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. tymaoaretae
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    I am so disappointed in this game that I actually decided to write a review. That says a lot all on it's own. I've been playing games my entire life and have been a professional game developer for almost a decade. In all that time I have never felt compelled to go to the trouble of actually writing a negative review. I pre-ordered this game the moment it was available. It sounded likeI am so disappointed in this game that I actually decided to write a review. That says a lot all on it's own. I've been playing games my entire life and have been a professional game developer for almost a decade. In all that time I have never felt compelled to go to the trouble of actually writing a negative review. I pre-ordered this game the moment it was available. It sounded like everything I've ever wanted in a game. Alas, it was not to be. Playing this game hurts me. I've spent about 8 hours playing it so far because I desperately want it to be good somehow. I've turned the voice volume all the way down so I can't hear the awful dialog. I've given up caring about how awkward the controls and menus are. I pretend all the NPCs just don't exist. Despite all this, the game is still hard to play, and I'm not referring to the difficulty level. There are so many small things wrong with this game that they overwhelm almost constantly. So many simple things that are, best case, bad design choices, but generally feel like the developers working on them did not have enough time to finish. It is inevitable in any game production that some corners will be cut, but this game feels almost spherical. I am at a loss. I'm holding out hope that they will turn this ship around, but I just don't know if they can.… Expand
  2. X0R
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    really regret buying this afterbirth, feels like I bought an MS-DOS game by mistake. the graphics are truly terrible Why are all female characters so fugly in this game? Why are the controls so clunky for PC? Great concept, but I guess I'll go back to Privateer or Wing Commander for the next two years until they patch and release an expansion to improve it to the 2013 era. Starreally regret buying this afterbirth, feels like I bought an MS-DOS game by mistake. the graphics are truly terrible Why are all female characters so fugly in this game? Why are the controls so clunky for PC? Great concept, but I guess I'll go back to Privateer or Wing Commander for the next two years until they patch and release an expansion to improve it to the 2013 era. Star Citizen is my only hope.… Expand
  3. BrentLauer
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    As someone who played every Game since X:BtF, i was incredibly disappointed by this game.

    I'm not someone who gives bad reviews on a whim i played around 8 hours and it doesn't feel like a X game at all. Here is why: 1) I won't say it's outright broken, but they clearly delivered a more than unfinished product. So far i've encountered a hefty amount of serious bugs, every half an    As someone who played every Game since X:BtF, i was incredibly disappointed by this game.

    I'm not someone who gives bad reviews on a whim i played around 8 hours and it doesn't feel like a X game at all. Here is why:

    1) I won't say it's outright broken, but they clearly delivered a more than unfinished product. So far i've encountered a hefty amount of serious bugs, every half an hour or so my game crashed completely. I'm really asking myself did Egosoft even do any basic bugtesting at all? I know very well, that they also released buggy games in the past, but this is getting out of control. The trend of releasing untested games needs to stop. Someone has to say something.

    2) The bad performance is also a serious issue. I have an I-7 (4.2ghz), GTX 690 4GB and 16GB Ram yet i'm getting laughable 20-30 FPS average. If i fly into busy areas i get even less FPS, same on stations. This is just hilarious and shows how poorly optimized the game is.

    3) Many of the core features from the past games were cut away or steamlined beyond recognition. They left out the Warp gates, instead you'll get some weird space highways. There is no 3rd person camera anymore and no free look inside your Many textures are simply low res and look nothing like the beautiful ones from the trailers and gameplay videos. The Story is plain childish. etc. etc.

    Also the Graphic special effects are very overused. I feel like being in that one simpsons episode, where they went to japan and got seizures all the time while watching a flashy gundam show on tv.

    4) You only get to fly 1 (in words: ONE) ship in person. Gone are the days, when you were able to fly basically any existing ship out there. Now you have to stick with this small Albion Ship for eternity.

    5) The UI and menu is simply horrible! I can't tell where the heck my ships are, let alone give orders to them. This whole "press enter and do everything from a separate screen" thing is really awful. It feels more like a console port than an improvement of any sort. Basically this is like 3 steps backwards compared to X3:TC.

    It hurts me to say it, but this game is Bad with a capital B! At least give it another 6 months so the community can fix the mess Egosoft released, before you even CONCIDER paying money for this game.    … Expand
  4. C_zombie
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    What do I say? The trailer made it look amazing. All the reviews had nothing negative or constructive to say. I have to wonder if these people were paid. It's buggy, unfinished and a lousy port of a console game. Frankly even if this gets launched on consoles it will flop there also. There are some good concepts, With some updates and work this game could be redeemed but right now It wasWhat do I say? The trailer made it look amazing. All the reviews had nothing negative or constructive to say. I have to wonder if these people were paid. It's buggy, unfinished and a lousy port of a console game. Frankly even if this gets launched on consoles it will flop there also. There are some good concepts, With some updates and work this game could be redeemed but right now It was no way fit for launch. 3rd game I have waited for a purchased recently in which the game was very very different from the trailer. Genuinely considering applying my consumer rights and trying to get a refund. Its a sad state of affairs considering I used adore this series.

    It saddens me. This game shows that the loyal fans who supported it simply aren't considered. This is a game designed for a console rather than a PC. We who supported this series are now forgotten.

    Things I would suggest that may redeem this.
    -HD Textures
    -Improved character models, voice acting. Some characters look like they are suffering with an ageing disease.
    -Expanded stations, Give us a more realistic feeling of a large galactic station. Same for docking with ships. Have more happening around the player give a sense of activity.
    -Re designed Menu's the current ones feel like that are akin to radial menu's on console games.
    -Optimisation, either through Nvidia Experience or Egosoft performing it themselves.
    -A 3rd person view in the Station sections. While these are unnecessary It could add an interesting avenue for game play. E.g Leading a boarding team to take over an enemy ship or raid a station.    … Expand
  5. Nestea
    Nov 15, 2013
    4
    I love the X games. But X Rebirth is a huge step backwards compared to the previous titles. It has great potential but is very poorly executed. I hope the developers fix those bug and improve the performance or this was the last X game I ever bought.
  6. 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
  7. Cowson
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    This game is unfinished and painful to play. I am incredibly gutted I paid £40 for it. I am waiting for a refund under UK's Distance Selling Regulation
  8. FatMax
    Nov 17, 2013
    1
    You know I wrote a scathing short review of this crappy programme and really resent that I cannot get my money back. I don't know about other countries but in the US and Canada if a product is not what you expect or up to par then you return it for refund. I guess we have been ripped off and can only hope the producers and developers use my, and others, hard earned money to fund theirYou know I wrote a scathing short review of this crappy programme and really resent that I cannot get my money back. I don't know about other countries but in the US and Canada if a product is not what you expect or up to par then you return it for refund. I guess we have been ripped off and can only hope the producers and developers use my, and others, hard earned money to fund their weekly management meetings as they drink their beer, eat their pizzas and high five each other thinking they produced the ultimate space age crap.… Expand
  9. kavaron
    Nov 17, 2013
    1
    I haven't even played the game for more than 30 minutes but I give a ZERO score because it is unplayable. I have an i7 with a 2 year old gfx card and my pc can handle even the latest games in medium detail with 50+ fps. X-rebirth plays around 10-15 fps which is unplayable. I am not sure if it is the game engine that is defective or if they are gonna fix it with an update but the fact isI haven't even played the game for more than 30 minutes but I give a ZERO score because it is unplayable. I have an i7 with a 2 year old gfx card and my pc can handle even the latest games in medium detail with 50+ fps. X-rebirth plays around 10-15 fps which is unplayable. I am not sure if it is the game engine that is defective or if they are gonna fix it with an update but the fact is that they should not release this game at this state. Will ask for a refund.… Expand
  10. HeavyCavalrySgt
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    Okay. It is buggy. Bugs can be fixed, so if you wait a couple of months you'll be better off than the release day victims. Fine.

    Okay this isn't like one of the other "X" games. Fine. It should have a different title, but that is a marketing thing I get it. What is really incomprehensible is that the game doesn't even have basic functions like "target nearest enemy", any sort    Okay. It is buggy. Bugs can be fixed, so if you wait a couple of months you'll be better off than the release day victims. Fine.

    Okay this isn't like one of the other "X" games. Fine. It should have a different title, but that is a marketing thing I get it.

    What is really incomprehensible is that the game doesn't even have basic functions like "target nearest enemy", any sort of situational awareness tool, no way to scroll through contacts, intentional delays in menus to slow you down... just horrific design decisions.

    For hours at a time, you'll be stealing things out of boxes and crates nobody cares and selling the contents to the guy standing next to you as you do it.

    This looks more like an attempt to sabotage a great series than any serious effort at making a decent game.    … Expand
  11. XenonQ
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    I've waited for this game for 3 years. It is such a disappointment. First, they had a horrible advertising campaign. They had us believe that it would come out in 2012. Then for a year, they were completely silent, with occasional videos of how they work in GERMAN language. Such a treat for devoted fans. So it was postponed to 2013, and frankly two months ago, everyone believed that itI've waited for this game for 3 years. It is such a disappointment. First, they had a horrible advertising campaign. They had us believe that it would come out in 2012. Then for a year, they were completely silent, with occasional videos of how they work in GERMAN language. Such a treat for devoted fans. So it was postponed to 2013, and frankly two months ago, everyone believed that it would be postponed to 2014, which it really should have, because the game in its current state is abysmal.

    And how ironic Deep Silver would go out of their way to convince us that they've put all into real life imitation for the maximal immersion, and it happened to be the game's capital offense! Immersion my ass. There are literally one single head model per male and female NPCs in the entire game. Half the time I can't even tell them apart. They are all 60-year-old-short-hair grandmas and grandpas. Not to mention the voice-overs. Oh those voice-overs! It's like the actors are literally reading from the script for the fist time in their lives. Same goes for your co-pilot. One person who is supposed to make your journey fun, kills it with her robotic voice. I want to find out who the actress is and send her an angry letter.
    All stations look alike on the inside inside, all ships look alike on the outside....

    They tried their best make travel more fast and fun, but it's all the same. I still have to wait 2-3 minutes while I run by those highways. That actually is pretty realistic, now that I think of it. Anyone has to drive to work for 40 min everyday here? Yeah, there's your immersion fellas.

    Bugs. I haven't had too many of those, thankfully, but I did have a nasty one that pretty much ruined my tutorial part of the campaign, because I did exactly as the window script told me to do. Anyone had that crap with the delivery of energy cells? I know for a fact that a lot of people did, I checked.

    And of course there is this stupid design that blocks 50% of your view, thus making one of the most important parts of the game beautiful view inaccessible. Why do I need all this crap getting in my way? I want to see the stars. And then again my idiotic co-pilot tells my AI to shut up all the time. What's her problem?....

    At least it's a good thing, they've allowed modding right of the bat. May be some good people will turn this thing around. But it is not the modders' job to fix a broken game. And there is only so much you can mode. The terrible voice-overs are not going anywhere.    … Expand
  12. Jodizzle
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    I finally registered for Metacritic today just so that I could weigh in on this atrocious launch. I've been a huge fan of the X series for years. I've logged over 320 hours in X3TC alone. I'm running a solid rig i7 quad core, 16 GB ram, Nvidia GTX 780.

