one of release the CEO of Egosoft submitted a public apology for bugs that they state managed to slip through. I find it hard to believe Egosoft released a product that they felt was finished given the sheer quantity of bugs and their effect on gameplay. You simply cannot play this game more than a couple of hours without running into a fleet of game breaking bugs. The only real minigame I've found is the one where you alt tab to research workarounds for the broken core mechanics you run into every 15 minutes.

    Egosoft, had you released this as a $50 beta to play test and help refine while building your funding I could have easily given this game an 8 as a work in progress and would have happily watched as it grew.

    Instead you attached a premium price tag to a broken game that you shamelessly peddled as "a new title to bring life back to the genre". The way you have marketed this game and opened it up to consumers profiting from a game not broken, but rather not nearly finished, is downright criminal. I hope Steam recognizes this and preserves their integrity by distancing themselves from you, your product, and removes your game from their selection until you can get your act together.    … Expand
  57. Hypergau
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I tried to play on an absolutely high end PC with three monitors (not supported). I cannot believe that this people finally killed every hope for a revival of my beloved space games (I am 52 years old and played Elite and Wing Commander and many other games having a lot of fun). Where to start? Space looks like a garbage can or is completely overloaded. The characters are very badlyI tried to play on an absolutely high end PC with three monitors (not supported). I cannot believe that this people finally killed every hope for a revival of my beloved space games (I am 52 years old and played Elite and Wing Commander and many other games having a lot of fun). Where to start? Space looks like a garbage can or is completely overloaded. The characters are very badly animated. Have they never seen other games such as Half Life or L.A.Noire? I use a SideWinder, Mouse and Keyboard but clicking is somehow without sense. And this ***ing flight through this space routes. Difficult to get out, but somehow you do. Then you are somewhere and they ask you to go to another. I bought the special edition and I am sure that I will remove the game from my disk within the next ten days. I do not believe that there is any chance to make that thing become an enjoyable game.… Expand
  58. Neilos
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Dear Egosoft,

    Here is some money, please develop X4.

    Yours Sincerely,

    A hacked off customer

    "Shut up Betty!" just why, why, why WHY! So much why, just why...
  59. Cappy
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I actually made an account just to write a review for this game. Utter crap.

    If anyone remembers Sword of the Stars 2, this is comparable to their launch. They have admitted that they have not optimized the game for anything above mid range computers. They also lied to the community saying it was NOT a port, but they left files in their game showing they attempted a console version    I actually made an account just to write a review for this game. Utter crap.

    If anyone remembers Sword of the Stars 2, this is comparable to their launch.

    They have admitted that they have not optimized the game for anything above mid range computers. They also lied to the community saying it was NOT a port, but they left files in their game showing they attempted a console version (Xbox 360) and backed out and released it on PC as a port, even though, they said IT WAS NOT A PORT.

    **** liars of a company. There are MULTIPLE missions that you are also not able to complete in the campaign.    … Expand
  60. Illidianz
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    This game isn't even an X game, has nothing to do with previous games, seems like they wanted to make an x game for console but didn't want to start in the middle of a series so they started with this bad game; thus why there isn't an x4 in the title. Problem is, it was so bad and xbox refused this game so they said, well, lets just relabel it as a PC game, add some PC libraries to theThis game isn't even an X game, has nothing to do with previous games, seems like they wanted to make an x game for console but didn't want to start in the middle of a series so they started with this bad game; thus why there isn't an x4 in the title. Problem is, it was so bad and xbox refused this game so they said, well, lets just relabel it as a PC game, add some PC libraries to the game and poof, profit.....as you can see, this score reflects what users think of this game, It is horrid, when the game devs finally do die, i hope there's a place in hell for them where they will be forced to play ET for the atari 2600 for eternity...… Expand
  61. Tziel
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I would love for this game to be the next great space sim but it just isn't. Everything about it just feels unfinished as if they waited till the day before release to scramble and throw together anything they had lying around. I am so sorry Egosoft but I just can't support this one.
  62. wolp2306
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    This game is in early alpha phase. to many bugs. no fun to play at the moment. give it some months, the community modder will fix the most problems that egosoft cant do. shame on you egosoft!
  63. Kadera
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I bought X Rebirth hoping for a game to tide me over until Star Citizen came out, and I totally regret the decision. I don't think I've ever seen a game less ready for release or so visually dated from first launch.

    (I'll contrast that with my lack of regret in buying the X-Superbox combination pack. Just so you know this all isn't just because I have no appreciation for the X-Universe    I bought X Rebirth hoping for a game to tide me over until Star Citizen came out, and I totally regret the decision. I don't think I've ever seen a game less ready for release or so visually dated from first launch.

    (I'll contrast that with my lack of regret in buying the X-Superbox combination pack. Just so you know this all isn't just because I have no appreciation for the X-Universe games.)

    Okay, so outer space is pretty and well rendered but so was X3 Reunion (2005). However, it looks to me like they're using the same nearly-unmodified rendering engine for Rebirth, especially when you consider the appearance of NPCs. The first Mass Effect game (Unreal Engine) came out in 2008, and the characters in there look a hundred times more realistic than the six identical fugly NPC clones occupying all of X Rebirth's space stations. I can live with lousy voice acting, but really, these NPCs look like half-melted mannikin mutants who flap the lower halves of their aliasing-fractured faces in lieu of speech.

    To add insult to injury, the awful station and NPC graphics apparently (at present) are so demanding, people are reporting lousy framerates, glitches, and crashes. I'm managing okay, but I have a very high-end system.

    More than a few people have found numerous XBox-specific configs in the game files, lending further credence to the prevailing internet theories that X Rebirth was supposed to be released for the XBox 360 in 2007 or '08, failed to hit the mark, and was shelved until quite recently. Then rushed to ship in a frenzy of marketing and misleading game trailers. Maybe they added a few tweaks (yet kept the Directx 9.0c, also dated), did not bother to include joystick support (despite claiming such in their game manual), and made dozens of incredibly poor design decisions such as forcing you to leave your ship and walk to NPCs to get them to sell you stuff. And making you fly all around station exteriors just to get prices. I guess the Powers That Be in the far distant future decided that convenient multi-product, multi-vendor portals like Amazon were just too convenient as are radios and the Internet.

