X Rebirth

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1310 Ratings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Everyone who bought this deserves a refund.    … Expand
  8. MPCPRO
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    X: Rebirth is not really for release. It is complete unplayable for me, except for the random crashes, I get huge performance issues. FPS ranging from 10-60 with choppy and slow loading cut scenes. Game is really badly optimized, would have thought my GTX 590 would have been able to max this, since the game looks to be using 3-4 year old graphics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    my advice would be: save yourself the 50 bucks and invest them in Chris Roberts's "Star Citizen" instead.    … Expand
  10. coralie22
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    No stats for the weapons.
    Not possible to give commands to your own ships
    + no Balancing of Capital Ships( can destroy big Ship
    easily with your own little Playerships right from the Beginning)
    Tedious Micromanagement everywhere;Hiring Crews, Trading etc.
    Fazit:The Bugs could be fixed.
    The horrible Game"design" not.
  11. DJGandalf
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    The game is currently runs as an unplayable frame rate. But the limited amount that I did play I was thoroughly disappointed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Give it three months and the majority of the problems will be patched out and the community would have developed sizeable collection of mods to make it good. Unfortunately that won’t undo the damage of this PR fiasco and shocking launch.    … Expand
  12. Storming74
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    Do not buy. It's a scam because Egosft of us just trying to pull money. Egosoft the game was really excited. I am a true fan of the series X but we did not deserve this. Thank you for a wonderful Christmas. For 50 euros I prefer to be able to buy another game from real professionals and not bums such as Egosoft.
  13. HavocRazr30
    Nov 21, 2013
    1
    I do not like the direction Egosoft seems to be going with this game. It feels more like a FPS. It lacks the true depth and learning curve that the previous X games had. I loved the fact that I could buy AND pilot new ships, instead of just drones. Its not fun at all to just have one ship, granted I liked the Albion Pride design in X3: AP and wanted to capture it for my own, but still. TheI do not like the direction Egosoft seems to be going with this game. It feels more like a FPS. It lacks the true depth and learning curve that the previous X games had. I loved the fact that I could buy AND pilot new ships, instead of just drones. Its not fun at all to just have one ship, granted I liked the Albion Pride design in X3: AP and wanted to capture it for my own, but still. The game seems to rely on being a gamepad game too much now. I regret buying the game.… Expand
  14. malbosia
    Nov 24, 2013
    0
    You don't review a game as how others often referred to as FANBOYs see the game in a year or 5. If they had wanted to sell me something in a year or two THEN asked for my money with a finished product it would be a quite different question. As it stands this is a very clear cut situation of STAY THE HELL clear of this. You literally can not finish the tutorial/campaign without editing, andYou don't review a game as how others often referred to as FANBOYs see the game in a year or 5. If they had wanted to sell me something in a year or two THEN asked for my money with a finished product it would be a quite different question. As it stands this is a very clear cut situation of STAY THE HELL clear of this. You literally can not finish the tutorial/campaign without editing, and hacking into your own game saves. This is of course, if you can actually get the game to save. Basic functionality aside it is almost terrible at every level. I REALLY wanted to like and support this title, honestly. I normally don't make reviews on sites like this and just go about recommending good games to coworkers,fellow gamers by word of mouth. However, this is a train wreck and as most people will buy this from steam and not be able to recoup their money(NO REFUNDS) I feel and overwhelming NEED to steer people clear of this title and its publishers/design house. Please see the steam forums if you doubt what I say here and see how well past unhappy to ENRAGED people are about this game ...you really don't need to take my word for it.… Expand
  15. Seinekar
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    It feels like an Alpha. Quite buggy. From minor bugs, to total crashes that doesn´t let u play the game at all. But, even skipping that fact, the game is just a step back on X series.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Avoid at all costs    … Expand
  17. BerndtOut
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    As with many many others I'm disappointed with this game. They have totally forgotten why people play the games and removed any of the core features they were known for. It's a sad day for the X series. The 'features' they have replaced the game with are useless. Trading is now literally like taking your Granny to the shops, it really is slow and tedious. Building in set places only.As with many many others I'm disappointed with this game. They have totally forgotten why people play the games and removed any of the core features they were known for. It's a sad day for the X series. The 'features' they have replaced the game with are useless. Trading is now literally like taking your Granny to the shops, it really is slow and tedious. Building in set places only. Rummaging through lockers and boxes like a tramp for a few spare credits or some junk. Very little player choice. It just plain stinks as a game and as an X franchise game it's a blatant 1 finger salute to the fans.