    While I haven't encountered the frame rate issues many have, I have run into a myriad of others. Corrupt save games, getting stuck    I finally registered for Metacritic today just so that I could weigh in on this atrocious launch. I've been a huge fan of the X series for years. I've logged over 320 hours in X3TC alone. I'm running a solid rig i7 quad core, 16 GB ram, Nvidia GTX 780.

    While I haven't encountered the frame rate issues many have, I have run into a myriad of others. Corrupt save games, getting stuck in the clipping when on stations(which is easily the least enjoyable part of the gameplay experience), and buggy missions. Most recently my ship UI just randomly decided to disappear preventing any further progress on that save as I could not use it to issue commands to my trade ship. How a game does not have an autosave feature in 2013 continues to baffle me.

    As many have stated, the character animations are atrocious. Conversation options are drab and feel forced. Egosoft's attempt to add immersion only serves to break immersion for me. The copilot(who you're stuck with) drones on with repeated comments that seem to loop every few minutes. I wish I could seal off my half of the cabin and jettison her out the airlock.

    The only redeeming factor is that space is gorgeous and flying itself is a joy once you get used to the keyboard commands(which are very similar to the default key commands from x3tc). Unfortunately the keyboard commands are not mapable(whuuuuut?!)

    Lack of proper joystick support is also inconceivable to me, considering this is a space sim.

    In it's current state, I can only caution potential buyers to keep their wallets put away for now. With a few months of patches and hopefully a release of the modding tools, we may have another great game from Egosoft. As it stands right now, X Rebirth is a steaming pile of dung.    … Expand
  13. MetaviraVet
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    After two hours on the PC version I am sorely disappointed. Horrible performance, shoddy graphics, laughable station "instances" with characters that would seem modest by the standards of a 1998 game. While the space sim seems promising (hard to tell, every time I approach a station the framerate goes to hell), the rest of this alpha quality monstrosity is an insult poor voice acting,After two hours on the PC version I am sorely disappointed. Horrible performance, shoddy graphics, laughable station "instances" with characters that would seem modest by the standards of a 1998 game. While the space sim seems promising (hard to tell, every time I approach a station the framerate goes to hell), the rest of this alpha quality monstrosity is an insult poor voice acting, find-the-loot-box mini games and a female sidekick that's cringeworthy even for those who ride the campy retro wave.
    Six crashes later I'm calling it quits and consider the $50 a late taxation of the endless fun I had with the previous X games.    … Expand
  14. gibsonje
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Feels like a beta. The UI is garbage. The sheer number of game breaking bugs is unacceptable. The "Recommended" specs will let you play the game at low resolution on minimum settings, which I find to be unacceptable false advertising. I'm just overall extremely disappointed in this game. It feels like it was released a year too early and wasn't tested at all.
  15. emmasteadman
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    Bought on Steam, can't get a refund.

    So lets see, The map system is terrible, it makes no sense whatsoever. The view is the only view, I'd rather a seamless view with some HUD elements. At least an option to switch between them would be nice. Mission targets/waypoints sometimes vanish for no reason, and you're left not knowing what to do. Docking system is terrible and    Bought on Steam, can't get a refund.

    So lets see,

    The map system is terrible, it makes no sense whatsoever.

    The view is the only view, I'd rather a seamless view with some HUD elements. At least an option to switch between them would be nice.

    Mission targets/waypoints sometimes vanish for no reason, and you're left not knowing what to do.

    Docking system is terrible and unrealistic, spoiling immersion,especially when taking off again.

    Don't expect to be able to upgrade your own personal ship, or buy/build lots of new ones you're stuck with the same one, and can only get other ships to join you're fleet and follow you.

    Walking around on stations is completely unintuitive and feels like a game made 20yrs ago.

    NPC dialogue is a chore, and spoils immersion.

    Frame rates can drop for no reason, and requires a reload even with a good pc.

    Not even gonna mention the vast array of bugs.

    So I'm completely saddened and disappointed in this game, I love space/trading sims etc and I expected this to at least be as good as X3 and much better, instead it's the opposite.

    A cross between Eve Online (without PvP) and a better X3 would've been my ideal game of choice. Too much to hope for I guess.

    All in all I feel cheated, and I can not even get a refund. Won't be trusting Egosoft ever, ever again, sorry their reputation is now ruined.    … Expand
  16. Wolverinemetacr
    Nov 15, 2013
    4
    Are these companies all going nuts. Sim City, Rome now this I swear after this year no one will preorder again. Before you release a game to us the consumer finish it. Ok review it is buggy the graphics are poor and I just cant get into it. Maybe down the road when they clean all this up. Nothing game breakingly bad just chill and wait till they get this squared away.
  17. sintri
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    Buggy and filled with performance issues upon release, but that's not really the worst part. While I do appreciate the revamping of caps and trying to add further immersion, the base concept is flawed. For one, if you're going to make stations, least do them proper, create decent models for npcs and actually give them useful dialogue otherwise you're just creating a terrible feature thatBuggy and filled with performance issues upon release, but that's not really the worst part. While I do appreciate the revamping of caps and trying to add further immersion, the base concept is flawed. For one, if you're going to make stations, least do them proper, create decent models for npcs and actually give them useful dialogue otherwise you're just creating a terrible feature that does nothing but waste time that could be spent actually playing the game. Two, here's a biggy, if you're going to give people capital ships, DON'T FORCE THEM TO WATCH IT FROM A FREAKING LITTLE RING IN THE DOCKING BAY. If you're really can't handle making a generic capital ship bridge interior where we can actually get readouts on what's going on and be able to look out from the bridge instead of a little window with a 45 degree FOV, least give us 3rd person view. Sitting in a tiny little ring in the docking bay with a 45 FOV window with no information on what's going on is pointless.

    -That being said, you can't really use directly control anything else other than the skunk, which wouldn't be as bad if it weren't for the aforementioned.
    -Gone is the intricate single menu where you could control the entire world, in it's place are even worse menus that require you to take a 6 sec animation to actually get any useful reading plus founding through even worse menus.
    -Did I mention for a space sim generally about getting new ships, you're stuck in a single ship?

    Fundamentally, the game's broken, even asides from the bugs and the performance issues, the base game's broken. Less they actually bother changing that or some mod does, the game's essentially unenjoyable if you plan doing more than fly around the galaxy in first person in a single ship. Only reason you're even getting a 2 is because yes the game does look decent and battles in theory should be enjoyable if it weren't for the fact that they're not.    … Expand
  18. 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
  19. StraightsJacket
    Nov 16, 2013
    4
    At their core X games have always been rather difficult games to learn and to master. X Rebirth is EGOSOFTS attempt to create a more friendly experience for new players. While they meet that expectation in some areas, they sacrifice much of the immersion from their previous games.
    For one EGOSOFT did a big space/flight game no-no by focusing more on control-pad based interactions.    At their core X games have always been rather difficult games to learn and to master. X Rebirth is EGOSOFTS attempt to create a more friendly experience for new players. While they meet that expectation in some areas, they sacrifice much of the immersion from their previous games.
    For one EGOSOFT did a big space/flight game no-no by focusing more on control-pad based interactions. Navigating the UI feels rather slow and clunky using a keyboard/mouse and joystick setup. Many of the game choices and menus are navigable through XBOX like circular menus. Their settings->controls menu is very unintuitive making it rather difficult to map hot keys.
    In previous games a simple hot key could get you to any screen you wanted to get to quite easily. In X Rebirth, however, you must navigate through their circular menus multiple times to get to many of the options.
    Gone are the days of setting up a ship course and auto piloting to your destination while you keep a sector map up to look out for hostiles. Any menu actions you take from navigating to trading causes your character to swivel in his seat and focus on a small panel to the right.
    Graphics are a huge improvement over the other games, a lot more detail was placed in creating the over world. However when you actually dock at a couple stations you'll find they are just cookie-cutters of each other. Item placement, NPCS, consoles are all often in the exact same places. NPCs themselves are static, they stand in one place like a mannequin. Their dialog is awkward, short and choppy, and asking them questions will often net you an insult. I would say this is an improvement over other NPCs interactions in the previous games, however it is just so.
    The plot itself is rather uninteresting and your side character is a rather cliche female companion. If you choose the campaign option, you are locked into the plot so don't expect to go empire building just yet.

    Overall the X Rebirth should have just stayed in the womb.
    Luckily EGOSOFT has a good reputation in continually supporting their games so hopefully we will see some changes. The X modding community is second to none and I expect a lot of improvements to the whole game to come from that community. But as a base game I can only give X-R a 4.    … Expand
  20. kallekla
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    I have played for 4 hours now and I like the atmosphere in space in x rebirth. I am also fine with the one ship like it was in X Beyond the frontier and some other design decisions they made. The framerate could be better but it's actually quite playable, at least on my system.

    BUT: after about 3 hours of playing I am now stuck in the campaign. There is a mission where you have to buy    I have played for 4 hours now and I like the atmosphere in space in x rebirth. I am also fine with the one ship like it was in X Beyond the frontier and some other design decisions they made. The framerate could be better but it's actually quite playable, at least on my system.

    BUT: after about 3 hours of playing I am now stuck in the campaign. There is a mission where you have to buy and sell energy cells, but your freighter gets stuck due to a bug. This makes the game pretty much unplayable at the moment.

    Other things i noticed:
    its really obvious that the game is meant to be played with gamepad (menus dont work well with keyboard)
    keyboard controls cant be changed at the moment
    there are many issues with the voice playback    … Expand
  21. 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?
  22. Hardcard
    Nov 18, 2013
    4
    This is for Revolve, who has insulted all those who rated the game below 5 (as is my case).

    I'll start by describing the status of my last X3:TC saved game: 200 million credits (2 million credit profit every 5 minutes) Over a hundred factory complexes (over a thousand factories) Over 600 ships. Most plots finished. Maximum rank for all races. So no, dear Revolve, I'm not stupid    This is for Revolve, who has insulted all those who rated the game below 5 (as is my case).

    I'll start by describing the status of my last X3:TC saved game:
    200 million credits (2 million credit profit every 5 minutes)
    Over a hundred factory complexes (over a thousand factories)
    Over 600 ships.
    Most plots finished.
    Maximum rank for all races.

    So no, dear Revolve, I'm not stupid or a noob, and the savegame above proves I have patience and know my X3:TC pretty well.

    I find it funny that you delude yourself by thinking that peolple like me are posting biased reviews...
    I guess your statement "so please take these idiotic nerdrage reviews as the useless spur of the moment rage induced rubbish that they are, and read the 5 to 9 reviews for a more balanced viewpoint."
    isn't biased at all, right? You basically said this: If you fail X:Rebirth here, you are some nerdy idiot full of childish rage.
    LOL, I'm amazed that your review is still posted here...
    Do you know what I don't do? I don't usually reply to comments like yours, but I will make an exception this time, same as you seem to have done.