    The future also appears to have lost such technology fundamentals such as ship radar, usable 3D maps, and heads-up displays. But hey, what can one expect with crew members who look less realistic than characters from the Simpsons.

    I honestly can't believe this is a game released in 2013. It is SO not ready, the gameplay design is full of totally inconvenient and immersion-breaking nonsense (really? I'm supposed to loot boxes and air-ducts?), and the non-space graphics are incredibly dated.

    Maybe after the bugs are patched and the modders get at it (as they have with previous X-Universe games), it'll become playable and bearable. But for now, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Save your money and wait.

    I'm with reviewer Macscorner: I wish I'd instead just given the money to a homeless person. Even if they ran off and bought a bottle of vodka with it, at least someone would have received pleasure from the purchase.    … Expand
  64. Gallient
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    As everyone else is saying this is a failed console game ported to the PC to scam a quick buck off unwary consumers. If you are a fan of the X games then stay away from this, it is an X game in little more than name. Return policies have made this kind of scam practice of selling an unfinished, falsely marketed game absolutely viable and boy does egosoft take advantage of that. I simplyAs everyone else is saying this is a failed console game ported to the PC to scam a quick buck off unwary consumers. If you are a fan of the X games then stay away from this, it is an X game in little more than name. Return policies have made this kind of scam practice of selling an unfinished, falsely marketed game absolutely viable and boy does egosoft take advantage of that. I simply cannot justify any higher than a 0 rating from a clear scam, even if they manage to make it playable with patches it will in no way change the fact that they perpetuated a complete lie to sell pre-orders to their now former fan base.… Expand
  65. Dalruin
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I pre-purchased this game much to my chagrin. It has delivered on almost nothing promised. I despise games that take steps backwards. If its predecessor had the features, I believe there is no reason for a game not to have a feature, or an enhanced version of, or better feature. that being said, here are the reasons for my abyssmal rating:

    Joystick/M+Kb: At the start as soon as i    I pre-purchased this game much to my chagrin. It has delivered on almost nothing promised. I despise games that take steps backwards. If its predecessor had the features, I believe there is no reason for a game not to have a feature, or an enhanced version of, or better feature. that being said, here are the reasons for my abyssmal rating:

    Joystick/M+Kb: At the start as soon as i realize the ship would not fly, I went into customize the keybindings. Imagine my surprise when I realized this game has a handful at best. For a PC game, the lack of pretty much any keybinding of crucial actions is a joke. You can change how to open a menu, fire some weapons, cycle between weapons. Movement is not included in this. It took me over 20-40 minutes to find a way to make my joystick work, and even then it worked poorly.

    Dated/unomptimized Graphics: The graphics in space are decent, but nothing out of the ordinary for a PC game for this age; However, the FPS in space is a joke, and likes to randomly flucuate between 15-40 at sometimes rapid intervals. This is unacceptable to me and I have never seen a game do it to such a degree on a high end gaming rig. The NPC's are worse than what you would find in Halflife 1. The bodies are not at all well designed and the faces are all that of an old woman or covered by goofy visors or helmets.

    "1 Ship to rule them all!" We knew this coming in if you read different interviews or forums, but no where on the advertising or steam page was it mentioned with good reason. This would have been a game killer for many people, including me had i done more research before pre-ordering. They went from having a variety of ships and weapons in previous X titles, to limiting you to 1 with a poor selection of weapons. But do not worry, you get drones! Like that made up for it.

    Gameplay: the tutorial is finicky, and nothing seems to go as intended. God forbid you don't hear a command or can't quite read the objectives text due to its tiny font before it disappears and you are wondering WTF you were supposed to do. Trade is atrocious and half the time your trade freighter flies in a circular loop as its pilot tries to insert his head up his behind. There is no such thing as targeting and the blocks what feels like 40% of your screen so dogfighting is unnecessarily annoying. You cannot play the game and look at info at the same time, as your character feels that he should look down or at otherwise oversized panels to look at where to buy and sell twinkies. And god forbid you actually to buy said twinkies.

    BUGS: bugs galore in this game, everywhere, crashing it, making you constantly save and reload less the next step in the plot hits a snag or you get launched into the sphincter of space do to some weird space highway magical mishap.

    All in all, this game looks, feels, and plays like a horrid watered down console port over. I do not understand why it took 7 years to develop something like this or why the devs would even try to brag about the length of time it took them to develop such garbage.    … Expand
  66. LordPenny
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Epic Fail,

    I can handle, bugs, quirks and some save games failing, having to restart now and then to restore perfomance, getting stuck in lockers, grates, vents, some missions not working, ie escort freighter to XYZ to watch it get stuck on a station... enough to get most people riled up, i know egosoft will fix it but after a couple days of solid play you cant do whats advertised,    Epic Fail,

    I can handle, bugs, quirks and some save games failing, having to restart now and then to restore perfomance, getting stuck in lockers, grates, vents, some missions not working, ie escort freighter to XYZ to watch it get stuck on a station... enough to get most people riled up, i know egosoft will fix it but after a couple days of solid play you cant do whats advertised, trading horrific if it works, you have no control of stations which bleed cash, 90% of the fighitng is bland and unimagantive or dosent work. Its looks like slap dash console failed attempt at console game thrown onto the PC.