    I would have given it a 2 but the CEO's comment 'What an amazing launch it's been!.' has made me realise it's Game Over for X and Egosoft. I think the CEO put the Ego in Egosoft!    … Expand
  18. Remarc
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    This game is dead...X-Tension game in 2000 year will be much better...................................................................................
  19. AndyCapobianco
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    The game is unfinished. The developers have charged full price for a terrible, unfinished game. The flying around space and scenery/details are good, but nearly everything else is terrible. An honest rating would be a 3/10. However the ill-informed positive reviews rating it 10/10 etc are misleading.
  20. LChapman
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    If you're a fan of the X series, and all of its depth and freedom, skip X Rebirth and continue playing X3.

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

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

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

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

    Hopefully, Egosoft will gain some sort of new fan base with their new "Lowest Common Denominator" approach, because they have certainly alienated and lost the fans they had.    … Expand
  21. XAbortion
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    I created an account on metacritic specifically to write this review. X Rebirth should have been aborted. A complete and utter piece of Stay away.
  22. Smeghead
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    I played this game for severel hours but gave up due to the superhighways droping me thousends of miles out in space. I know most of these bugs are being sorted out, but fixing bugs wont fix whats wrong with the basic game. It canot fix the god awful voice acting, the terrible layered menus, the single ship that you can fly, being a console port.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    I want to like this game so much, but there are just too many glaring flaws to get much actual enjoyment.    … Expand
  28. Jonhybee
    Nov 21, 2013
    0
    I wish I had read more reviews before buying the game but, being a huge X3:TC fan I was not careful enough.

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

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

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

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

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

    I have never been so dissapointed after purchasing a game (and the price tag was 50$ too...)    … Expand
  29. Koreenium
    Nov 23, 2013
    4
    What can I say.... I am really disappointed in this game. :(
    Graphics are bad, the animations are bad, textures are made in a hurry or something because any beginner photoshop user could make textures like those or even better and the saddest part is that I am not kidding.
    Performance at the moment is terrible. I got like average 30 fps on med-high end PC. The story seems to be garbage.    What can I say.... I am really disappointed in this game. :(
    Graphics are bad, the animations are bad, textures are made in a hurry or something because any beginner photoshop user could make textures like those or even better and the saddest part is that I am not kidding.
    Performance at the moment is terrible. I got like average 30 fps on med-high end PC.
    The story seems to be garbage. Voice acting is not that great.
    I have not found anything positive worth mentioning     … Expand
  30. MevriS
    Nov 19, 2013
    3
    As I am about 15 hours into the game I am now able to give a short review about it.
    It is playable if you have a powerful gaming computer and as there are very few graphic options in the menu you won't be able to adjust performance according to your hardware as freely as pc games would normally allow you. Not to mention the serious optimization issues and frequent framerate drops that    As I am about 15 hours into the game I am now able to give a short review about it.
    It is playable if you have a powerful gaming computer and as there are very few graphic options in the menu you won't be able to adjust performance according to your hardware as freely as pc games would normally allow you. Not to mention the serious optimization issues and frequent framerate drops that occur even if you run it on an high end pc. It has a fairly impressive sound options menu though.
    Controls are smooth and mostly intuitive but compared to previous X titles it seems way to 'consoly' in my opinion even though they are still too clunky for me playing with a controller. Mouse and keyboard are working good but players with multibutton gaming mouses won't be able to take full advantage of their hardware as mouse controls aren't rebindable.
    Even in the current build 1.14 the game still suffers from frequent crashes and as it has no autosave you'll find yourself constantly mashing the quicksave button.

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

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

    3/10 (2/10 if I weren't a fan of the X-Universe)    … Expand
  31. Poly
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    The graphics are gorgeous and i like the IDEA of playing with a controller. But these already are the good points. The main game itself is nearly unplayable at the current state and is NOT worth the 50€!
  32. xenolf
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    10 hours in and it has been an awful experience.
    Out of the 10 hours I've been playing I've spent 70% of the time working around bugs and fiddling around the abyssmal joke of a console ported ui.
    Graphics are ok, but this does not give you anything if the game just doesn't work. In my opinion, the bugs are patchable but not the failure they call "game design". Let's see what you get    10 hours in and it has been an awful experience.
    Out of the 10 hours I've been playing I've spent 70% of the time working around bugs and fiddling around the abyssmal joke of a console ported ui.
    Graphics are ok, but this does not give you anything if the game just doesn't work.
    In my opinion, the bugs are patchable but not the failure they call "game design".