    I won't insult you just because you rated this a 9, you are entitled to your opinion, that's the point of this space. I could start trolling you about how could you rate a broken game that high, and so on, but I won't.
    I had to restart the campaign 3 times because, at some point, X:Rebirth decides to get stuck and not to activate the scripts that, theoretically, make the campaign advance, plus, savegames become corrupted pretty easily. I don't discard another campaign restart, by the way, because I think it got stuck again.
    But that's just me and thousands of others, don't worry, we are just idiots, right?
    So X:Rebirth runs fine in your rig? Congrats, there are plenty of people who aren't so lucky, it's not that they are what you called them, it's that X:Rebirth has many bugs and it crashes regularly, more easily than it should.
    Are you willing to rate this broken game a 9? Go for it, but don't insult me just because I'm not willing to pass a game that I can't play properly because it crashes and gets stuck at some point.
    I can't use my joystick, by the way...oh,but of course, as long as I can use keyboard+mouse, the game is absolutely great, right? The ship panel doesn't respond/disappears too often, the interface is limited, uncomfortable and it hides commands instead of presenting them in a clear way. Have you tried to trade? I've tried over 20 times during campaign play. When I do, the game gets stuck or crashes 80% of the times.
    An X game that doesn't allow you to trade and you expect me to pass it? Who the hell do you think you are? I really expect extensions will greatly improve UI, remote ship/factory management, etc. that's my hope, otherwise I'll be demanding a refund.
    Now let's talk about graphics. Exterior graphics are acceptable, but not great (most textures are average to low res and polygon count is too low in too many models). Environment models and textures are the best of the game from a visual standpoint, and yes, Egosoft made this one thing right.
    Interior and character textures/models, however, are a crime considering it's 2013...they were good in 2004, but that was long ago.
    What about performance? Do you even know what's my rig?
    Here you go:
    i7 2600k overclocked to 4.4Ghz
    gigabyte z68xp-ud4
    OCZ vector SSD 128gb (aligned,optimized, AHCI enabled)
    16gb ram
    gtx560ti 1gb

    I don't know about your rig, but mine runs pretty much any demanding game without incidents, it freaking flies.
    Well, X:Rebirth runs a little bit below par most of the time, but in hazy areas it starts lagging too much and, sometimes, it suddenly starts lagging for real (around 10 fps or even less) then it's time to relaunch the game. This is, clearly, some bug within X:Rebirth, for I've never experienced this kind of lag with any other demanding game...my rig has seen a lot of those and it always makes me proud.

    Is everything wrong in X:Rebirth? Thankfully no.
    -Ambience is, in my opinion, its top feature. Sector visuals are astonishing.
    -There is a high level of traffic in almost every sector and you have plenty of stations (station sections) to scan and explore also in 1st person (although interior graphics are bad and interaction is limited). I'm not sure it comes close to X3:TC/AP scale, though.
    -You can dock with your cap ships. You can watch the cap ship travel/fight from the dock while it gives you a ride to the desired sector. Also, now you can target/destroy/hack specific systems of cap ships, the same way you could do in the X-Wing sim saga.
    -While this is not necessarily a good thing, SETA has been replaced by powerful boost engines with limited duration. Now it takes much less time to cross a sector. Roads/highways have replaced jumgates, in case you like them.

    Regarless of these positive elements, I give it a 4. X:Rebirth has serious bugs that break the game and, for now, it doesn't deliver as promised.    … Expand
  23. 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
  24. Volcanno
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    My initial review was a 5. It was mainly due to poor performance/graphics ratio. In any case. the graphics look like they are from 2006 (except space). Space in this game is awesome though and it is probably the only thing that keeps me interested. But here are objective bad parts of the game:
    1. Why is there only one (maybe two) types of female npcs? Moreover its an old hag with saggy    My initial review was a 5. It was mainly due to poor performance/graphics ratio. In any case. the graphics look like they are from 2006 (except space). Space in this game is awesome though and it is probably the only thing that keeps me interested. But here are objective bad parts of the game:
    1. Why is there only one (maybe two) types of female npcs? Moreover its an old hag with saggy boobs who is in tights and speaks in a young schoolgirl voice...wtf? Whenever they try to put some glasses or hats on any of the npcs, they look crooked and out of place...cmon. Moreover, NPCs just stand in stations and ships like statues, not doing anything...immersion breaker.
    2. The stations are all pretty much the same (found 3 varieties one of which is the inside of a ship u dock into). The loot that you might find on the stations is always the same and in the same location. Finding anybody in the station feels like a choir and doesn't add anything towards immersion.
    3. Poor UI, very poor. Kill it with a spade, stab it in the brain, get rid of it...makes me want to cry.
    4. Your companion is annoying...her "Shut up Betty" needs to stop. She needs to be vented out of the ship.
    5. The MAP! Just look at this blinking horrible zone/sector/galaxy...ugh...cant call it a map.
    6. Bugs. Many of them. I couldn't complete the tutorial when i had to buy and sell some energy cells. At least in X3 AP if NPCs cant do it, you can do it for them. Here though, you cannot do it any other way but through an NPC and when its bugged....cant complete mission.
    7. No proper controller support.

    Warning: (Tears incoming).
    I want to like this game...i really want to, I still cannot believe we all got ripped off so hard. I feel cheated and if i had a chance i would have refunded my game...I would not recommend it to anyone ever and egosoft...I lost all the respect i had for you. Never ever ever i will buy a game from you.
    (Tears Over).
    Guys, I know i told you to wait for the patches and get it when its on sale...but, now I got to say stay away from it entirely. Do not buy it.    … Expand
  25. Nasher
    Nov 16, 2013
    4
    The game is just lacking compared to the older ones. Theres also a lot of bugs, some gamebreaking (e.g. unable to progress with missions). The FPS content just seems pointless and cheaply done (theres about 3-4 different areas and character types that are re-used everywhere) theres only 1 flyable ship, the map makes no sense and the UI is awful, capships sometimes clip right throughThe game is just lacking compared to the older ones. Theres also a lot of bugs, some gamebreaking (e.g. unable to progress with missions). The FPS content just seems pointless and cheaply done (theres about 3-4 different areas and character types that are re-used everywhere) theres only 1 flyable ship, the map makes no sense and the UI is awful, capships sometimes clip right through stations instead of flying around, You don't seem to have much control over your fleet of NPC ships.

    If you want a good X game buy of of the previous ones. Even if this one gets fixed it's not great.    … Expand
  26. wolverine101
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    I came to say I told you so, a game that will be $5 in no time at all after this buggy and flawed release. If we don't stop it with bad scores and with our wallets they will keep doing this to us. It's only gotten worse over the years. Surely you have noticed it also. The game was already boringing the way you placed stations and built ships before but now they have made it take evenI came to say I told you so, a game that will be $5 in no time at all after this buggy and flawed release. If we don't stop it with bad scores and with our wallets they will keep doing this to us. It's only gotten worse over the years. Surely you have noticed it also. The game was already boringing the way you placed stations and built ships before but now they have made it take even longer with these stupid module systems. The ai needs more help than the cosmetics or the game mechanics......as usual for these games.… Expand
  27. Cereal_Killa
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    This game is full of bugs, but even if they were all fixed, it would still only get 2/10 max for horrible design choices.

    They have taken X3 and tried to cater to a wider audience but ended up alienating everyone. Taking complicated menu's and making them only accessible through a controller radial menu system does NOT equal user-friendly! Forcing users to play contrived minigames    This game is full of bugs, but even if they were all fixed, it would still only get 2/10 max for horrible design choices.

    They have taken X3 and tried to cater to a wider audience but ended up alienating everyone.

    Taking complicated menu's and making them only accessible through a controller radial menu system does NOT equal user-friendly!

    Forcing users to play contrived minigames like superhighway leap frog and run around stations to trade (also looting crates, WTF this isn't zelda), and asking everyone to show their skills..

    The game is very poorly designed.

    The gyroscopic radar was REMOVED.

    The map was REMOVED.

    Highways send you to places with no visibility of the journey.

    Prepare to have no idea where you are and just follow the yellow arrow to the destination of your ONE QUEST.    … Expand
  28. elConejo
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    feels like an underfunded crowd project. 22fps avg. with a GF590GTX/core i7 setup and reduced details, npc's lost their voice...freezes very often and finally just crashes. perkiness or ridiculous, not sure yet...gfx is at level 2008, esp. the modelling of npc's and platforms. think i've to pay 100€ overall, before i can bear this, 50 for the pure download and 50 to get drunk
  29. starwolf
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    I fell in love with the X series when I purchased x3 reunion on a whim. Never had I been more drawn into a universe than with the X series. My steam page shows me as having 260 hours into x3 reunion, with even more into modded x3:tc.

    X-rebirth is an abortion. Sure, it's pretty (while in space... the stations are lifeless, inhabited by automatons and repeat endlessly), but the rest    I fell in love with the X series when I purchased x3 reunion on a whim. Never had I been more drawn into a universe than with the X series. My steam page shows me as having 260 hours into x3 reunion, with even more into modded x3:tc.

    X-rebirth is an abortion. Sure, it's pretty (while in space... the stations are lifeless, inhabited by automatons and repeat endlessly), but the rest of the game is clearly dumbed down. I love hearing people say "streamlined" and "accessible" and swear it never impacts the depth of gameplay. It always has, and always will. The game has flown far from it's roots as a space sim, as it is clearly designed to use an xbox controller exclusively (to this date I've not found a way to make any of my joysticks: warthog, x52 or old- school MS Sidewinder FF2 work with it). There is no trading, you simply have to manually fly to a station, then wander about, hear some canned dialog, click through some menus (again designed for controller) then order another ship you own to do exactly what you already did... since you can only have one ship, and apparently it cannot hold anything other than yourself.

    In summary, X-rebirth is to the x-series what the NGE was to Star Wars Galaxies. In 3 to 5 years the modding community may make it into something playable, but I have a gut feeling that most of the bad design decisions (single ship, bad UI, trading mechanics) are hard coded. I'd say go ahead and try it when it's in the 5 dollar bin, and you have nothing else to play.    … Expand
  30. Valex666
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    I SOOOOOOO wanted to like this game...it had so much potential and it could have been EPIC... but EGOSOFT join the Prereleasers Club with members like Creative Assembly with their Rome 2, Firaxis with SimCity and Volition with Saints Row 4....
    The game is not done... its Beta stage... EGOSOFT should have learned from Blizzards legendary quote "its done when it is done".
    Its buggy, laggy,    I SOOOOOOO wanted to like this game...it had so much potential and it could have been EPIC... but EGOSOFT join the Prereleasers Club with members like Creative Assembly with their Rome 2, Firaxis with SimCity and Volition with Saints Row 4....
    The game is not done... its Beta stage... EGOSOFT should have learned from Blizzards legendary quote "its done when it is done".
    Its buggy, laggy, and seems like EGOSOFT dident think things through enough.
    The menus are so confusing its a joke, it could have been so simple to make a nicely overview where you could see your ships cargo, where you want to send it to and so on, instead there are menues hidden in menues and some more menues in that menu... a kid could have done a better job... AI broken as hell... i spend 3 hours sitting infront of a station waiting for my transportship to show up, but god knows where it was...
    The stations are the worst of all... They are copy/paste.. they all look the same... every bar is the same, every warehouse is the same, no civilians to make them feel alive, only wierdlooking folks to hire... where are the thriving spacestations, the barren outskirts mining colony, the army bases and the pirate bases like Mass Effect and other games that had some imagination?????
    Im a patient man, love hard games, love complex games, plays EVE online for my 7'th year now, but my patience with this game has run out... shame on you EGOSOFT!!!!!!    … Expand
  31. matthoday
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    This is shameful. I have played the X series since X2 and this is NOT an X game. The user interface is terrible, shockingly bad. The textures and graphical fidelity is something you would expect from 5 years ago. The performance is dire considering how bad it looks. The game is not stable at all with regular freezes and crashes. The highway system sucks and the map/info windows are soThis is shameful. I have played the X series since X2 and this is NOT an X game. The user interface is terrible, shockingly bad. The textures and graphical fidelity is something you would expect from 5 years ago. The performance is dire considering how bad it looks. The game is not stable at all with regular freezes and crashes. The highway system sucks and the map/info windows are so obtuse they feel like a hinderance.