    Even when its all fixed sadly i don think this is game i will enjoy like previous titles, i think most people feel very mislead. shame it has the glimmers of really great game.    … Expand
  67. Torok
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    This game is BAD, poorly optimized, buggy as very few games have been at release, on the scale of WarZ
    Game runs on 32 bit, dx9 and ram usage is capped at 2Gbs when they clearly ask you for 6 8 gbs in the minimum reccomended systems, are they serious?
    Have to relog every hour or so because of memory leaks, heavy stuttering (I have 12 gbs DDR3 Corsair jeez!) The graphic looks bad,    This game is BAD, poorly optimized, buggy as very few games have been at release, on the scale of WarZ
    Game runs on 32 bit, dx9 and ram usage is capped at 2Gbs when they clearly ask you for 6 8 gbs in the minimum reccomended systems, are they serious?
    Have to relog every hour or so because of memory leaks, heavy stuttering (I have 12 gbs DDR3 Corsair jeez!)
    The graphic looks bad, especially the shaders, In the first 2 days I had to exchange savegames twice with a friend because we both couldn't succeed in certain Campaign missions due to gamebreaking bugs such as trade ships not working not moving.

    The game is Broken, Players and modders will save it, hopefully along several patches hotfixes from the developers.

    The game does not deserve to be bought until it's price is cut in half and fixed.
    One of the worst launches in the gaming history for a game of this scale.    … Expand
  68. michaelyak
    Nov 22, 2013
    0
    I've lowered my score to 1 for the following reasons:

    1. It's been one week and they released their 6th patch. It's causing even more crashes then before. 2. I purchased through Steam and no one has responded to my requests for credit. Yay Steam. 3. IF you want to buy this game I highly suggest you read the forums. The DEVS have been editing the forums because there is so much hate    I've lowered my score to 1 for the following reasons:

    1. It's been one week and they released their 6th patch. It's causing even more crashes then before.
    2. I purchased through Steam and no one has responded to my requests for credit. Yay Steam.
    3. IF you want to buy this game I highly suggest you read the forums. The DEVS have been editing the forums because there is so much hate out there for this game but you will still find some informative posts.
    4. This was an xbox game gone bad. Nowhere pc ready.

    In closing: I'm not a hater just trying to be honest. Save your money..    … Expand
  69. G4ze
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Having played for 20 hours now i can safely tell you this isn't a true X game. If you look very closely at both the fact this game has 7 years in development and that it's originally designed for xbox you'll realize they knew it failed. It failed and they released it for PC. Sure, the visuals are nice, but the game doesn't even fit within the lure of other X games.

    First and foremost    Having played for 20 hours now i can safely tell you this isn't a true X game. If you look very closely at both the fact this game has 7 years in development and that it's originally designed for xbox you'll realize they knew it failed. It failed and they released it for PC. Sure, the visuals are nice, but the game doesn't even fit within the lure of other X games.

    First and foremost the game doesn't even work. For $50 on opening day that is abysmally bad. Trading is terribly hard to do and buggy. Boarding ships is bugged. AI is buggy. Campaign is buggy. I'm not sure anything really works as intended except the highways and missiles.

    The game wasn't originally X. Think about it; 7 years in development? It's just a generic space game for consoles that 2 years ago when Egosoft (so ironic of a name) announced it and presumably spent all this time pasting X lure all over the game. The ships aren't the same however. The guns don't even follow similar naming schemes (a whopping all 4 of them) nor do aaaaaall 4 missile types. The races aren't even all there anymore. Don't even bother trying to control capital ships either. It's mind-boggling how bad and hard it is to make them do what you want. On a side note, you're locked to one ship and you must walk around copy pasted stations to get anything done.

    Playing this game is like strangling an elephant by hand; damn near impossible.
    It might be worth $10-15 only because of the nice scenery it offers you. For me; i wish i had a refund.    … Expand
  70. vexzidane
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Just for this game I made an account because I really wanted to give it a 0.
    Seriously give my money back, the game is broken.
    I smell a console game that din't work and they just patched it up, trew it on the pc to make some money. This is an utter scam, 7 years of development....... sure..... - allot of stations yup true but only what maybe 4 models? - npc jup allot of them but    Just for this game I made an account because I really wanted to give it a 0.
    Seriously give my money back, the game is broken.
    I smell a console game that din't work and they just patched it up, trew it on the pc to make some money.
    This is an utter scam, 7 years of development....... sure.....

    - allot of stations yup true but only what maybe 4 models?
    - npc jup allot of them but only maybe 8 models? and they all look 100 years old.
    - trading? ye.... no not realy your trade ships have the IQ of a chipmunk. With 0 response unless you wanne reload your game 10 times for every trade.
    - dogfighting..... ye sure... in the 1 ship you have that you can't mod and weapons that you don't even have a clue about what they are good for.
    - this is a game were the bugs are nothing compared to the bad programming and UTTER scam that this company pulled off.    … Expand
  71. ed_jpa
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Ok, this is the best starting point for any X:Rebirth review: This is not, I repeat, this is NOT an X-series game. Anyone who played any of the X games will know that. They "consolized" it, they ripped it off of the best features, they introduced features that are not only useless, but also (and especially) NOT FUN at all. I will not enumerate these, because lots of other ppl already did.Ok, this is the best starting point for any X:Rebirth review: This is not, I repeat, this is NOT an X-series game. Anyone who played any of the X games will know that. They "consolized" it, they ripped it off of the best features, they introduced features that are not only useless, but also (and especially) NOT FUN at all. I will not enumerate these, because lots of other ppl already did.

    I made an account here just to be able to say this, because in 30 years of gaming I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A BAD RELEASE!

    And that is not even what pisses me off the most, because besides the game being something impossible to describe, it is SO OBVIOUS that they knew of all of the problems the game had. Why else were there no reviews or previews? Come on, 7 years in the making and NO ONE in the specialized mass media could test it? Hmm, I wonder why...

    What are these guys on egosoft trying to do? Putting out another unfinished game (the most unfinished game in the X universe ever)? And I s*it you not, this is so bad and unfinished that even when the modders and everyone else in this fabulous community that lives around the X series fixes it, it will still be AGES away from any of the other X's. Why? Because no matter how optimized modders will make this, no matter how many scripts ppl will come up with to make trade systems usable, no matter how many new ships to use ppl will provide, this game is broken from the start from an X pc player perspective.

