X Rebirth

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1310 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 924 out of 1310
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  1. PrinceThrakkath
    Dec 5, 2013
    6
    After submitting a fairly early positive score before running into several game breaking bugs, I think its only fair to lower the score. Beautiful space graphics at times (station NPC's are damn ugly tho), but frustrating highway crashes and trading bugs really take away from experience.

    Hopefully future patches will improve the game and I really believe in its potential and Egosoft    After submitting a fairly early positive score before running into several game breaking bugs, I think its only fair to lower the score. Beautiful space graphics at times (station NPC's are damn ugly tho), but frustrating highway crashes and trading bugs really take away from experience.

    Hopefully future patches will improve the game and I really believe in its potential and Egosoft are well known for their after-release support. I hope i can move this score towards an 8 or 9 in a few months time    … Expand
  2. xanthar
    Nov 18, 2013
    1
    Horrible, bug filled experience. I have invested some 20+hours trying to work around the massive amount of bugs, crashes, and corrupted save files. Avoid this game at all costs!
  3. kaalbut
    Nov 21, 2013
    2
    this game is a joke and should have been named X3: vaselina.

    its 100 miles way from what the X series was before
    if you're looking for a REAL space sim then just go for one of the previous episodes like X3: TC or AP
  4. jeff1304
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    This came is the Facebook game equivalent of a X game. Dumbed down features, graphics, ai, smallest game world I have seen in X. Save your money donate to the Philippines or give it to a street bum or just save it you will feel much better.
  5. Balthazzar
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    The game isn't finished. Every frame in the trailers has been carefully chosen to give a fake impression of the visual appeal. In fact, the previous title looks way better then the new one. Once you're actually in-game and looking at the lights, smokes, decals and highway animations it becomes painfully obvious that they chose nothing short of perfect angles while shooting the trailers.The game isn't finished. Every frame in the trailers has been carefully chosen to give a fake impression of the visual appeal. In fact, the previous title looks way better then the new one. Once you're actually in-game and looking at the lights, smokes, decals and highway animations it becomes painfully obvious that they chose nothing short of perfect angles while shooting the trailers.
    Yes, I'm a fan, and yes I know they'll fix the game in 9-15 months. But it doesn't excuse the fact they they FAKED as much as they could. I won't even mention the absurd number of bugs. They lied and they released an alpha-stage game labeled as a full product.

    And no, you won't agree with this review until you tried the game yourself. It's hard to tell from the trailers.    … Expand
  6. Zakuman
    Nov 20, 2013
    2
    The game is very dumbed down the other X games where complex and not everyone's cup of tea, but this one is overly simplified and riddled with many bugs or features which are simply not working.
    There are only 4 weapons in the game, even privateer had more XD

    Only good thing I can say is that the graphics in space look good.
  7. Geefod
    Nov 19, 2013
    1
    In short: I great idea, horribly executed!!

    The game is so unfinished, that it is unplayable. Besides the gamebreaking bugs in the campaign, you will have to put up with performance, even on a highend pc, annoying NPC voices, with added bad animations. I found my self saving and loading continously trying to avoid the game breaking bugs in the campaign, just to get a little further,    In short: I great idea, horribly executed!!

    The game is so unfinished, that it is unplayable. Besides the gamebreaking bugs in the campaign, you will have to put up with performance, even on a highend pc, annoying NPC voices, with added bad animations.

    I found my self saving and loading continously trying to avoid the game breaking bugs in the campaign, just to get a little further, just because of the possibilities the game offers and the intriguing storyline pushed me forward. But after 9 hours of loading old saves and running into new game breaking bugs, I finally gave up.

    You could hope they will patch up all the issues, but there are just so many things wrong with this game it will take forever to make it playable.