    Let's see what you get for your 50 bucks:
    Abyssmal UI that makes you want to bite into your keyboard? Check!
    Having to wait hours for your ships to do literally anything? Check!
    Not being able to do anything else while waiting for a ship because you have to babysit them? Check!
    Having coding skills for savegame edit's to work around bugs? Check!
    Voice acting that makes you shudder? Check!
    Character models that let Half Life 1 look good again? Check!
    A story my 4 year old brother could have written? Check!
    Minigames that make you want to uninstall the game after being forced to do them over and over? Check!
    SNES type "search all 'treasure boxes' in static stations? Check!
    Generic NPC clone army? Check!

    And to be honest, who thought it was a good idea to have the player dock every time he want's to use a station's service needs to get fired.

    I have waited a long time for this game and after all they've promised us, it's been an utter disappointment.    … Expand
  33. Mahovolich
    Nov 19, 2013
    3
    The engine has been poorly optimized and fps are unchanged across all settings and resolutions. In an attempt to streamline the horrible menu system of previous titles and make it more user friendly they have torn the heart out of the game, dumbing it down. The animations of characters once outside the ship are laughable even for a budget title and the voice acting could have been doneThe engine has been poorly optimized and fps are unchanged across all settings and resolutions. In an attempt to streamline the horrible menu system of previous titles and make it more user friendly they have torn the heart out of the game, dumbing it down. The animations of characters once outside the ship are laughable even for a budget title and the voice acting could have been done exponentially better by your local high school drama club. The is just for show and is a nonfunctional overlay/border with blinking lights. Avoid at all costs until patched.… Expand
  34. Animorganimate
    Nov 20, 2013
    3
    Bugs aside this review is based off the gameplay and design choices alone. Rebirth really shouldn't be considered an 'X' game. If Rebirth had been a new, independent franchise looking for a home on consoles, it would be a mediocre game at best (that's why I gave it a 3). But by slapping the letter 'X' on the box, Deep Silver has essentially suckered its fanbase in buying a bad game. IBugs aside this review is based off the gameplay and design choices alone. Rebirth really shouldn't be considered an 'X' game. If Rebirth had been a new, independent franchise looking for a home on consoles, it would be a mediocre game at best (that's why I gave it a 3). But by slapping the letter 'X' on the box, Deep Silver has essentially suckered its fanbase in buying a bad game. I have a hard time believing this game was initially designed to be an 'X' game in the first place. I feel like Rebirth was being designed for a different purpose and only later did it become Egosoft's problem. I look forward to a few years from now when this whole thing is forgotten about and a proper X4 is delivered to us.… Expand
  35. DemiGoth
    Nov 22, 2013
    3
    Game LOOKS good, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about it. The problem with this game lies in the performance that most players (me included) have. Decent systems that give 45FPS or more in other games give only 15FPS in X Rebirth. And it's just that why I give this game a 3 the performance is so low that it's UNPLAYABLE.

    On the good side though, EGOsoft is busy    Game LOOKS good, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about it. The problem with this game lies in the performance that most players (me included) have. Decent systems that give 45FPS or more in other games give only 15FPS in X Rebirth. And it's just that why I give this game a 3 the performance is so low that it's UNPLAYABLE.

    On the good side though, EGOsoft is busy patching, they did find the bug causing most of the performance issues (my bet it's mostly architecture of older Intel and all AMD CPUs). But a week down the road and a daily patch (yes, a new patch every day EGOsoft does really work on it!) still didn't give the performance every other game gives.

    So for now a 3. Perhaps I'll re-review it when the performance bug has been squashed and I can actually comment on the game itself    … Expand
  36. Vanadyel
    Nov 20, 2013
    4
    Never played any X games, did not check the news and I like the genre (loved Freelancer) so there is no "fanboy" factor in my opinion.
    Graphics are unoptimised, my rather good computer has constant 10fps near busy space stations no matter if I set the graphics to minimum. Ther UI is one of the worst I've ever used: slow, messy, counter-intuitive. Crashes regularly, even after the hotfix.    Never played any X games, did not check the news and I like the genre (loved Freelancer) so there is no "fanboy" factor in my opinion.
    Graphics are unoptimised, my rather good computer has constant 10fps near busy space stations no matter if I set the graphics to minimum. Ther UI is one of the worst I've ever used: slow, messy, counter-intuitive. Crashes regularly, even after the hotfix.
    It is very sad since this game has a great potential: a very immersive universe and a rather good soundtrack. You can visit your ship that has 1 room. You can talk to and hire a lot of different characters... but a lot of them have the same voice and lines (oh jeez I wanna kill the copilot who says always the same thing when you're docking).