    So, remember this and let's talk a year from now: EGOSOFT WANTS THE MODDING COMMUNITY TO TRANSFORM THIS PILE OF INTO A CONSOLE PLAYABLE GAME. They provided the starting point, a bad console game. And a very bad one at that. Modders will optimize it (as they always did with other games of the series, and egosoft always did use the modding community's work on their next release), and Egosoft will try to put this S*H*I*T*T*Y mirrored image of an X game in PS4 or/and Xbox one. I cant think of any other explanation. I really can't.

    I mean, take out SETA and the gates, even if it doesnt work well in the game, I get that the intentions may be good. They want ppl to play more, instead of just looking at the map and giving autopilot orders. I mean, some of the new features could eventually work in the game. Space is definitely bigger this way, without sectors as before. but all of the other things... For instance, the interface? THE INTERFACE, MY GOD??? Why should I be forced to run through 5 menus and submenus just to ask someone where the nearest drone trader is???? And needing to get within 1 meter of any station to get the info... I mean, in 2013 we have the internet and information flows through our head at the speed of light, and in whenever in the future egosoft wants to put us, we need to scratch the paint of our ship on a station to know what they do there. And there are no computers or cell phones, so ppl WILL HAVE TO GO AND WALK MINDLESSLY through deserted space stations to do things that today dont even force me to get up my couch in my living room. Ppl do not want to talk to npc's just to buy or sell stuff, ESPECIALLY if these npc's are ugly models with bad textures, always in the same spot, not moving, and inside "space stations" that besides being empty and ugly and buggy, seem to be the same exact station everywhere. Look, if this was something you COULD do in game, it would be nice. It is not nice because it is something you HAVE to do, especially when what you in fact want to do (sell/buy something) could and should be something you would do from a distance or without having to manually search for a merchant. No Amazon or Ebay-like things in Egosoft's future, I guess...

    Come on egosoft. If you wanted to make the X series easier to get into (and I agree with that idea, its not very cool to need 2 weeks of tutorials and youtube videos to learn the basics of a game, and thats what I had to do when I got into the X universe), you KNOW this was not the way to do it. It wouldnt be that hard to make a GOOD tutorial to the best mechanics that emerged from X:3. And new plots. New ships. New features. What you made is not that. And I am not saying that is entirely bad, I mean, if you wanted to make a new game, thats up to you guys. BUT DONT CALL IT X.

    This is not an X game. I'm not talking about the bugs and the 10 fps in quad core-8gbram-2gb gpu machines; I mean, thats bad enough, to launch something in that state. But to trick the people that helped you make the last 5 or 6 games in this series into thinking you were working on a new game for them, when you actually were making something both NEW and EXTREMELY BAD... Well, that is just sad. Optimize it and mod it all you can, I think this will never be an X game.

    X series modders: Unite in any way and make what X:4 should be. It cannot be that hard, considering everything this community made so far. Forget Egosoft, they lost all the respect they deserved after this.    … Expand
  72. Mogz909
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Well I had waited for many many years for the resurrection of the X series. I had poured many many hours into X3:TC and could not wait for X:Rebirth so I pre-ordered. It pre-installed fine without issue and thats where the good things ended...

    I have rated this a fat whooping zero. The reasons are as follows... 1. This 'game' was designed for a console and when Xbox said no, they    Well I had waited for many many years for the resurrection of the X series. I had poured many many hours into X3:TC and could not wait for X:Rebirth so I pre-ordered. It pre-installed fine without issue and thats where the good things ended...

    I have rated this a fat whooping zero. The reasons are as follows...

    1. This 'game' was designed for a console and when Xbox said no, they decided to port it to PC. There are hordes of Xbox entries in the files. This is confirmed by the use of a 'game controller' not a joystick that 99% of us actually use.
    2. Trading This is how to make a giant leap back to the past while holding a brown paper bag over your head. Too many steps back and this is now counter-intuitive, buggy as hell and quite frankly not fit to wipe my bum. I cannot even cancel a trade request, I must load the previous save or edit the savegame file while offline.
    3. The controller setup I cannot even map simple keys to my keyboard because this was designed for the Xbox not PC.
    4. No Radar WTF seriously? A 4x space game with no visible radar to use while in combat makes it obsolete in the eyes of gamers. Even Elite had a radar you could use easily.
    5. No Joystick support nice way to frustrate and annoy all your customer base.
    6. Docking Again proof that this was for the console community, no manual docking anymore this is for the idiots who cant fly close to other ships.
    7. Entering the stations Again a pointless 'visual feature' where you must wander aimlessly around a station looking for people to speak to/barter with.

    I could go on but I feel I am wasting my time. Maybe in 6mths to a year this game maybe working but its doubtful and I suspect the X community will have to fix all the things that Egosoft broke.    … Expand
  73. SHy
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    1 ship, no optimization, vanilla characters, a lot of bugs, everything slows, version for pc??? give me a break if it not for PC DO NOT sell it like pc version!!! waited so long, so afraid of what will be and that's so but so much that it is better to play x3, DO NOT BUY IT!!! wanted to give a 3, but 3 has to be earned, even 1 a lot, because the price of 50
  74. Specknacken
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I am sick of companies releasing unfinished and overpriced games. Compared to previous X releases, I wonder what made them develop this absolutely broken game?
    There's almost no interaction with your owned ships, the AI is non existent and don't even bother visit more than one station.
    They al look exactly the same. Which also complies to the NPC's. They have about the same quality    I am sick of companies releasing unfinished and overpriced games. Compared to previous X releases, I wonder what made them develop this absolutely broken game?
    There's almost no interaction with your owned ships, the AI is non existent and don't even bother visit more than one station.
    They al look exactly the same. Which also complies to the NPC's. They have about the same quality from... I don't know. Jedi Knight maybe? Lizard eyed, bald, creepy freaks...
    There were literally THOUSANDS of posts from people reporting game-breaking bugs and ranting about missing features in the first two days alone.
    Whoever rates this a 10/10 points must be completely delusional, or working for the company that's responsible for this messy game.
    If you are thinking about buying this game, do yourself a favour and take a closer look at it half a year from now. Then maybe the bugs will be wiped out, although because of the mass of those, I heavily doubt it.    … Expand
  75. nabla
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    This game is awful. It is so terrible, I cannot express in words. I really wanted to like this game, but it is simply impossible. NPC modelling and animation from hell (or at least from somewhere before 1998). This is really f*cking ridiculous. And wtf did they think when designing the UI? Computers have mouse and keyboard, and they give us a circular menu that I can't even read on aThis game is awful. It is so terrible, I cannot express in words. I really wanted to like this game, but it is simply impossible. NPC modelling and animation from hell (or at least from somewhere before 1998). This is really f*cking ridiculous. And wtf did they think when designing the UI? Computers have mouse and keyboard, and they give us a circular menu that I can't even read on a screen resolution of 1600x1200 because the text is so tiny? Not to mention the names of the NPC which are even harder to read. Come on, you can't be serious??!!… Expand
  76. MaxCrest
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Most of it has been said already, so I'll talk about "feel" more than the specific game mechanics and problems, since the old X series made you "feel" like you were in space with all possibilities at your fingertips. No more!