    Everyone who bought this deserves a refund.    … Expand
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. HavocRazr30
    Nov 21, 2013
    1
    I do not like the direction Egosoft seems to be going with this game. It feels more like a FPS. It lacks the true depth and learning curve that the previous X games had. I loved the fact that I could buy AND pilot new ships, instead of just drones. Its not fun at all to just have one ship, granted I liked the Albion Pride design in X3: AP and wanted to capture it for my own, but still. TheI do not like the direction Egosoft seems to be going with this game. It feels more like a FPS. It lacks the true depth and learning curve that the previous X games had. I loved the fact that I could buy AND pilot new ships, instead of just drones. Its not fun at all to just have one ship, granted I liked the Albion Pride design in X3: AP and wanted to capture it for my own, but still. The game seems to rely on being a gamepad game too much now. I regret buying the game.… Expand
  14. malbosia
    Nov 24, 2013
    0
    You don't review a game as how others often referred to as FANBOYs see the game in a year or 5. If they had wanted to sell me something in a year or two THEN asked for my money with a finished product it would be a quite different question. As it stands this is a very clear cut situation of STAY THE HELL clear of this. You literally can not finish the tutorial/campaign without editing, andYou don't review a game as how others often referred to as FANBOYs see the game in a year or 5. If they had wanted to sell me something in a year or two THEN asked for my money with a finished product it would be a quite different question. As it stands this is a very clear cut situation of STAY THE HELL clear of this. You literally can not finish the tutorial/campaign without editing, and hacking into your own game saves. This is of course, if you can actually get the game to save. Basic functionality aside it is almost terrible at every level. I REALLY wanted to like and support this title, honestly. I normally don't make reviews on sites like this and just go about recommending good games to coworkers,fellow gamers by word of mouth. However, this is a train wreck and as most people will buy this from steam and not be able to recoup their money(NO REFUNDS) I feel and overwhelming NEED to steer people clear of this title and its publishers/design house. Please see the steam forums if you doubt what I say here and see how well past unhappy to ENRAGED people are about this game ...you really don't need to take my word for it.… Expand
  15. Seinekar
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    It feels like an Alpha. Quite buggy. From minor bugs, to total crashes that doesn´t let u play the game at all. But, even skipping that fact, the game is just a step back on X series.

    Graphics doesn´t seems any better than in X3, in fact they even look worse sometimes. Its false that every ship has an assignement on the universe, they spawn, move in circles and vanish after some    It feels like an Alpha. Quite buggy. From minor bugs, to total crashes that doesn´t let u play the game at all. But, even skipping that fact, the game is just a step back on X series.

    Graphics doesn´t seems any better than in X3, in fact they even look worse sometimes.

    Its false that every ship has an assignement on the universe, they spawn, move in circles and vanish after some time.

    Also, in game deep has dissapeared. Im agree with the idea of makin X game more simple and user friendly, but what they did is just remove features. Just to point the worse, u are no onger able to build a large fleet like u could in previuos games.

    ...and its 60$. Or more if u want collector pack. The game is just unfinished, buggy, even unplayable, and even so, its just WORSE in every aspect than previous. Tip: get X3 Albion Prelude, or Terran conflict. Even "professional" reviews are scoring it under 4, and that sth really hard to happen....    … Expand
  16. rustyfingers
    Nov 20, 2013
    1
    This game is a complete disaster, well beyond repair. Its not about bugs or framerate but more about design errors.

    The UI is absolutely terrible, it does not display any useful informations, you can not zoom out, no external view of your ship, apparently we re in the future, have space ships but we have to fly near an object to see if there is any trade available ??? We have the    This game is a complete disaster, well beyond repair. Its not about bugs or framerate but more about design errors.

    The UI is absolutely terrible, it does not display any useful informations, you can not zoom out, no external view of your ship, apparently we re in the future, have space ships but we have to fly near an object to see if there is any trade available ???

    We have the cokpit view all the time, so its really difficult to see what s going on around the ship, no targetting system, the cokpit offers no interesting information its a complete mess.