    Welcome to X Rebarf.    … Expand
  37. SQLOwns
    Nov 20, 2013
    3
    Days after "release" and nothing has been fixed/added. By the developers own admission this game is unfinished. Shame on them for passing it off as finished on the Store Page. And shame on Valve for allowing them to do so. Very unethical and illegal in certain parts of the world.
  38. fullmetaltojo
    Nov 20, 2013
    4
    Where to start with this game. Is it broken? Yes. Does it feel unfinished? Mostly certainly. Does it have problems? Without a doubt. Is it worth buying in it's current state? No. But that's not to say that it doesn't have it's good points. It doesn't currently have many, the one's it does are buried under layers of poor design choices and if not game-breaking bugs,Where to start with this game. Is it broken? Yes. Does it feel unfinished? Mostly certainly. Does it have problems? Without a doubt. Is it worth buying in it's current state? No. But that's not to say that it doesn't have it's good points. It doesn't currently have many, the one's it does are buried under layers of poor design choices and if not game-breaking bugs, having-to-find-a-way-to-make-this-work ones.

    As mentioned in most other reviews, the ability to walk around space stations is a novel idea, it's just horribly implemented here. The NPCs are ugly, the corridors are repetitive, the general thievery allowed is baffling and the textures are low-res.

    Outside the stations the vista's are much improved, if not a bit cluttered. This is space where no-one allowed for the fact that space is HUGE by shoving everything into a tiny area and linking things by gaudy highways. Despite only using DX9 the environments can be strikingly beautiful, when the textures aren't tearing. And travelling between sectors is fun, the highway mini-game is a nice idea, again an idea that doesn't quite work because your beautiful view is taken up with a badly textures ship in front, sometimes that you are half-way clipped into.

    Combat is fun, if not extremely hampered by the massive restriction in POV, no way to lock onto nearest targets and lack of radar. Yes it's a space game. With no radar. Another baffling design choice. Also when being attacked outside of space stations your are punished for self defense as if you were the original aggressor. Frustrating!

    Trade is. Well I'll let you know if I can get it to work. Currently I'm hampered by the fact that my ships keep disappearing from my owned ships list. It's hard to trade when you are lacking a means to do so.