    X used to feel huge. You "felt" space, the emptyness, the distances. No more and the reason is the highways. Space may be a lot larger now, but since you use    Most of it has been said already, so I'll talk about "feel" more than the specific game mechanics and problems, since the old X series made you "feel" like you were in space with all possibilities at your fingertips. No more!

    X used to feel huge. You "felt" space, the emptyness, the distances. No more and the reason is the highways. Space may be a lot larger now, but since you use highways from zone to zone, and you see (nearly) nothing from the highway, you essentially only fly around in these zones. Stations are very close and traffic is dense: Not the vastness I used to love anymore.
    For me, exploring is seeing something tiny in the distance and flying closer to explore. Not seeing something clearly and just fly a little closer. Oh, and it is not flying close to the module, but close to the "i" icon: If you happen to be at the other side of the module, you don't see the "i" and learn nothing.

    Another thing about the highways: Where do the 100's of ships come from that are flying in it??? They are definitely not entering them and definitely not existing them. They are only "spawned" there for the mini-game. Not only this ruins the feel of a "real galaxy", but also this: Why the F are they all so much faster than you? In the zones this is not the case, so what kind of "secret" technology do they have that our ship hasn't??? Again, a big immersion breaker.

    "Immersion" was available in the old X in spades. And talking to people on stations would be fine if we would actually build a relationship that would aid us in the future, not for 1 trade:S Talking is therefore a small gimmick for a single bonus and not the long-term investment that you could make. A simple "station-module" rating would have brought this better: Trade a lot with a module, or do missions for them and you gain rating, gaining bonuses and discounts. .

    Then there is this "real" economy they are praising on about. Well, why can't AI controlled modules/companies go bankrupt then? Do they have infinite funds? Apparently so. They could have invested a few months in bankrupcy and AI creation of new stations/modules to flow with demand. If you, as a player, would disrupt production of let's say Energy Cells, other modules would go bankrupt and new solarfarms would be created by AI to meet demands.

    Then there is the "building an empire": How? How the hell are you going to manage 60 ships, dozens of stations and so on. Most players can't get there single trader to do what we want. I can't see this will be possible.

    Then there is the "looting" on stations. How are we suppose to feel immersed in a simulation of a real world when you can loot without punishment. And not only do we have 1 locker somewhere that is unlocked either. No, you can loot ALL lockers. This makes no sense in a simulation and completely ruins immersion.
    Even more so, how am I carrying all that loot??? There's spacesuits, entertainment consoles and many other things I'm looting. How the hell do I sneak that stuff out and how is it fitting in a small box or a locker in the first place?

    Then there is the inside of your ship. Yeah, we can walk around in to... Oh sorry, but not in your of course. And nothing works or interacts in your ship. Okay, so then we will simply enjoy "our" ship by the looks you might think? Wrong again! The textures are at horrible, and I do mean HORRIBLE resolutions. Why??? Even if they don't have the money to create elaborate textures, using simple textures at high-res is not more expensive that simple textures at low-res. Drawing them in hi-res takes the same amount of time. My only conclusion is that their engine performs SO BADLY that they had to do this to make the game even run at the sh*tty framerate they now have. Must be a very bad engine is my conclusion!

    Then about the characters on stations. Why not build a character generator? Nice for a player to customize the avatar AND the solution to randomize NPCs in stations.

    And another thing about the NPCs. Why am I trading a 1000 space suits with a woman in a lockerroom??? Where is she storing them? Shouldn't she have like a warehouse or shop or something? Would have made the stations a lot nicer to.

    One final thing: If you have a bad reputation, ships will start attacking you. If you fight back in order to save your life, your rep becomes even worse. How are you EVER going to get a better reputation after that? It becomes a vicious circle that you cannot get out of. Good luck with that!

    To conclude my rant: There is no depth to the world. None! Most new features are about single advantages and add nothing real to the game. The only thing that remains is your reputation, which isn't new to X. Space became larger and small at the same time. It has become a chain of mini-games (highway, sweet-talking, fly-by's) that push the "sandbox" to the background and frustrate you with "chores", not "adventures".

    My advise: Play X3 with the XRM or Elite or Star Citizen for combats. Stay away!    … Expand
  77. ericdn
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Stay away friends. This game is trash on trash. 50 bucks is a lot of money, but I am even more disappointed by the fact I have been looking forward to this trash for 6 months. Trash trash trash!
  78. MetalS0ldier
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Buyer beware! (very minor, vague spoilers follow, just thought I'd mention that to those who are.. picky.)

    Many people expecting the gameplay of previous games in the series WILL be severely disappointed. X:Rebirth has apparently attempted a new, and poorly informed direction, and no one knows why.

    As a first time X series player, with no previous expectations, I am superbly put off by this game, and shocked that they are allowed to charge the price that they do for this amount of low quality.

