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
  2. Mixed: 111 out of 1310
  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.
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  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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