    Avoid at all costs    … Expand
  17. 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
  18. Remarc
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    This game is dead...X-Tension game in 2000 year will be much better...................................................................................
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. Rayden2909
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    This game is not X4! I understood that but it's not "the biggest sandbox this side of the galaxy" either. The fact that you can only pilot one ship can't build stations where you want and can't do yourself what you want (have to convince some AI players to do it for you) is what makes me come to that conclusion.
    I feel like the game thinks I am stupid since apparently I should enjoy    This game is not X4! I understood that but it's not "the biggest sandbox this side of the galaxy" either. The fact that you can only pilot one ship can't build stations where you want and can't do yourself what you want (have to convince some AI players to do it for you) is what makes me come to that conclusion.
    I feel like the game thinks I am stupid since apparently I should enjoy loosing time in the highway minigame and consider it a much better solution than a jump-drive to get me to where I want to go. I should also not enjoy figuring out which stations may have better prices and instead fly around them aimlessly so that they all will give me better prices.
    I should not try to see which goods make better trade targets but instead just go around stations and loot wares to sell.
    My opinion of this game as it is right now is that it just failed.    … Expand
  24. scout22
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    I really tried to like it, but a certain lack of death fused to pretty explosions just isn't enough.

    The X series seems to be history, since this simpleton console style game by all terms is nothing but franchise rip-off.
  25. islesofurth
    Nov 19, 2013
    3
    The beautiful trailer and dynamic promises this game has to offer is nothing compared to the actual game-play that a player experiences when they enter the world that is X Rebirth.
    There is no tutorials or advise on how to get started aside from the quest objectives and popups that either don't stay long enough to read or stay to long and obstruct your vision.
    This game had alot of    The beautiful trailer and dynamic promises this game has to offer is nothing compared to the actual game-play that a player experiences when they enter the world that is X Rebirth.
    There is no tutorials or advise on how to get started aside from the quest objectives and popups that either don't stay long enough to read or stay to long and obstruct your vision.

    This game had alot of potential in the making however alike many games that could have been great it was simply released to soon.    … Expand
  26. acroyer
    Nov 18, 2013
    4
    Good grief Egosoft! You definitely made a beautiful game but it's like looking at a nice toilet from the distance. Once you get up close you see the S*** stains and smell something really bad!

    We can only hope the modding community can make this game good!
  27. TheReject
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    I am 11 hours into the game, an unfortunately there are many glaring flaws in this game. I believe most of the technical issues will eventually be resolved, but there are some serious design issues which really drag this game down.

    I have long been a fan of the X series and I have been looking forward to this game for months, so my experience might be colored somewhat by my    I am 11 hours into the game, an unfortunately there are many glaring flaws in this game. I believe most of the technical issues will eventually be resolved, but there are some serious design issues which really drag this game down.

    I have long been a fan of the X series and I have been looking forward to this game for months, so my experience might be colored somewhat by my disappointment. I have been plagued with poor performance, constant game crashes which sometimes require a reboot to get out of, and numerous glitches in the trading system and missions that make advancement impossible.

    Again, the technical issues will be resolved via patching. What may not be resolved are the design choices that depart from previous X games. To list:
    1. You can no longer hop from ship to ship. You can own multiple ships and you can issue them limited orders, but your starting ship will be your ending ship and it will be the only one you pilot.
    2. The trading network has been neutered. You can only issue trade commands for your freighters to sell or purchase goods in their system only. You can't set up the elaborate chains that were possible in X:TC.
    3. Voice acting: You are chained to another character that has some of the worst voice acting I've heard since Final Fantasy X.
    4. Menus, sub menus, sub-sub-menus: You can't just buy a gun or missile while floating in space. You need to dock your ship, walk to the individual merchant, open a conversation, request to see their goods, request to see their missiles, then request to buy them, then tell them how many you want. Seriously, restocking missiles is a 5-minute ordeal after every fight.

    I think I see where they wanted to go with this game. They wanted to make it more appealing to the masses that were previously turned off by the massive learning curve the series holds. Unfortunately, instead of streamlining the game mechanics they just hid them behind a poorly-designed and time-consuming interface which is somehow more painful to deal with than the spreadsheets of the older games.