    Let's outline some of the areas where you'll probably be annoyed.

    First thing's first, as you take control of your ship, you immediately notice the horrible voice acting and rotten, choppy framerate.

    I have an obscenely well built custom computer which i take a bit of pride in, and running the game on maximum graphics causes it to have a choppy, unplayable framerate. Every so often, you notice the graphics engine seems to 'derail' and send you into the abyss of poorly rendered polygon shadows.

    Voice clips are often choppy, low quality, and poorly cut. I know quite a bit about remixing music and post processing, and the effort is not to spec at all. By your fifth, 'Now shut up, betty!' you'll understand what I mean.

    Repeated, annoying animations, and floating text that will not go away plague you, as you try to understand the complicated nature of the menus which are not logically arranged at all. You feel right away that this game was meant for a console.

    Soldiering on, you go to your first station. You are assigned a kill mission, and just as you engage your opponent, the game locks up. Your first crash sets you back about an hour. Mostly due to the painfully slow flight speed of your bucket of bolts called a ship.

    You get back to your bounty mission, and your bounty target is now attacking you. You put it down with ease, yet score a plethora of friendly fire hits on the friendly station, which now starts attacking you. Oh yes, some real thought was put into this game.

    Reload your save, you restart the bounty mission, which has changed, and start thinking about how you're going to kill a giant freighter with your small peashooter laser.. so you think you need some new guns first. I did.

    There are no ship customizations, or upgrades beyond that of 5-6 core weapons (which span from mark 1 to mark 3), 4-5 projectile (missile type) weapons and 3 types of forcefields to choose from. Engines and scanners are upgradeable however this is where you notice the cost..

    And start to try to create your own trade empire. Or would, rather, if you could get past the first tutorial mission where you are guided through a 'trade'. Your first freighter seems to get stuck on 'Follow' mode, and will never release.

    There is no 'cancel order' or 'cancel last trip' command. So once this happens, you had better have a save or else your game is kaput, as you now have no hope of acquiring currency en masse. Even if you do buy another freighter and get something going, it eventually locks into the 'follow albion skunk' command.

    At this point, I became frustrated and tossed in the towel. I'm a guy known for liking complex, absurdly large learning curve games, but this isn't a game.

    It's a piece of junk that the developer is scrambling to repair before people turn away from their company, for good.

    And because I'm slightly insane, I loaded the game again, jumped into a superhighway, and got randomly dumped into space 1.4M KM away from anywhere, with no jump drive. That's about when I hit my threshold. This apparently 'rare' bug, is just one of many waiting to frustrate you.

    People, I implore you. Understand that even a RUDIMENTARY quality control program would have prevented any of these issues from occurring, but this developer seems to be lacking in common sense.

    I feel like I've been the victim of a scam, as I paid decent money for what I was to understand was a working product, yet received a game that should still be in alpha, or earlier.

    If they had stated 'Well we're doing an alpha early-access' that would have been fine with me. But I would not have paid 40 bucks for it, let me tell you.

    Don't make my mistake. Turn your back on this one, and walk away.

    Though, there is one thing they got right, naming the first ship you get 'Albion Skunk' cause this game just stinks. (they're not getting a point for that though.)

    And I'm afraid no amount of patching is going to erase that stink, since the flaws are on a fundamental, conceptual level.    … Expand
  79. Tageo
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I guess you have to have a grudging respect for those responsible for this stinky, stinky turd. They saw an opportunity to make profit from a deception and exploited it mercilessly. I mean Christ, they kept it away from [everyone, everywhere] until the last second before release for a reason.

    Like many others I was too hesitant to play the earlier titles because of the infamous learning    I guess you have to have a grudging respect for those responsible for this stinky, stinky turd. They saw an opportunity to make profit from a deception and exploited it mercilessly. I mean Christ, they kept it away from [everyone, everywhere] until the last second before release for a reason.

    Like many others I was too hesitant to play the earlier titles because of the infamous learning curve. This was the game I was gonna get into. But it's just a mess. As other have said, this is a game that got rejected by Xbox, and has now been ported back to PC.

    The perpetrators knew they would get a certain amount of sales from fans of the series no matter what they released. They also knew that if they lauded (lied) about a new slick interface and ease of interaction they would get even more sales.

    So they took a dump and ran off to the bank. Some say it can be patched and modded, but you can't polish a turd. You can try, but you'll just end up covered in chit    … Expand
  80. dark0z
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Full of bugs, awful graphics, awful textures, awful animations, awful menus, awful gameplay, awful trading, awful AI, truly awful game.
    save your money for another game, or burn it.
  81. MPCPRO
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    X: Rebirth is not really for release. It is complete unplayable for me, except for the random crashes, I get huge performance issues. FPS ranging from 10-60 with choppy and slow loading cut scenes. Game is really badly optimized, would have thought my GTX 590 would have been able to max this, since the game looks to be using 3-4 year old graphics.

    One thing I hate most with my    X: Rebirth is not really for release. It is complete unplayable for me, except for the random crashes, I get huge performance issues. FPS ranging from 10-60 with choppy and slow loading cut scenes. Game is really badly optimized, would have thought my GTX 590 would have been able to max this, since the game looks to be using 3-4 year old graphics.

    One thing I hate most with my experience is the game play, really repetitive, and have discussions with the NPCs are really a joke. They keep saying the same old things, and they also look alike! Seems that the developers decided to reuse 4-5 facial skins everywhere! Really annoying. Also, did I mention that those 4-5 facial skins they have made are insanely ugly?! I get nightmares just looking at them.

    Also, WHERES THE JOYSTICK SUPPORT?! Cant make a space sim without it! Though they did support one controller, the Xbox 360 one. So have fun console gamers!    … Expand
  82. maxdreamland
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    this game is a complete failure. it is one of the few times where i wish i could get my money back. the game runs sluggish even on my GTX680. It is full of bugs (e.g. crashes to desktop, bugged story missions) and bad design decisions (horrible menu system, pointless walkable space stations).