    Egosoft what are you doing? I feel this had so much potential but you fell very short, it is full of great ideas and I really wished it was the game you wanted it to be but it isn't.

    Don't waste anymore time or money on this, give up, there is too much too fix, I cannot imagine this ever being close to what it should have been.    … Expand
  32. 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!
  33. Theta_Sigma
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    Before I begin, permit me to clarify where I stand on X games: though I owned and played a small amount of X3 and its expansions, I have never really been an X series gamer, as I've never been able to really 'get into' the games due to their lack of new-player support, steep learning curves and sub-optimal UIs. I did, however, appreciate the great depth, level of control and complexity ofBefore I begin, permit me to clarify where I stand on X games: though I owned and played a small amount of X3 and its expansions, I have never really been an X series gamer, as I've never been able to really 'get into' the games due to their lack of new-player support, steep learning curves and sub-optimal UIs. I did, however, appreciate the great depth, level of control and complexity of X3's universe, surely the selling points of the X brand. I write with 8 hours of gameplay experience so far; I have been very patient with using the functions to see how their usage unfolds.

    X Rebirth set out with numerous objectives. First and foremost, to revitalise the X series with a new, modern version of the game that built on the existing success with new graphics, better accessibility and general additions and enhancements to the gameplay. Sadly, they have failed on all of these counts save two: the game is, indeed, beautiful, and it is more accessible. Alarm bells should no doubt have been ringing when the download size for this game was smaller than Albion Prelude's size alone, despite having newer, larger art resources for the better graphics...

    Sadly, the price that has apparently been paid for a marginally better campaign and tutorial (and I do mean marginally) is the actual flesh and bones of the X series.

    Let's start with the most obvious restriction in game functionality: ships and piloting. Its predecessor, X3, allowed you to pilot any ship from a small fighter up to a huge naval battlecarrier. In contrast X Rebirth has fallen to new lows you have one 'special' starter ship, and this is all you can and will ever be able to pilot, DLC plans notwithstanding. Every other ship you own is limited solely to being given orders over a clunky wheel-menu that seems almost like it was designed for a console controller. There is an 'order queuing' system, yes, but there is no menu for visualising and controlling the orders of your fleets, so it's your best guess from what you've assigned them with your wheel menu.

    Of course you have a 3D If only having 1 possible ship is the price that must be paid for a 3D then I don't personally think it was worth it particularly as you cannot even free-look around this (let alone walk around it) outside of the entering-ship animation... This is a double insult to the notion of having a 3D as not only does it mean it's largely a gimmick, but in space combat (and in general) you cannot look in a different direction without turning your entire ship. And you need to, because your art restricts your field of view.

    On the topic of the come the menus. Sadly, these have achieved something thought previously impossible: they are actually more clunky and harder to use than even X3's menus were. And even if the menus weren't painful to navigate due to the need to use console/gamepad-esque forward and back buttons to navigate, they're built into swinging your entire camera around to a pretty, but time-wasting 'centre console' in your 3D which means you cannot quickly check and close the menus or your map (as there is no minimap and no radar anymore...), but rather have to spend what seems like an eternity either way, as your ship auto-stops, to check your flashy centre console.

    SETA is gone and we're told by a developer today that we don't need it, due to the built-in magical boost ability (that only your one pilotable ship has) and the new hyperspace highways. This is not the case, because guess what your one pilotable ship has *no cargo capacity*, and cannot be upgraded to have any. All trading is performed by separately owned freighters, which have to crawl to where you have just tried to directly by goods in order to process the transaction which means waits of 20 minutes and more, regardless of highways with no time compression. By the way, there's no autopilot, and the 'highways' function much like the old gates, connecting 'zones' which are practically small sectors, so you have to actually manually steer your ship changing highways by crossing zones for as many jumps as you need to make to get to your destination.

    It's quite hard to phrase just what has been lost in terms of ship variety and control, and the lack of proper in-game menus to control the potential complexity of the game. In return, we've got the ability to get out and 'walk around' in stations and ships which are, as it turns out, copy-and-paste clones of each other, with identical-looking NPCs sitting or standing in exactly the same room and positions on every station, abysmally voice-acted and with no real dialogue. The interior of every freighter and capital ship is equally an identical copy-paste SMALL 'cargo bay' no fancy corridors or bridges, guys.

    It has to be asked if they sacrificed so much control and detail to free up resources to make gimmicks like the and so-called 'interiors', why are these so poor?    … Expand
  34. jedibrendon
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    Played for only 4 Hours, Cannot do anything else because of the amount of bugs in this game. At first I really enjoyed it, now I hate it and ask myself why I wasted $50.00 on this unfinished game.

    Lets start with everything being copy and pasted, every space station is the same, you go into your ships and you can't walk through them you can only stay in the hangar this was one feature    Played for only 4 Hours, Cannot do anything else because of the amount of bugs in this game. At first I really enjoyed it, now I hate it and ask myself why I wasted $50.00 on this unfinished game.

    Lets start with everything being copy and pasted, every space station is the same, you go into your ships and you can't walk through them you can only stay in the hangar this was one feature I was really excited for) The squad system doesn't work, my main cargo ship will not leave the stupid space station and has now broken the game as I can no longer progress.

    The AI is retarded, I'd have a better conversation with a wall, hell the wall would have a better personality, these AI are stupid as hell. And why the hell is every single human, a bald old grandma??

    7 years in the making my ass, this is a terrible game, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, I also want a refund but doubt that will happen. This game had so much promise, and unless the devs update the out of it, I wont be playing again.    … Expand
  35. Dyvim_Slorm
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    Very poor indeed on PC. The game does NOT support a joystick even though the manual says it does, graphics are cartoon-ish and the HUD is less then helpful with no options for numeric feedback. I also found the HUD cluttered and unclear and the mouse is over sensitive.

    Maybe it will be better if it gets patched but for the time being save your money. I find it unacceptable that this    Very poor indeed on PC. The game does NOT support a joystick even though the manual says it does, graphics are cartoon-ish and the HUD is less then helpful with no options for numeric feedback. I also found the HUD cluttered and unclear and the mouse is over sensitive.

    Maybe it will be better if it gets patched but for the time being save your money. I find it unacceptable that this game is being charged at nearly £40 sterling for the state it's in, had it been say £20 I wouldn't be so upset.

    I've played all the X games but this one really isn't fit for purpose at present    … Expand
  36. 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.
  37. Ayreos
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    Whether you approach the game as a veteran X player or a new space sim enthusiast, you'll be sorely disappointed. The game's positives are massively overshadowed by countless throwbacks to an ancient generation of computer gaming, bugs and misguided attempts to emulate recent commercial successes. If you are ready to stomach 2004-level animations and frustrating design choices just to getWhether you approach the game as a veteran X player or a new space sim enthusiast, you'll be sorely disappointed. The game's positives are massively overshadowed by countless throwbacks to an ancient generation of computer gaming, bugs and misguided attempts to emulate recent commercial successes. If you are ready to stomach 2004-level animations and frustrating design choices just to get your hands on a twitch-based space sim, you'll be much better off with an actual 2004 game.… Expand
  38. gouki12
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Ugly character models, clunky gameplay and optimization of the worst kind.

    25 fps on maximum settings and 30 fps on lowest possible settings ?

    Wut.
  39. Basejumper123
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    What can I say? As a fan of the whole X-series I had such high expectations for this game.

    What we got made me feel not only disappointed, but also ripped off. The trailers and hype highlighted the (admittedly) beautiful space scenery and combat, while hiding the broken mechanics, control system, menu layout, ridiculous script, amateur voice acting, and bad indie-game last-gen graphics    What can I say? As a fan of the whole X-series I had such high expectations for this game.

    What we got made me feel not only disappointed, but also ripped off. The trailers and hype highlighted the (admittedly) beautiful space scenery and combat, while hiding the broken mechanics, control system, menu layout, ridiculous script, amateur voice acting, and bad indie-game last-gen graphics when docked at a station.

    Egosoft lead us to believe that we would be getting a first person experience at the level of quality we have come to expect in the series. What we got was a basic and uninspired (freelancer-esque) place where players can wander and explore the same few rooms on every damn station while trying to locate some poorly modeled and textured npc who will either offer to "show us their wares" or (if you ask for the ship dealer which no longer exists) will simply insult you and end the conversation.

    This game is a travesty, and Egosoft should be ashamed for having made it. If I thought there was any chance of getting one, I would ask for a refund.    … Expand
  40. Stanger828
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    I have played all the X games, and love how deep they are. Building galactic empires, engaging in huge trades, dog fights, capital fleet fights. It is all wonderful (and the graphics were good for the time when they came out).

    I have a Gaming PC which plays BF4 without a hitch, but this game kills my system with graphics not on the same tier as BF. Now, I can't really say too much    I have played all the X games, and love how deep they are. Building galactic empires, engaging in huge trades, dog fights, capital fleet fights. It is all wonderful (and the graphics were good for the time when they came out).

    I have a Gaming PC which plays BF4 without a hitch, but this game kills my system with graphics not on the same tier as BF.

    Now, I can't really say too much about the gameplay as I can't play for long with 20fps but here are my first thoughts:
    - cool I can walk in stations, but it seems more like a chore and it's not very alive. I was hoping for a mass effect atmosphere.
    - the stations do look awesome and are huge.
    - The UI stinks. But the UI typically does in all x games. I found it difficult to navigate the maps though, and that was one thing which was easy in x3.
    - Hiring crew is cool.
    - ONLY ONE SHIP?!?! X has always lured me in by allowing me to try all the different ships, have a bunch parked at my HQ and get to have completely different game experiences based on which ship I'm in.
    - The highway system is stupid. Ill take Seta and jumpdrive thanks.