    Egosoft seem to be patching things up at a nice pace, even if the patches don't seem to be addressing, in my mind, the biggest flaws in the game. It's currently a 4 in my book, has the potential to improve. But it has a long, long gaudy yellow highway ahead of it.    … Expand
  39. steelgrey75
    Dec 16, 2013
    4
    Well I personally have been massively disappointed with this game. I can accept that they wanted to make the game a little more action orientated, and that they thought streamlining it would make the game playable to more users, but I can't accept the end product.
    I have played for 60 hours, free play, I stopped campaign after about 2 hours of play due to bugs and the storyline is boring    Well I personally have been massively disappointed with this game. I can accept that they wanted to make the game a little more action orientated, and that they thought streamlining it would make the game playable to more users, but I can't accept the end product.
    I have played for 60 hours, free play, I stopped campaign after about 2 hours of play due to bugs and the storyline is boring and uninspiring. In those 60 hours I tried to establish a trade empire, just as I used to in the other X games, and build up a fleet. The trading is tedious, having to constantly fly around looking for offers that expire after an hour or so and need to be done again. The money earned from trading is insignificant to boarding and selling captured ships, even long range scanning earns you more money than trading does, so whats the point in it?
    Fleets are useless, with no offensive commands or navigational orders. The ships just follow you along through enemy sectors getting blow up by fighters.
    Boarding has been made easier to the point that is no challenge. There is not an enemy in the game that makes me afraid, not one. Boarding used to be about careful planning and detail, gathering ships together, massing the ships at as et point and then executing your boarding. It was hard, it was dangerous, but it was fantastic when you pulled off a good one. I don't get any feeling of satisfaction from boarding in Rebirth, its mindlessly simplistic.
    The UI is horrific, even with a 360 pad, with multiple layers in radial menus. They said they made it this way because the old UI was bad, it was a hundred times better than what it is in this game, it couldnt have been done any worse.
    Station interiors. Well the idea sounds good, and done right it could be amazing. What we ended up with was a load of cut and paste nasty looking station interiors, populated by static NPC's that look like they come from the PS1. Conversation mini games, crawling through air ducts to open red boxes, pointlessly silly things that simply do not belong in a space sim.
    Space. Well its pretty enough, its not amazing but it is certainly good. The stations look good. Combat seems great at first, more like an ace combat style. Soon though it becomes apparent that your never going to have to face that many enemies at once, just small groups, mostly single fighters spaced far apart. They also are very easy and you kill them with no harm to yourself. Not having any control over targeting is bad too as you frequently lose the lock on the target you want and often then lose track of it completely. If you attacked from anywhere other than directly in front of you you'll never know its coming until you are hit.
    The skunk. One ship need not be that bad if done properly, with a large array of upgrades and weapons to choose from it can be very good actually. Yet we ended up with hardly none of that. The choice of upgrades and weapons is pathetic. The is welcome back, but in doing so all other views have been dumped and you can only look straight ahead which kills the immersion and makes awareness impossible, you dont even know whats behind you. Of course I have to mention the "copilot" whose only piloting abilities are to dock the ship. Mindless lines of drivel spouting out of her mouth, an irritating and pointless distraction.
    Exploration is made all that much harder with the new map that is very difficult to read and is not interactive, not even allowing you to select a target which in busy systems is sorely missed as finding some ships can be a nightmare.
    There are those that say in months to come it will be better, and a lot of bugs ironed out and improvements made. However I'm reviewing the game today, not in the future, and today I think its worth no more than 4/10.    … Expand
  40. Falcone
    Sep 1, 2019
    8
    X Rebirth in 2019 feels like a good game with bad trading system. I spent more than 10 hours to understand how trading works.
    In comparison with X4:Foundations this game has an interesting story.
    Omicron Laire perhaps has the most beautiful solar system I've ever seen.
    I'd like to mark this game as 10/10 but unfortunatelly I can't, the game has its own problem.
  41. xtom
    May 17, 2020
    9
    On release this game took a review battering but playing after a number of big patches have been released and I can say this game is a space sim gem and does not deserve the low really low rating it currently has here.
  42. exotikras
    Aug 12, 2019
    9
    I like this game so far. I should be patient of course because some game elements are slow and clunky, but in general the game is bug free (almost, except of bumping ship all around while you returning to your seat). I like campaign so far (it's tutorial basically). Basic combat is way way easier than at Elite for example and it's good thing. I can't stand idiotically hard combat at EliteI like this game so far. I should be patient of course because some game elements are slow and clunky, but in general the game is bug free (almost, except of bumping ship all around while you returning to your seat). I like campaign so far (it's tutorial basically). Basic combat is way way easier than at Elite for example and it's good thing. I can't stand idiotically hard combat at Elite even a simple one.… Expand
  43. Arcatir
    Nov 17, 2013
    3
    There is nothing new in this review except a way of looking at the game and how i expected it to turn out.

    Graphics: I like the outdoor graphics, they aren't pristine and the bad programming doesn't allow it to run smooth on even the toughest pc's. But they are nice to look at. I don't really care for the interior graphics because for one thing this is a space simulation. I really    There is nothing new in this review except a way of looking at the game and how i expected it to turn out.

    Graphics:
    I like the outdoor graphics, they aren't pristine and the bad programming doesn't allow it to run smooth on even the toughest pc's. But they are nice to look at. I don't really care for the interior graphics because for one thing this is a space simulation. I really don't mind that the models look stiff and are basically just copy/pasted versions of one another. The thing that annoys me is that you aren't able to call them while being in space. This is really tedious. But for the graphical part, i have not too much negative to say.

    One ship only policy:
    Granted, after having the immense freedom of virtually piloting/commanding every damn ship you saw in X2 and X3 is a major set back. But the series started as a one-ship only show and thus i wasn't too sad when they announced that we're back to one ship which you can customize heavily. The issue i have here is that this ship is literaly a piece of junk. It looks bad and i feel like buying a sportsbra as soon as i enter that ship. You cannot really change any major structures on your ship except make it look "whole" again. The drones are a nice gimmick, but thats all. I dont want to have the illusion of being able to pilot multiple vessels, when all i can do is fly those little buggers around my big pile of space-trash called "Albion Skunk" ...even the name is bad.