    And even if you ignore all this and fight your way through the game for a couple of hours, you    this game is a complete failure. it is one of the few times where i wish i could get my money back. the game runs sluggish even on my GTX680. It is full of bugs (e.g. crashes to desktop, bugged story missions) and bad design decisions (horrible menu system, pointless walkable space stations).

    And even if you ignore all this and fight your way through the game for a couple of hours, you really quickly come to a point where you ask yourself "what is there to do in this game?" apart from mindlessly "activating" information icons around space stations and doing stupid mini games like the long range scanning.

    Oh, and you better be prepared to spend hours on google and the forums to find out how stuff works in this game. because most of it is not self explanatory and the game itself does a very bad job of explaining things to you.

    my advice would be: save yourself the 50 bucks and invest them in Chris Roberts's "Star Citizen" instead.    … Expand
  83. coralie22
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    No stats for the weapons.
    Not possible to give commands to your own ships
    + no Balancing of Capital Ships( can destroy big Ship
    easily with your own little Playerships right from the Beginning)
    Tedious Micromanagement everywhere;Hiring Crews, Trading etc.
    Fazit:The Bugs could be fixed.
    The horrible Game"design" not.
  84. BerndtOut
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    As with many many others I'm disappointed with this game. They have totally forgotten why people play the games and removed any of the core features they were known for. It's a sad day for the X series. The 'features' they have replaced the game with are useless. Trading is now literally like taking your Granny to the shops, it really is slow and tedious. Building in set places only.As with many many others I'm disappointed with this game. They have totally forgotten why people play the games and removed any of the core features they were known for. It's a sad day for the X series. The 'features' they have replaced the game with are useless. Trading is now literally like taking your Granny to the shops, it really is slow and tedious. Building in set places only. Rummaging through lockers and boxes like a tramp for a few spare credits or some junk. Very little player choice. It just plain stinks as a game and as an X franchise game it's a blatant 1 finger salute to the fans.

    I would have given it a 2 but the CEO's comment 'What an amazing launch it's been!.' has made me realise it's Game Over for X and Egosoft. I think the CEO put the Ego in Egosoft!    … Expand
  85. ATEU
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    I registered myself just to be able to score and review this this game, not!
    A failure in every way, nothing makes sense in this broken wannabe game.
  86. DJGandalf
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    The game is currently runs as an unplayable frame rate. But the limited amount that I did play I was thoroughly disappointed.

    On release there were numerous progression blocking bugs which either required full restart of the story, hacking of the save game or if you’re lucky in some cases a simple reboot. The game for me, seemed to have a memory Leak as well, regularly crashing my    The game is currently runs as an unplayable frame rate. But the limited amount that I did play I was thoroughly disappointed.

    On release there were numerous progression blocking bugs which either required full restart of the story, hacking of the save game or if you’re lucky in some cases a simple reboot.

    The game for me, seemed to have a memory Leak as well, regularly crashing my computer after running the software.

    Gameplay wise, it seems they tried to make a more approachable game but failed. They tried to include what I would describe as off the peg console mechanics in a world that doesn’t really support them. Examples of this is flying around the space station for hours on end finding all the ‘information symbols’ just to earn discounts in an attempt to make the space cities feel exploreable.

    The copy and paste space stations are forgivable (within reason) but there NPC population is just unforgivable. They all use the same copy-an-paste conversation systems and the choices become repetitive and annoying after you have met the first one. It really feels like they missed a trick.

    At the end of the day, this is must buy for die hard X fans, but to new comers to the franchise I would stick with X3 and XRM mods. (and I mean DIE HARD!)

    Give it three months and the majority of the problems will be patched out and the community would have developed sizeable collection of mods to make it good. Unfortunately that won’t undo the damage of this PR fiasco and shocking launch.    … Expand
  87. dudeburger
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    It feels like a PS2 port to PC! Rubbish textures, gameplay, voice acting, models, fps...... so much is BAD about this game. Trying to get refund from steam who shamelessly promoted it as a 'triple A' title at full price!
  88. Remarc
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    This game is dead...X-Tension game in 2000 year will be much better...................................................................................
  89. AndyCapobianco
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    The game is unfinished. The developers have charged full price for a terrible, unfinished game. The flying around space and scenery/details are good, but nearly everything else is terrible. An honest rating would be a 3/10. However the ill-informed positive reviews rating it 10/10 etc are misleading.
  90. LChapman
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    If you're a fan of the X series, and all of its depth and freedom, skip X Rebirth and continue playing X3.

    The gameplay that made the series great has been dumbed down and replaced with gimmicks and shallow, arcade-like gameplay. In attempting to make the game more "accessible," Egosoft has taken key features and hidden them away, forcing the players to interact with poorly-voiced    If you're a fan of the X series, and all of its depth and freedom, skip X Rebirth and continue playing X3.

    The gameplay that made the series great has been dumbed down and replaced with gimmicks and shallow, arcade-like gameplay. In attempting to make the game more "accessible," Egosoft has taken key features and hidden them away, forcing the players to interact with poorly-voiced NPCs, using a clunky interface that often as not doesn't work at all.

    The game was released with game-breaking bugs. One bug, mainly concerning the inability to cancel orders you've given to owned ships, caused me to have to edit a save file in order to fix it.

    Later, after hours into gameplay, I more or less had to start over, because a game-breaking bug corrupted my save, preventing me from using any controls or opening any menus at all. (Except, thankfully, the escape key, which allowed me to quit the game. I will likely never play it again.

    Hopefully, Egosoft will gain some sort of new fan base with their new "Lowest Common Denominator" approach, because they have certainly alienated and lost the fans they had.    … Expand
  91. XAbortion
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    I created an account on metacritic specifically to write this review. X Rebirth should have been aborted. A complete and utter piece of Stay away.
  92. Chobazo
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    Cant Even Run on My Nvidia cause is always detecting integrated graphics.