    But alas, maybe if I could properly enjoy the game without the eyestrain I could understand the dramatic changes in design. I have been waiting years for this game, this is the most disappointed about a game release since Dragon Age 2.    … Expand
  41. ParGellen
    Nov 17, 2013
    2
    I had to change my review now that I've played the game a bit more. I was originally optimistic and thought I could see around some of the problems and give the developers the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately I have now come to realize now that this game is a complete disaster. Avoid at all costs.
  42. garlor
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    4 in graphics
    0 in interface
    2 in gameplay systems

    you will spend more time waiting for a ship to deliver/receive goods than doing anything else, oh and walking inside stations looking for some dude

    poor game overall, x3 was way much better
  43. jazzroutine
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I'm ashamed to be an X fan.
    Don't buy this game!
    X-universe is totally ruined, gameplay in terrible, price is too high, this game isn't ready for release at all.
    Lots of mouse actions, ugly menus, terrible performance, no map!!! Lots of stupid minigames and arcade style gameplay. ONLY ONE SHIP TO FLY!
  44. rawhide1970
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    What an incredible disappointment this was. No free look inside the no external camera views, can only fly one ship, joystick support is totally broken, and the interiors and NPCs look and act like 2003.

    I was a huge X3 fan and have been looking forward to this for years. Shameful Egosoft, shameful...
  45. NycoFox
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    Not completely bad... but far from what I expected. The graphics are quite bad, especially the character models. One would think they'd put some more focus on the characters you'll spend much time with on the ship, they look completely awful compared to other games today, even Half-Life 2 has much better characters, and don't even get me started on the character animations... Movement inNot completely bad... but far from what I expected. The graphics are quite bad, especially the character models. One would think they'd put some more focus on the characters you'll spend much time with on the ship, they look completely awful compared to other games today, even Half-Life 2 has much better characters, and don't even get me started on the character animations... Movement in FPS mode is also bad, it feels like you're running at max speed everywhere, and the controls just don't seem to keep up with your insane movement speed.

    I can't understand why there's no joystick support for this game, the mouse controls are sluggish and feel like a bad port from consoles, which is ironic when you realize that this is a PC exclusive game.

    Combat is also completely weird, it took me ages to figure out how to kill two simple drones in the very beginning of the game. Getting killed that early in the game just felt frustrating.

    I haven't even bothered to start exploring the economics of the game, for me this just feels like a complete waste of €50. Stay away, at least until they're released some MAJOR patches to fix what feels like an unfinished game.    … Expand
  46. CalUKGR
    Nov 15, 2013
    3
    This is a huge disappointment: the game is janked. I have a PC that can comfortably run just about anything, including all the most recent triple-A titles with ease. Rebirth has serious problems keeping frame rates above 20, sometimes dipping well below. Incredibly (as if to add insult to injury), there are NO external camera views this is a baffling omission in a space sim, did theThis is a huge disappointment: the game is janked. I have a PC that can comfortably run just about anything, including all the most recent triple-A titles with ease. Rebirth has serious problems keeping frame rates above 20, sometimes dipping well below. Incredibly (as if to add insult to injury), there are NO external camera views this is a baffling omission in a space sim, did the developers forget or just not bother?

    Absolutely dreadful if the developers are prepared to patch this game it MAY survive this launch debacle, but as things stand there are many, many angry gamers flaming the Steam forum right now and with very good reason.

    Egosoft need to up their game and put in some serious effort to rescue Rebirth from an early death.    … Expand
  47. 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.
  48. AcidCasualty
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    This game is an unplayable mess. It's one big bug. Released in pre-alpha, it promises a nearly impossible list of features that would revolutionize the space sim, if they worked. Without offering spoilers, I can say that if you get the game past the initial memory error crashes, you'll discover most of said features don't work. Every aspect of X Rebirth is broken, from music playback toThis game is an unplayable mess. It's one big bug. Released in pre-alpha, it promises a nearly impossible list of features that would revolutionize the space sim, if they worked. Without offering spoilers, I can say that if you get the game past the initial memory error crashes, you'll discover most of said features don't work. Every aspect of X Rebirth is broken, from music playback to overall performance and responsiveness. This is not a bad game; it's the murderer of a once-great franchise. Avoid at all costs.… Expand
  49. Yanishka
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    So sick of companies releasing games that have NOT been tested EVER. STAY CLEAR of this now broken series... you deserve to FAIL EGOSOFT for you poor excuse for a dumbed down console retard game
  50. Veevs
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    Summary:
    In making the game accessible to the more arcade style player while trying to cater for the guys who made the x series so popular they have inadvertently broken the game as a whole.
    Overall it feels like a console port (and a bad one) of a game that is simply unfinished, I would hazard a guess that in the seven years of development they tried to do to much, had poor direction    Summary:
    In making the game accessible to the more arcade style player while trying to cater for the guys who made the x series so popular they have inadvertently broken the game as a whole.

    Overall it feels like a console port (and a bad one) of a game that is simply unfinished, I would hazard a guess that in the seven years of development they tried to do to much, had poor direction and got overtaken technically by out of the box game engines, as such they decided to stop development patch it up and release it to try and get some of their money back (or get mod monkeys to do their leg work).

    I am still trying to work out just what the game is within this sandbox.. will let you know if I find out.

    Positives:
    - Crew: More detailed crew stats are a good idea.
    - Targeting components: Being able to target individual cap ship/station components was something missing from x3.
    - Component Customisation: Individual station/ship components nice little idea (though not well implemented).
    - Universe: Lots more going on (possibly a negative).
    - Accessibility: Improved for the console type player in some ways, who will probably enjoy the game until they hit something that was tailored for the strategy gamer.

    Negatives:
    - Navigation: Removal of the Autopilot is a dreadful idea.. to dock you have to find the right icon on a huge station (from many icons) and fly close to it then try and click on it (maybe just me but takes 10-20 tries to get the tiny dock menu option to show) to fly to any place you have to manually fly there (even if its 20 sectors away through the one way systems they have implemented) through a series of one way highways (each with its little mini game).
    - UI: The UI is supposed to be easier but in fact its far worse (at least I could read the options in x3) the game almost pauses you and swivels (away from space view) to a separate deep menu system that is pain to navigate.
    - Context menu system: Unresponsive menus (with a tiny font.. hell didn't even realise I had a menu open until I stumbled on it), no right click on objects (stations, items, ships etc) detract from the overall environment.
    - View: Fixed static view (with no mouse look), simplified to the level of silly, takes up 1/3 of the screen (making seeing and following targets a pain), miserable setting (same through game as you can't change ship) and removal of external view is also a bad idea.
    - Fleet management: Not happy with the console interface at all.
    - The ship: A single albeit upgrade-able ship removes a large chunk of the fun I had from the rest of the x series, e.g. choosing the right vessel for the job, trying new ships, piloting capital ships,
    - Map: A key component to any space game (due to the nature of space) is the map, this is one feature that you simply can't live without in any space game and in this game its dreadful, unreadable and poorly implemented.
    - Interiors: Interior graphics so bad they are on par if not worse than games from the 10 to 15 years ago (and not joking), dialog options poor, layouts mostly the same (no matter what station)...
    - Mini-games: Why oh why do they even bother even on basic things like travel.
    - Graphics: Universe looks great but badly optimised (esp in the fog/dust whatever sections).
    - Characters: Poor voice acting (often repetitive and annoying), static, badly animated with no personality.
    - Combat: Could of been good but is dumbed down to a level of annoying.
    - Autosave: There isn't one.
    - Trading: Miss my x3 trading systems.
    - Controls: Keyboard controls are not customisable and poorly implemented requires a joypad.
    - Bugs: Game stopping bugs all over the place.
    - Universe: Lots of smaller systems and lots more ships make the game feel very un-space like.
    - Highways: Might of worked (it's nice being able to drop out part of the way through) but overall its like a massive spaghetti junction that's easy to get lost in.
    - Campaign: Poor story-line like a series of tutorials that sometimes tell you to do the wrong thing.
    - Immersion: Oddly the new stuff for me which should make it more immersive (interiors, removal of right click menu on ships, components, autopilot removal, smaller systems) does the opposite.
    - Stations: Each one is a great big sprawling mess with multiple components and docking ports due to the nature of being able to target/kill each component there is no real central hub.

    Way forward:
    Can't see patches being able to fix fundamental flaws in the game it to much of a halfway house between arcade, simulator and strategy.

    Going to give it a week (of potentially painful game-play).

    Final thoughts:
    Utterly disappointed, for me they would of been better off tweaking the engine from the X games to add the few new features that are worth a look at.

    My background in the X series:
    Old school avid gamer and X universe nut (literally 100's of hours playing X3: AP, TC and reunion)    … Expand
  51. starhawkprime
    Nov 16, 2013
    1
    First off I can understand why the fan boys are giving this release nines and tens, they REALLY want to love this game and are willing to overlook a staggering number of bugs and design decisions that are at best questionable. I now have the entire X series from boxed editions to steam releases and have to say this has been the roughest launch I have seen! As previous reviews have statedFirst off I can understand why the fan boys are giving this release nines and tens, they REALLY want to love this game and are willing to overlook a staggering number of bugs and design decisions that are at best questionable. I now have the entire X series from boxed editions to steam releases and have to say this has been the roughest launch I have seen! As previous reviews have stated the game seems to have been built for a console, as many people cringe at the thought of keyboard shortcuts a game like this needs them. Unfortunately the inevitable side effect of dumbing down controls is to dumb down the game play experience. The complexity may still be there but you cannot efficiently access it while your cycling through button presses and mouse clicks.
    Graphics don't necessarily make a good game but the frame rate does! I'm currently averaging around 15-20 FPS in open space and 5-10 around stations. I do realize that my 6850 HD is not cutting edge but it does play a mean game of crysis 2. Npc models almost look liked they were imported from X2 and what the hell is up with that hatchet faced old bitty that shows up on almost every station. She strikes fear in me more than a Xenon Armada!
    On the topic of mini games, I see nothing wrong with them once the frame rate issues are solved, trade lane drafting is kinda neat except for the fact that control was laggy and I would over shoot out of the highway. Docking your ship by clicking icons really kicks you out of the immersion, on this one I think star citizen has it right idea.

    These are my some of my many gripes with this game, 5000 metacritic characters are not enough to cover it all. Egosoft I think you have released some of the best space games ever but this one is a stinker. Hopefully after a crap ton of polishing and tuning you can turn this game into another winner!    … Expand
  52. tagos
    Mar 6, 2016
    5
    I gave this a well deserved 2 originally. Having played it recently and used a ton of mods to get rid of large chunks of the game I now give it a 5.

    It's still quite badly bugged but nothing like before. You can get rid of a lot of the irritating and stupid bits. But you still fly the same crappy ship using the same crappy flight model. So if you want to do a bit of trading and    I gave this a well deserved 2 originally. Having played it recently and used a ton of mods to get rid of large chunks of the game I now give it a 5.

    It's still quite badly bugged but nothing like before. You can get rid of a lot of the irritating and stupid bits. But you still fly the same crappy ship using the same crappy flight model.

    So if you want to do a bit of trading and building then you might like it.