    I'm just extremely disappointed in the way the designed that ship, i can't get over it. They announced it with such a big enthusiasm and "how immersive" it is. Yet all you can do is push one damn button to get onto the bridge (note: the button didn't even work every time i used it).

    Controls:
    X1 X3 had some great ways of using your joystick. Assigning keys, making your own settings and saving them under different names, for every situation a perfect setup. That was perfect. When i wanted to play X3TC on my laptop and didn't have my joystick around, i just switched the settings with a few clicks to play via mouse and keyboard. No such thing here as you can't even get most of the mainstream joysticks to even accept your keybindings. Hell, i have this generic microsoft "X-Box" gamepad for my computer and can't even bind the missile-launch key to any of the buttons on my controller.

    Before i end up rambling i just want to say this: Yes, i had low expectations for this game. I was assuming that it was bugged to a big extent (which has to be expected by an Egosoft game). I assumed that controls and the universe itself may be a bit clunky and not really well programmed. But you know, i was thinking that, aside all these things, it's still playable and enjoyable. But it is not. This has been so far below my already bottom dwelling expecations that i'm completely baffled. Now i'm no programmer but what in the name of Nathan R. Gunne did they do in the last 7 years?

    To be frank: I don't give a rats ass about the story, i play this game to imagine being the ruler of my own sectors. Crush anyone in my path after raising a gigantic empire. Build secret bases, undermine other species. Or just trade, or being a pirate or a damn space-truck driver. This is supposed to be MY universe, where i can do whatever i want. Now i'm totally restricted, left with a lot less freedom.

    Now don't get me wrong, i do believe that they will deliver a fair amount of patches and do a lot to improve it. But to be honest, i paid 45€ so i could play the game on 15th of November, the release day. Not sometime in January or even later, when the game itself is on steam sale for 30 bucks or something like that. They should have done an early access sale if they were on the brink of running out of fundings. But selling a full price game that doesn't even live up the lowest of expectations is an outrage.

    I do really hope Egosoft is improving this broken game asap. I mean they should, because the amount of money they made out of the first three days is huge. Top sales on steam, thats juicy.

    So what i reckon? Don't buy the game now, wait a couple of months and don't waste your money on a broken, unfinished full price game.

    ps: Remember that scene right in the beginning where your lovely co-pilot Yisha almost suffocated because of the damage to her ship and threw her helmet into your ship? The one thing that made me actually chuckle was the fact that even though she had a helmet, her chest was completely unprotected from the vacuum.    … Expand
  44. blackbird191
    Nov 23, 2013
    2
    Ive played all previous X versions. I hoped that x-rebirth is a "rebirth" with better graphics gameplay and so on. But im dissapointed. The whole game is a total mess. Its so badly unfinished, its an Alpha not even a beta.

    There are so many design mistakes and Bugs in this game, i cant even discribe how much went wrong.
  45. Slayerfar
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I have played ALL previous X titles, and I loved them. I love the open universe, where you CAN fly anywhere, thought at great risk, and you CAN do everything, even if it has consequences.

    This pathrtic thing though..This Alpha release...This refuse from Egosoft. It voids all previous work done by them. There is Egosoft pre X-Rebirth, and there is post X-Rebirth. Post X-Rebirth and    I have played ALL previous X titles, and I loved them. I love the open universe, where you CAN fly anywhere, thought at great risk, and you CAN do everything, even if it has consequences.

    This pathrtic thing though..This Alpha release...This refuse from Egosoft. It voids all previous work done by them. There is Egosoft pre X-Rebirth, and there is post X-Rebirth. Post X-Rebirth and Egosoft have placed themself in the dubious category of firms, that sell a title on nothing more than the success of its predecessors. Egosoft have gone Diablo 3 with X-Rebirth, only much, much worse.

    The good:

    The detail in space is fantastic. Space never looked so good. (Thats it. There really isn't anything else to say).

    The bad:

    These details are pointless, as the game bugs down to a 5 FPS slugfest on even the best of machines.

    The FPS lag fest will also have you clawing at your face, as you try to hit infinitely small docking ports....Twice, or perform any of the other myriad of necessary tasks.