    I want to like this game so much, but there are just too many glaring flaws to get much actual enjoyment.    … Expand
  28. 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
  29. Koreenium
    Nov 23, 2013
    4
    What can I say.... I am really disappointed in this game. :(
    Graphics are bad, the animations are bad, textures are made in a hurry or something because any beginner photoshop user could make textures like those or even better and the saddest part is that I am not kidding.
    Performance at the moment is terrible. I got like average 30 fps on med-high end PC. The story seems to be garbage.    What can I say.... I am really disappointed in this game. :(
    Graphics are bad, the animations are bad, textures are made in a hurry or something because any beginner photoshop user could make textures like those or even better and the saddest part is that I am not kidding.
    Performance at the moment is terrible. I got like average 30 fps on med-high end PC.
    The story seems to be garbage. Voice acting is not that great.
    I have not found anything positive worth mentioning     … Expand
  30. MevriS
    Nov 19, 2013
    3
    As I am about 15 hours into the game I am now able to give a short review about it.
    It is playable if you have a powerful gaming computer and as there are very few graphic options in the menu you won't be able to adjust performance according to your hardware as freely as pc games would normally allow you. Not to mention the serious optimization issues and frequent framerate drops that    As I am about 15 hours into the game I am now able to give a short review about it.
    It is playable if you have a powerful gaming computer and as there are very few graphic options in the menu you won't be able to adjust performance according to your hardware as freely as pc games would normally allow you. Not to mention the serious optimization issues and frequent framerate drops that occur even if you run it on an high end pc. It has a fairly impressive sound options menu though.
    Controls are smooth and mostly intuitive but compared to previous X titles it seems way to 'consoly' in my opinion even though they are still too clunky for me playing with a controller. Mouse and keyboard are working good but players with multibutton gaming mouses won't be able to take full advantage of their hardware as mouse controls aren't rebindable.
    Even in the current build 1.14 the game still suffers from frequent crashes and as it has no autosave you'll find yourself constantly mashing the quicksave button.

    With the mere technical apsect covered only story and gameplay remain.
    As for the story it is fairly engaging. Nothing too special, at least during the first few hours but definitely more immersive as most previous X Games. The fact that you only have direct control over one single ship this time somewhat limits your gameplay experience but helps identifying yourself with your ship and the protagonist on the other hand. I cant say that this i generally a bad design decision, it's just different. In fact the game is full of interesting ideas. The new Trade System is innovative but navigating and "finding" offers and sales can get really tedious. It seems like searching for collectables sometimes which artificially lengthens the game in a very annoying way.The Highways are a great idea as well but as poorly designed as the trade system to a grade it becomes simply illogical. Why am I moving faster if I put myself behind other ships on a lane? How do they build up speed in the first place because they don't seem to be bound to the same rule as me. It's ridiciously stupid, simply said. And now my major bugbear: the campaign bugged out. At some point you have to deliver a number of food provisions to a station but the game took away my cargo ship or "forgot" to give it back to me when it was supposed to do. And as your only way to trade goods, with exception of a small selection, is to ship it with large freighters (as far as I know the game does a terrible job at telling you things) I find myself completely unable to progress.
    There are some other minor and major bugs: ships disappearing from your Properties-Screen even though you can still see them on the map and even give them orders. trade commands that won't be executed correctly. The aiming assistance is irritating at best so far I haven't found out where to put my cursor if the target moves.. which most of them targets do,.. naturally. It's definitly not where the game suggests me to put it. The list goes on and on and on.

    All things considered, I believe I had about 6 hours of fun and 9 hours of frustration which leads me to my final conclusion:
    Do! not! buy! this! game! in it's current state. It has massive potential given enough time to be polished. As it is now, it's great ideas and innovations are plagued by bad conversion and legions of bugs.

    3/10 (2/10 if I weren't a fan of the X-Universe)    … Expand
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Metascore
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 24 out of 24
  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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