    It's not really a space sim, it's more of a management sim really.    … Expand
  53. ProfessionalGuy
    Nov 15, 2013
    4
    kinda shocking how unfinished the game seems
    i got stuck twice in a station
    German voice act is for ****
    terrible interface
    no clue how to open the map with the game pad
    being locked to the one ship is a annoying
  54. Dexyt
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    This game is a scam. It's an early development version rushed out the door in which nothing works properly. To make matters worse, the game design itself is flawed in many areas, including but not limited to: any complexity, depth and difficulty has been stripped away to make the game playable with a game pad; there is no radar; the maps are useless; the player is limited to a single ship;This game is a scam. It's an early development version rushed out the door in which nothing works properly. To make matters worse, the game design itself is flawed in many areas, including but not limited to: any complexity, depth and difficulty has been stripped away to make the game playable with a game pad; there is no radar; the maps are useless; the player is limited to a single ship; the universe is tiny; the designers have made the deliberate decision to force the player to walk around stations even if this part adds nothing to the game. Finally, the game has massive performance problems even on top notch systems.… Expand
  55. DreadnoughtShan
    Nov 15, 2013
    4
    Very poor graphics, with high system requirements. Awkward control. Often crashes. No exploration. And it just boring.
    If you like X3 as i am you will be very disappointed.
  56. Metametheus
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    Base standard for my review... FIX IT, FAST!.
    I've played a lot of buggy games in my time, and I didn't think a early release (Actual) would be worse than Sword of the Stars II which was a pretty bad early release, those of you who have played and know what I am talking about will get the idea, but its worse in X Rebirth, a lot of the control systems are buggered, no joystick support    Base standard for my review... FIX IT, FAST!.
    I've played a lot of buggy games in my time, and I didn't think a early release (Actual) would be worse than Sword of the Stars II which was a pretty bad early release, those of you who have played and know what I am talking about will get the idea, but its worse in X Rebirth, a lot of the control systems are buggered, no joystick support unless I use Pi, damn near a crash bug every 15 20 minutes, a lot of graphical command problems where you'll see twitching or fizzling in the graphics and I am not talking about combat. (And before anyone tells me otherwise, all my graphics drivers are up to date, my directX is upto date, my Sound is upto Date, and yes my C++ Redistributables are current with 2008, 2005 effectively as well). I would recommend this game after a stern redevelopment point kinda like what CDProjectks and Kerberus do when they say: Enhanced Edition. Because this has 1.2.1 Worth of patches written all over it, and its only 1.0.0.    … Expand
  57. Ugh
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    i7-4770K 4.5Ghz
    16GB RAM 2600Mhz
    GTX780 SLI
    Less than 40FPS at max settings.

    Poorly optimised and rushed to release. Advertised as an X game and is clearly not an X game.
  58. torm08
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    I have played for about 2 hours now and these are my initial impressions.

    Game play is clunky and designed for Xbox and PS3 and has been just dumped on the PC making things very problematic if you do not have a controller. Mouse and keyboard are poor second place to a controller. Graphics are for a PC title very poor. Characters are badly animated and have more polygons than you    I have played for about 2 hours now and these are my initial impressions.

    Game play is clunky and designed for Xbox and PS3 and has been just dumped on the PC making things very problematic if you do not have a controller. Mouse and keyboard are poor second place to a controller.

    Graphics are for a PC title very poor. Characters are badly animated and have more polygons than you would expect given the year. 5 years ago these graphics would be acceptable today not. Space and ships look OK at a distance but close up you can see the lack of textures.

    Given the poor graphics even with a top of the range PC the performance is poor with numerous random pauses and slow downs.

    Story line is like something written by a child of 10 and less said about the voice "acting" the better. The opening part of the story is clearly the tutorial which is a great idea. Sadly the guidance on what you need to do is most of the time hard to decipher and at times very unclear.

    Overall I would honestly like my money back. Was a huge fan of the earlier X titles but this is a poor relation indeed. Paying £10 for this would make the score maybe 6/10 but for the amount of money being charged 2 is a fair score.

    Stay clear unless you are a huge huge fan of space trading and even then think hard before spending your hard earned cash    … Expand
  59. vanzi
    Nov 17, 2013
    2
    Unfinished game, initially designed and developed for consoles, but for some reason they changed their mind somewhere halfway through the development and decided to make a PC game.

    Literally every aspect of the game is dumbed down or simply cut out from the X3 series. There are a lot of plot-breaking bugs. The interface is terrible and even some extremely basic features are missing    Unfinished game, initially designed and developed for consoles, but for some reason they changed their mind somewhere halfway through the development and decided to make a PC game.

    Literally every aspect of the game is dumbed down or simply cut out from the X3 series. There are a lot of plot-breaking bugs. The interface is terrible and even some extremely basic features are missing (fleet command being dumbed down to "follow me" command that cannot be even undone). The entire walking in stations part looks as if it was made in 2000 and it's not only ugly, but also makes a lot of simple tasks a chore.

    The two positive things about the game as it stands now are the graphics (as long as you don't leave your ship) and space combat. That is, assuming you can actually enjoy this part which is pretty random with the nonexistent optimizations and generally a lot of people reporting 10-20 fps on fairly high end machines (or at least, way above what the developers recommended, think of i7 GTX780).

    Generally, while the plot-breaking bugs can (and most likely will) be solved, I'm afraid that the number of horrible design choices cannot be recovered from in predictable future.

    X3 fans should really stick with X3TC/AP. It would take years for XR to come anywhere near the complexity of modded X3TC (eg. xTended). In its current state it's hard to recommend this game to anyone, at least wait until they fix the plot-breaking bugs and the price drops to $20.    … Expand
  60. Lupy123
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    Really....REALLLYY!! ....this cant be the game I've been waiting years for. All they had to do was improve on what they already had, but this a monstrosity of a game. All the things that made the early games great have been stripped...I absolutely hate it.

    The first person sections are un-needed and are grotesque in their simplicity...the models are terrible by the way, every where you    Really....REALLLYY!! ....this cant be the game I've been waiting years for. All they had to do was improve on what they already had, but this a monstrosity of a game. All the things that made the early games great have been stripped...I absolutely hate it.

    The first person sections are un-needed and are grotesque in their simplicity...the models are terrible by the way, every where you looks is a horrible cropped haired woman with a face like a smacked arse.

    I cant believe I paid £40 for this, I feel betrayed.    … Expand
  61. razoreqx
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    To start this is a title that was intended on bringing new life to the community for which I was a part of since 2003. X was a very hard game to play and took many months to master. X Rebirth was promised to fix this by creating a X for dummies which intended on adding features like first person on bases and an easier GUI for the player and easier control for your owned assets.
    instead    To start this is a title that was intended on bringing new life to the community for which I was a part of since 2003. X was a very hard game to play and took many months to master. X Rebirth was promised to fix this by creating a X for dummies which intended on adding features like first person on bases and an easier GUI for the player and easier control for your owned assets.
    instead its a mixture of horrible bugs, unplayable storyline, and impossible sandbox mode. I bought this game on Steam based on the 10 years of great community history with the company and overall satisfaction with the previous version.
    I gave this game 20 hours of wanting to really like it. It has bugs from factions, to graphic issues to crashes with most of the video settings. Its far short of easy to play, even for the season players because they changed everything behind the mechanics of the game.
    If you like looting on bases and picking u crates and opening lockers then you might like this game.
    Today on the forums they are asking the community which bugs they should address first.
    sad fact is all the new players drawing to X by pre-purchasing Rebirth are left unhappy and asking for refunds (of which they will never see). I deleted my account on their forums and this puts an end to any support I ever had for this company in the 10 years of support they got from me.. including beta testing.
    I would not buy this product for least a year based on my experience with other X titles.
    Game over for me Ego.. Sorrry. You made me look like an idiot recommending this game to my friends and ripped me off 50 bucks for trusting you.    … Expand
  62. byte01
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    The performance of this game is terrible while the graphics are horrible. I'll wait for a couple of patches before I retry this game. I am a tad disappointed... other games run just fine but this game, even on it's lowest settings, is very, very sluggish.
  63. alex-smollet
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    Game crashes periodically. Poor graphics. Not optimized. In the BF4 with Ultra settings at 1920px I have 120 45 FPS but in this I have only 15 30 FPS, not good at all. Jump gates now is silly arcade game. No cameras. No free look. Map can not be scrolled and zoomed. HUD design and information terrible. 25 dollar wastage.
  64. zepoxi
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    This game isn't ready for release. It might look great on trailer but trailers are made to look great. The game industry standard is to release half finished content with game crashing bugs and hope to patch it up later.
    This game does not deserve a 0 but I only gave it one to counter the 10 's and 9's it got. Best case, it'll drop down to 5 or,maybe 6, no more.
    Do not get this game    This game isn't ready for release. It might look great on trailer but trailers are made to look great. The game industry standard is to release half finished content with game crashing bugs and hope to patch it up later.
    This game does not deserve a 0 but I only gave it one to counter the 10 's and 9's it got. Best case, it'll drop down to 5 or,maybe 6, no more.
    Do not get this game until it's properly fixed.    … Expand
  65. saz
    May 28, 2015
    0
    Still has bugs and the design just isn't engaging. Crazy folks are putting up high marks. Auto pilot drops you in station hulls where you have to restart or instead of going directly towards a gate takes you on a scenic path that is longer that I have boost for. You can't destroy stations and can only build in certain spots. The factions just spawn ships so the economy is just for you.Still has bugs and the design just isn't engaging. Crazy folks are putting up high marks. Auto pilot drops you in station hulls where you have to restart or instead of going directly towards a gate takes you on a scenic path that is longer that I have boost for. You can't destroy stations and can only build in certain spots. The factions just spawn ships so the economy is just for you. Highways suck. I'm constantly muting stupid chatter with NPCs, Ren and Yesha like every time you ask for wares or assign a new superior. Mods help but aren't updated so many aren't working now. FPS issues in certain zones so you have to change graphics options back and forth. I spend all my in game time just flying around stations. It's no fun. And all the trading is done in a tiny text window. Come on how about a nice drag and drop or something that doesn't resemble DOS.… Expand
  66. Elbo5995
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    "After playing x hours the game is fantastic!", "Awesome game, don't listen to haters!"... 10/10
    Hey, you Egosoft guys just try to randomize your pretty reviews a little bit!
    This game is horrible. If you are X series veteran, just stay away from it. It shares nothing with previous games. Primitive gameplay mechanics, dumb space combats, fiddly in-game menus and interfaces, ugly NPC    "After playing x hours the game is fantastic!", "Awesome game, don't listen to haters!"... 10/10
    Hey, you Egosoft guys just try to randomize your pretty reviews a little bit!