    Also its like this game was a crappy Console port that never saw the light
  93. HaVoK023
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    Bad game Egosoft. {{{ALERT IF YOU ARE X3 X3TC FAN AVOID THIS ONE.}}}

    Why there is only one ship, where are commands for the other ships in squad?
    Trading system sucks.
    optimization sucks
    IA dumb
    Full of Bugs... like menu disapearing and you cant do
  94. mate77
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    This game is from the top to bottom
    EVERYTHING in this game is broken, bugged
    It runs on DX9 with pretty ****ty graphic BUT the FPS is LOWER than in Crysis 2 on my PC
    Unfortunately I think that the game is broken beyond repair
    I will NEVER EVER preorder any game from any company regardless their good reputation again
  95. dannyboy1981
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    I my mind I am finding it hard to express how I feel about this game.

    I just feel sick while playing it. I am not sure if its the fact it the most dumb down piece of gaming garbage I have ever played, or fact EGOSOFT lied to us its loyal customers about the origins of this game. All I will say is, please please please stay the hell away from this title, I can not express how bad it    I my mind I am finding it hard to express how I feel about this game.

    I just feel sick while playing it. I am not sure if its the fact it the most dumb down piece of gaming garbage I have ever played, or fact EGOSOFT lied to us its loyal customers about the origins of this game.

    All I will say is, please please please stay the hell away from this title, I can not express how bad it is. Its the worst game i have ever played in my 22 years of gaming.    … Expand
  96. Chatterly
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    What a horrible mess. A better name would have been X Afterbirth. The campaign is unplayable, trading is bugged, and simple tasks are obtuse and often bugged. Even saving results in CTD. There are minigames for travel and talking to people that remind me of farmville, amazingly they work. There's also a minigame where you bounce from save to save, hoping to find one where the game hasn'tWhat a horrible mess. A better name would have been X Afterbirth. The campaign is unplayable, trading is bugged, and simple tasks are obtuse and often bugged. Even saving results in CTD. There are minigames for travel and talking to people that remind me of farmville, amazingly they work. There's also a minigame where you bounce from save to save, hoping to find one where the game hasn't inexplicably removed a vital game resource from the universe. The ASI (Artificially Stupid Intelligence) makes decisions based on an inverse Maslovian hierarchy while the NPC models look pulled out of the design documents for The Ring as "Too creepy." Rather than buy this game, send the money to your local crack dealer and ask him to beat you like one of his delinquent customers. You'll enjoy it more. And hey, maybe get some meth in the process.… Expand
  97. ErnieTheMighty
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    A total disappointment. I've been waiting for this release for a years, and they bring me this non-sense. The very first release is glitched out, and the developers promise to come up with an update, which comes only a day after.
    Game play-wise, almost nothing has improved in the game. It's all the same, just a little bit more complex. I'd give you a +1 for that, but you've already    A total disappointment. I've been waiting for this release for a years, and they bring me this non-sense. The very first release is glitched out, and the developers promise to come up with an update, which comes only a day after.
    Game play-wise, almost nothing has improved in the game. It's all the same, just a little bit more complex. I'd give you a +1 for that, but you've already drained all my nerves from the first day of publishing.    … Expand
  98. Smeghead
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    I played this game for severel hours but gave up due to the superhighways droping me thousends of miles out in space. I know most of these bugs are being sorted out, but fixing bugs wont fix whats wrong with the basic game. It canot fix the god awful voice acting, the terrible layered menus, the single ship that you can fly, being a console port.

    One of the main draws of the other x    I played this game for severel hours but gave up due to the superhighways droping me thousends of miles out in space. I know most of these bugs are being sorted out, but fixing bugs wont fix whats wrong with the basic game. It canot fix the god awful voice acting, the terrible layered menus, the single ship that you can fly, being a console port.

    One of the main draws of the other x games for me was earning enough money to buy and pilot better ships, or fly that superfrieghter yourself. It seems they did away with averything that made the previous games great, to dumb down this one so it will appeal to a larger market.

    Forget this and try the previous X games.    … Expand
  99. Storming74
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    Do not buy. It's a scam because Egosft of us just trying to pull money. Egosoft the game was really excited. I am a true fan of the series X but we did not deserve this. Thank you for a wonderful Christmas. For 50 euros I prefer to be able to buy another game from real professionals and not bums such as Egosoft.
  100. Jonhybee
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    I wish I had read more reviews before buying the game but, being a huge X3:TC fan I was not careful enough.

    The game right now is broken, I have had many mission stalling bugs in the first few hours of the tutorial. But I dont expect any game to be bug free at lauch. What is much worst for me is the lack of any auto-pilot or any form of auto trader. You seem to have to babysit your    I wish I had read more reviews before buying the game but, being a huge X3:TC fan I was not careful enough.

    The game right now is broken, I have had many mission stalling bugs in the first few hours of the tutorial. But I dont expect any game to be bug free at lauch.

    What is much worst for me is the lack of any auto-pilot or any form of auto trader. You seem to have to babysit your trader like a lap dog in this iteration, you so end up spending 2 "fun" hours waiting for your trade ship to show up (with no SETA, I loved that feature...) if he ever does. I have had a very hard time with the interface (something I have never had with X3), its hard to know what your ships are doing or even where they are. The map is utter non-sense, you cant get any usefull information out of it. The highway is buggy as hell and just pure crap, turning the act of space navigation into a mini-game.

    But for me the absolute WORST is that you are forced into some kind of space scavenger or garbage man role, going from station to station to pick up free crap scattered in boxes... that is just not what I call fun, specially in what I expected to be a complexe space simulator.

    For me the X serie is now broken. A lot of user say it will be fixed by patches, but I do not think thi sis feasable. I think Egosoft has messed up big time trying to simplify the game and port it to Xbox, this and many other weird design choices (Only one ship?!?! in a space simulator really?!?!?!) have made this the piece of crap it is.

    I have never been so dissapointed after purchasing a game (and the price tag was 50$ too...)    … Expand
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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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