    This game is horrible. If you are X series veteran, just stay away from it. It shares nothing with previous games. Primitive gameplay mechanics, dumb space combats, fiddly in-game menus and interfaces, ugly NPC and station interiors, horrible dialogue sounds, just_one_ship_to_fly (Skunk what a stupid name for space vessel), tons of bugs, very bad performance even on Corei7/280x/SSD.
    The only nice things are pretty space backgrounds and music.
    I assume that Fail of the Year trophy goes from ACM to X:R.
    You dissapointed me, Egosoft.    … Expand
  67. blackdata
    Nov 15, 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.
  68. Ikarian
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I played X:TC and X:AP, both fantastic with really great freedom, non-linearity gameplay, many ships etc.
    I played these games for many days, sometimes even eight or ten hours by day. Now, I bought X Rebirth and I lost because of that 1,400 CZK for NOTHING!!! Its unbelievable this game was so long developed and is such great step backward... pity I can not refund.
  69. pigsonthewing
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    people rating this a 10? get some standards. Played all the x games and truly X Rebirth is horrible. 7 years of development for this? what the hell were they doing? Pc gamers have the best controllers available, keyboard and mouse, joysticks, hotas, etc and you design an entire game around a console controller? Complexity? only a console owner would find this complex. Criminal.people rating this a 10? get some standards. Played all the x games and truly X Rebirth is horrible. 7 years of development for this? what the hell were they doing? Pc gamers have the best controllers available, keyboard and mouse, joysticks, hotas, etc and you design an entire game around a console controller? Complexity? only a console owner would find this complex. Criminal. I'll give this game a 1 for trying to release something for the PC.… Expand
  70. hailey
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    X-Stillbirth would have been a more appropriate name. This game is truly awful, it takes the cake of worst PC release of 2013 by a mile. Yes, it's even worse than Rome 2. Sadly it will capitalize heavily on Star Citizen hype, it doesn't deserve your money or your time. Avoid at all costs. Terrible performance, terrible gameplay, terrible UI, terrible game.
  71. sk1e
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    I`m really into space games. Was waiting a non indie project to be cool and good looking, but what i get? Horrible optimisation, only 1 ship to fly, horrible looking npcs,
    i can run bf4 on high, but this 10-15 fps.
  72. rss334
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    Where is the game they advertised? How do I buy that game instead of the game I have now? Total disappointment, the X3 name has been ruined by this release. Shelving this and will wait for patches, going back to the previous versions of X3 for now.
  73. ante1
    Nov 15, 2013
    1
    Game has too many bugs to be considered for proper release. Controlling your own ship is easy enough, but the obtuse menu structure and "conversations" to be had with your employees make it next to impossible to actually achieve anything. Be prepared to spam the quicksave button as well, played for a few hours and crashed multiple times with a "Extreme UX error". The tutorial isGame has too many bugs to be considered for proper release. Controlling your own ship is easy enough, but the obtuse menu structure and "conversations" to be had with your employees make it next to impossible to actually achieve anything. Be prepared to spam the quicksave button as well, played for a few hours and crashed multiple times with a "Extreme UX error". The tutorial is garbage, no way to review the mission logs, no autopilot, no way to directly control other ships, no fun. The developer lost the soul of X3 by taking out the grittiness of directing an armada of ships and replaced it will a bloom-riddled series of mini-games.

    Save your money, this game isn't a good value at half the price right now. Hopefully they get the user interface in order and work out the kinks.    … Expand
  74. Squicker
    Nov 15, 2013
    3
    Game is not ready for release. It is bug riddled, performance is atrocious even on Core i7 GTX780 and there is no proper joystick support, only gamepad! The graphics are dated, I'd place this game somewhere about 5 years ago, and the character models are awkward. The dialog is stilted and delivered by very poor voice actors.

    There is a tutorial but it is unintuitive. It is great    Game is not ready for release. It is bug riddled, performance is atrocious even on Core i7 GTX780 and there is no proper joystick support, only gamepad! The graphics are dated, I'd place this game somewhere about 5 years ago, and the character models are awkward. The dialog is stilted and delivered by very poor voice actors.

    There is a tutorial but it is unintuitive.

    It is great there are so many buildings with different modules to inspect etc, and the game is clearly brave in terms of scope, but the implementation is very weak indeed.

    I've actually asked for a refund for my game as this is not the game that Egosoft are advertising.    … Expand
  75. rizzo212
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    A console port in the making. Way to support the PC demographic that has supported and fixed your games for 15 yrs, Egosoft. this game should be refunded to people who pre-ordered, and it should be sold at $30 for full price. This is a complete joke on the fanbase.
  76. xDarkstorm
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    lol... its so bad you have to laugh after paying £40 to play it.. they kept it secret and only showed certain for a reason and now we know why. Stay clear at all cost.
  77. maxim72
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    This is not X
    It's a total disappointment. All features that make X Universe solid are cut out or oversimplified. When X3TC was true sandbox, where you could do whatever you want whenever you want, this is just scripted rail-straight stuff, just like singleplayer campaign in CoD.
    Horrible optimization and bunch of bugs. Needs some serious patching. Better stick with Terran Conflict,    This is not X
    It's a total disappointment. All features that make X Universe solid are cut out or oversimplified. When X3TC was true sandbox, where you could do whatever you want whenever you want, this is just scripted rail-straight stuff, just like singleplayer campaign in CoD.
    Horrible optimization and bunch of bugs. Needs some serious patching.
    Better stick with Terran Conflict, which is more playable then this     … Expand
  78. JAV1L15
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    This game deserves around a 3, but there's too many people jumping up and down holding 10/10 cards.

    I am bitterly disappointed.... Having fallen in love with the X series since X3: Reunion, I was greatly anticipating this said rebirth of the series, the rebirth brought: - poor performance - lack of joystick support - horrible graphics, Half Life 2 has better visual    This game deserves around a 3, but there's too many people jumping up and down holding 10/10 cards.

    I am bitterly disappointed....

    Having fallen in love with the X series since X3: Reunion, I was greatly anticipating this said rebirth of the series, the rebirth brought:

    - poor performance
    - lack of joystick support
    - horrible graphics, Half Life 2 has better visual presentation, and that came out 9 years ago!
    - awful voice acting
    - console style settings page.... For a PC exclusive
    - stupid gate highway system
    - a sector map consisting of thousands of clumped grey squares
    - overall terrible game decisions that have not been justified (the story is horrible, yet because of this story we are restricted to only ever flying one ship)

    I look forward to awakening my Paranid and OTAS combined arms fleet in albion prelude, time to kill some Xenon the proper way    … Expand
  79. danceswithfools
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Next in line after

    COD: Ghost
    Total war :rome 2
    Hitman Absolution

    all the money and effort went into paying Odesk employees to sway review sites and marketing.
    The games are pretty shells with a turd inside.

    Zero points to make up for all the people being paid to vote 10
  80. SirMeno
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Grief! Slop graphics with horrible optimization with fecal epic animation and muddy textures! Where physics? What a shameful shooter in space with elements of monopoly? How to return my money back? Give me back my money!
  81. Jazoray
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    This game is inferior to its predecessors in every way. It's full of flaws and bad design decisions. It's not worth even a tenth of its retail price.

    The horrible framerates are inexcusable. Given such crude graphics, the game should run a lot faster. There are numerous Bugs in the game, ranging from annoying things like highly fluctuating FPS, to showstoppers like the interface    This game is inferior to its predecessors in every way. It's full of flaws and bad design decisions. It's not worth even a tenth of its retail price.

    The horrible framerates are inexcusable. Given such crude graphics, the game should run a lot faster.

    There are numerous Bugs in the game, ranging from annoying things like highly fluctuating FPS, to showstoppers like the interface becoming unresponsive until you restart the game, or a story mission becoming impossible to solve because the mission target simply ceased to exist.

    the gameplay has no depth at all. There is very little activity for the player himself. at all times, you feel disconnected from the rest of the universe because your crew does all the interactions for you. Is this social anxiety simulator 2013?

    The interface is horrible. Anything you do, you do through crew members. And Every time you want to do something, you have to listen to their single line of dialogue until you're allowed to continue, which gets annoying quickly.
    You're not allowed to move your ship while using a menu, so you spend most of the time standing still because to even look at your cash balance, you have to navigate through several submenus

    Navigation simply doesn't work. at all times you lack a sense of direction.

    It all mess makes you wonder what the devs were doing in those 7 years they took to regurgitate this junk heap of a game.    … Expand
  82. 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.
  83. CLHansen
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I am a disabled gamer. I have no finger dexterity, and very limited hand coordination, but I can play everything from Skyrim to Call of Duty--though I'm a lousy shot. Control customization means everything to me, especially for the mouse. Egosoft has ignored-- almost, purposefully, it seems--to allow even something so common as inverting the "y axis" in flight. Yes, you can invertI am a disabled gamer. I have no finger dexterity, and very limited hand coordination, but I can play everything from Skyrim to Call of Duty--though I'm a lousy shot. Control customization means everything to me, especially for the mouse. Egosoft has ignored-- almost, purposefully, it seems--to allow even something so common as inverting the "y axis" in flight. Yes, you can invert walking about in first person, but not in flight. You can't even choose to fire your weapon with the left mouse button. Or unbind the mouse wheel from throttle.

    These are game breaking issues for me.

    I wanted to love this game, too. Hell, I could've overlooked almost any kind of bug to this.
    It's just a shame. I really thought this would be the one.

    But, hey, they got the xbox controller working for a PC game. I guess that's something.    … Expand
  84. sergeplay
    Nov 15, 2013
    3
    X-universe is totally ruined. Never imagined that Egosoft can release a game of such quality. Menu controls are unusable, graphics totally outdated.
    I can barely imagine that patches can make this product playable.
    No more pre-orders for their releases.
  85. ceva
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Awful graphics, awful animations, textures from 2005 even on max adjustments. All of those, who rated it >5 score obviously developers from egosoft. Play for two hours get three crash. Have not even autosave all progress is doomed.
  86. Xuro
    Nov 15, 2013
    4
    I have higher FPS on Valley ultra HD and X Rebirth that alone says enough. this is like Black Prophecy release only this game isn't supposed to have server lag, this is not like any other X game at all.
  87. Tekpc007
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    DO NOT BUY! it looks likes its made for console and game play feels that way also. Joysticks do not work Graphics are horrible even on a 770 very buggy does not live up to all the promised the devs made.
  88. b7ad
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Game has huge potential but completely destroyed at this point in time by horrific performance issues rendering the game unplayable. The graphics look really good, however texture quality up-close is very bad. Hopefully the performance issues can be resolved so we can actually play the game and give it a review based on actual gameplay.
  89. Scott44
    Nov 15, 2013
    3
    I have played the X games for years and spent a lot of time in them, wonderful, immersive games.

    This is not X I dont know what it is but it's awful. I am bitterly disappointed. Terrible voice acting, terrible graphics (mainly inside stations), no camera views, silly minigames . There is no immersion for me here whatsoever. I can only assume the people giving it a 10 are    I have played the X games for years and spent a lot of time in them, wonderful, immersive games.

    This is not X I dont know what it is but it's awful.

    I am bitterly disappointed.

    Terrible voice acting, terrible graphics (mainly inside stations), no camera views, silly minigames .

    There is no immersion for me here whatsoever.

    I can only assume the people giving it a 10 are somehow linked with the company because it is nowhere near a 10 my 3 rating is an honest rating I tried to find some good points, but there are few.    … Expand
  90. Xehlwan
    Nov 15, 2013
    3
    The game has huge potential, and has everything you love from the previous X games.
    Unfortunately, the experience is marred by terrible performance, blatantly bad graphics for anything that isn't a spaceship or backdrop, and a UI that is even worse than the dated one used in previous games.
    Add the frequent crashes, and other numerous odd design decisions, and this game is sadly best    The game has huge potential, and has everything you love from the previous X games.
    Unfortunately, the experience is marred by terrible performance, blatantly bad graphics for anything that isn't a spaceship or backdrop, and a UI that is even worse than the dated one used in previous games.
    Add the frequent crashes, and other numerous odd design decisions, and this game is sadly best avoided for the time being.    … Expand
  91. blackbird1
    Jun 17, 2014
    0
    X Rebirth
    Average User Score: 3.1
    Jun 17, 2014
    5
    X Rebirth Imageomg i missklicked my first review and gave this mess a 5 BUT ITS a ZERO
    I never was so dissapointed by a game like this is the worst game for me of all time and i have 17 years of PC Gaming history
  92. Darkmater
    Nov 15, 2013
    3
    On a good note, they finally released the game, on a bad note its is shambles
    -- No Joystick support
    -- No head tracking support

    Didn't move the franchise forward, except make it maybe portable to a console in the future. Thanks for abandoning all things pc users want in a space sim.
  93. Masterhummel
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    I would love to give the game a higher score. But some of the design choices just don't manage to grab me. For example: Stations are plastered with npcs. But they look really awkward and sometimes miss animations. Also some look like they're supposed to be holding something but dont. It would be a minor complaint if they werent EVERYWHERE completly runiing the atmosphere. Another point ofI would love to give the game a higher score. But some of the design choices just don't manage to grab me. For example: Stations are plastered with npcs. But they look really awkward and sometimes miss animations. Also some look like they're supposed to be holding something but dont. It would be a minor complaint if they werent EVERYWHERE completly runiing the atmosphere. Another point of critique is the very bad performance. I have a rather decent pc and even for me the framerate jitters a lot, depending on the direction i currently look at. Very annoying in combat. The campaign as far as i plaid it is not very good. More like a tutorial coming directly from the developers instead from an story writer. It's mostly really awkward and somehwat childish. But well, i didnt buy X for the campaign so forget it. Overall, it's still a good X game but by far not the "rebirth" i was hoping for. It mostly seems like the budget was going into make things fancy then really thining things trough and maybe find new approaches. The new approaches they did like the higway minigames just don't seem very well-tought. I dunno... i just can't get warm with X: Rebirth. Still a O.K. game.… Expand
  94. Honner
    Nov 15, 2013
    6
    the game is what i wanted so far but the performance are horrible at the present moment, less than 30 fps (10 fps in battle) with a gtx 670, which make it painful to play.
  95. The_Ommadawn
    Nov 16, 2013
    7
    So far, I've been unimpressed by this game. As others have said, I was drawn in by the superb trailer and with a universe to explore, what's not to be excited about? Sadly, it's execution is insanely bad and such a disappointment. I have literally counted the days for release and even bought a Nidia 770 so it would play fantastic. It's frame rate is choppy, the graphics (excluding space)So far, I've been unimpressed by this game. As others have said, I was drawn in by the superb trailer and with a universe to explore, what's not to be excited about? Sadly, it's execution is insanely bad and such a disappointment. I have literally counted the days for release and even bought a Nidia 770 so it would play fantastic. It's frame rate is choppy, the graphics (excluding space) are average at best, the voice acting is sub par, the controls (keyboard and mouse) are clunky, the in game text is tiny, the combat is nothing like the demo is saw it's simply a mess and shouldn't have been released in this state. It needs another six months in development to finish the job. I'm lost for words that it took seven years to reach this standard. Were there only three people on the team? So, so sad.

    As it stands, I'm giving XR a 7. It has the potential to be amazing (and I have no doubt it will be after patching), but, the negative feedback is warranted. People have high expectations and what the Egosoft said they were going to deliver is only 60% there from a performance perspective. Times are hard and financially, the majority of the public can maybe afford one or two games per month. So when X rebirth doesn't live up to expectation, they vent. We were promised space stations to explore and we have them. What wasn't stressed is that they are the same station every time with different NPC's on board. I guess most would overlook this if the frame rate wasn't such an issue. You can tell so much heart and soul has gone into this game and I appreciate programming/coding is difficult. I can only assume the devs were forced to release in this incomplete state.    … Expand
  96. Scritty
    Nov 15, 2013
    5
    What is the "elevator pitch" for people to upgrade to this game? How is it an upgrade. I can see what it removes from X3 Albion Prelude, and sometimes removing things is a good design choice (though I don't think many nerfs in this game are good) but what Rebirth actually add?
    At the moment it's playing OK for me. Just.
    Being stuck in one ship is a terrible design choice, one I think the    What is the "elevator pitch" for people to upgrade to this game? How is it an upgrade. I can see what it removes from X3 Albion Prelude, and sometimes removing things is a good design choice (though I don't think many nerfs in this game are good) but what Rebirth actually add?
    At the moment it's playing OK for me. Just.
    Being stuck in one ship is a terrible design choice, one I think the developers will regret in the long term.
    Simplfying the trade. Those of use who loved the supply chain logistics of previous X games will be very upset this is almost completely nerfed here. One station does it all.
    Simpler? Yes More enjoyable? Nope not for me anyway.

    Combat has been dumbed down. Choices removed.

    Things like the stock exchange that was present in AP has gone, the none campaign missions also seem gone.

    The graphics while ok are not better than AP either (this is a direct X 9.0c game after all, so is running the same technology as the original X3 more or less)
    I'm not saying this is a bad game, just can't see the point of it existing who did Egosoft make it for? How is it more advanced or better than the last X3 update? I've only put 8 and a half hours in so far, but I might as well write this now, as I can't see me playing any more. It just seems to lack the depth and rewarding complexity of the last games. I'm looking for "new" or "innovative" and can find nothing... at all. Am I missing something?

    In short even when fixed, I'm not sure why I would play this in preference to Albion Prelude which is a larger, more mature, deeper and more rewarding game that looks the same (if not better) plays more smoothly...If anyone could answer that question I'd love to hear from them    … Expand
  97. TGMode
    Mar 5, 2015
    10
    I pre ordered this game and it was disappointing when it had a lot of glitches. The X series has been my favorite since X-Beyond. I knew the old games backwards and the new one was alien. I have since grown to love the game. The developers have been patching / fixing / improving the whole time and it's now a great game.
    Looking forward to the next installation.
  98. Xstar
    Nov 15, 2013
    7
    After 4 hours of playing the game and reading through a lot of comments stating that the game "is in shambles" or "crap" "worst than Rome 2" I've come to the conclusion that I have to write a first impression review of this game.

    First of all if you are a veteran of this series and have played several other X games before you may know that it is a little bit different than what you    After 4 hours of playing the game and reading through a lot of comments stating that the game "is in shambles" or "crap" "worst than Rome 2" I've come to the conclusion that I have to write a first impression review of this game.

    First of all if you are a veteran of this series and have played several other X games before you may know that it is a little bit different than what you know. Either new player or veteran you will need to invest time into the game in order to actually enjoy it.

    Graphics :

    The "old" parts of the game look gorgeous. The space ships and stations are very detailed and it's amazing the world "living and breathing" of its own. The "new" parts like the character models and the insides of the stations look rather disappointing. The textures are clunky and it seems to be a different world. It just does not fit. The new aspects of the game as said above are at the moment like the dark side of the game. You don't really want to set foot on the dark side enjoy the bright side as long as possible. 6/10

    Sound :

    Same as the graphics. Outside really amazing and inside not really that good up to a point where it gets rather annoying. The music played while flying through the sectors and systems was composed by an orchestra I think a fits really well to the space theme. 8/10

    Game-play :

    The controls for flying the ship and walking around are intuitive and especially the ship controls are very responsive. It's overall really comfortable to fly around with the ship. The combat system is not that different from the previous games of the series. The combat system is fine as it is.

    The menu controls are terrible. At least for me as someone who played the games before the new "easier" menus are just more confusing and nested. It is really hard to get the necessary information required for the current mission or if you just want to command your transporter to buy some energy cells good luck with that it will take you a while.

    7/10

    Performance Bugs :

    I have ready many complaints about having performance issues (low FPS and crashes) but I have not encountered any of this mentioned issues. My game runs fine on 60 FPS without any crashes or FPS drops.

    The same goes for bugs. People are complaining that there is a considerable amount of bugs preventing them to play properly and that the bugs are as major as the bugs in Rome 2 for example. I have not encountered any major bug until now so that's definitely not a point to use against this game.

    Sadly I can't really write an in depth review because the game was just released 4 hours ago. This are my first impressions and with the way Egosoft has handled their previous games I'm sure bugs and issues will be fixed in a few weeks so that everyone who bought the game is at least able to play it.

    Should you buy this game ?

    Well that's a tough question. I would not recommend buying it yet but I would also not advise against buying it. I did pre order the game ,because I really enjoyed the previous ones. Egosoft also does seem to be a company listens to their community so if you want to support Egosoft enjoyed X:TC or X:AP I'd and if you are fine with having a not perfect game (atm) then I'd say give it a shot. You could also wait for the price to drop.

    Overall 7/10 for now. With some fixes and adjustments it could easily get a 9/10 but also with nothing being done it could drop to a 5/10 depending on the progression of the story the Game-play in the late game.    … Expand
  99. Fraxture
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    This game is not ready to be on the market. It's as if they didn't even bother testing it but on a single specific machine. Tons of glitches, horrible frame-rates with even the best hardware on the market. And the textures, and character models remind hail back to the early 2000s. This game is not a finished product, and there is no way to believe they didn't know that.
    They have taken us    This game is not ready to be on the market. It's as if they didn't even bother testing it but on a single specific machine. Tons of glitches, horrible frame-rates with even the best hardware on the market. And the textures, and character models remind hail back to the early 2000s. This game is not a finished product, and there is no way to believe they didn't know that.
    They have taken us for a ride, and we fell for it.    … Expand
  100. Axe513
    Nov 15, 2013
    9
    such a disappointment.. i've seen 'alpha' versions of other games that seem more 'finished' than this.
    So far my rig has played every game without any problems but x-rebirth is the first to just make t grind to 10fps. It wouldnt be so bad if changing the graphic options made some kind of difference but turning everything off made hardly any difference. I have tried to persevere for    such a disappointment.. i've seen 'alpha' versions of other games that seem more 'finished' than this.
    So far my rig has played every game without any problems but x-rebirth is the first to just make t grind to 10fps. It wouldnt be so bad if changing the graphic options made some kind of difference but turning everything off made hardly any difference. I have tried to persevere for approx 5 hours because I love the x series and I know sometimes they are slow burners but there are just too many things not right with this game. What did they do for the whole 7 years they while they were making it...
    I did start to think maybe its my pc and maybe I should upgrade it, but I'm somewhat relieved to see that the majority of reviewers here are having the same problem. The scripting is also dodgy, the voice acting and lip synch are woefully bad, the characters arent believable.. One of the devs said it was like GTA in Space.. I think not! GTA is Fun! Very disappointed.    … Expand
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 24
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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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