    When you manage to dock, you enter a spacestation, 1 of 3 take your pick, that is beyond ugly. Some compare it to Halflife 2. I'm not that generous. Deus Ex 1 and you get the picture. The right angle tunnels are as ugly as a Trabant.

    The only thing more hideous than the spacestations, is its inhabitants. They are positively vile. The "animation", and I use this term VERY loosely, of these androgynic clones is so bad, that they make Scooby Doo, season 1-4, look like Toy Story.

    Then these misfits open their mouthes, and you just wish they hadn't, because the "voice acting", again a broad generalisation on my part, is abysmal. They have 10 lines to greet you, 10 lines to say goodbye, and they're ALL complete crap. A dog barking would be an improvement. Or a howler monkey.

    Then there's the menu's. Ohhh my god the menu's! To call up ship status, you have to press enter, then 2 and then 1. I am not making it up. You need to punch in a 3 keystroke code, just to see your inventory and ship status.

    Storyline mission is broken. Only way around it, is to keep 2 seperate strands of savegames, since if one strand breaks, you may voided hours of gameplay if you do not have a backup.

    Trading is broken and so cumbersome and lethargic, that only chartered accountants would find any joy in it.

    There is no radar.

    And since damage is distributed evenly on your shield, you can't see where the shots are coming from. And since the coclpit window is cluttered with ugly mood graphics, your "viewport" is basically a keyhole.

    As if this didn't make targetting hard enough, you also have to click the target you want to fire on. Aaaaaand there's the 5 FPS again.

    Lasers are rated by range and damage. Thats it. No FPS available, since there is no shot per second. So is the fased Maser better than the Plasma cannon? Who knows?

    There is only 3 or 4 of every ship component for your ship and you are stuck in the hideous rustbucket for ever. There is one ship, and ONLY one ship.

    Add to ALL this, the constant bugs, tedium, crash to desktop and other stuff.

    This is after 14 hours, and plenty of reloads, CTD's and other assorted "fun". The game might have other redeeming factors, but to be fair. Its not the the bugs or gameply thats the problem. It is the entire game. This isn't an unpolished gem. It is a polished turd.

    Avoid this game at all costs, and avoid all Egosoft titles after this one, until you have verified their quality.    … Expand
  46. Add1cted
    Nov 22, 2013
    2
    Im new to the series, so dont have any knowledge of what the previous games were like, but my god this game is crap.

    Huge bugs
    Boring flight and fight mechanics
    Confusing menus
    Pointless tasks (wandering stations, flying around to find "i" points...)
    Terrible tutorial so I have no idea whats going on

    Seriously, £40 for this was an absolute joke.
  47. thorn6
    Nov 18, 2013
    1
    This is really abusive game. If you start the game, you will feel disappointment at some point of game, I predict about 8-9 hours when you got stuck on campaign. This game has a lot of bugs.

    But not bugs kill the game, it's design flaws. Developers taste for game interaction has dropped below any imaginable levels. Usability of interfaces was not tested by some sane persons before    This is really abusive game. If you start the game, you will feel disappointment at some point of game, I predict about 8-9 hours when you got stuck on campaign. This game has a lot of bugs.

    But not bugs kill the game, it's design flaws. Developers taste for game interaction has dropped below any imaginable levels. Usability of interfaces was not tested by some sane persons before launching it into productions. Campaign design is a nightmare after 6-7 hours of gameplay.

    I might add that graphics part seems to be okay, and first 3-4 hours it was really WOW in visual regard. But as soon as I have explored the further It go down the toilet.

    I am sorry, Egosoft, but this game lacks the charms and complexity of all your other games. It seems like a toy compared to X3 series.    … Expand
  48. Tageo
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I guess you have to have a grudging respect for those responsible for this stinky, stinky turd. They saw an opportunity to make profit from a deception and exploited it mercilessly. I mean Christ, they kept it away from [everyone, everywhere] until the last second before release for a reason.

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

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

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

    So they took a dump and ran off to the bank. Some say it can be patched and modded, but you can't polish a turd. You can try, but you'll just end up covered in chit    … Expand
  49. ATEU
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    I registered myself just to be able to score and review this this game, not!
    A failure in every way, nothing makes sense in this broken wannabe game.
  50. WolfR1
    Nov 19, 2013
    2
    I have been waiting for this game since it was announced. I've experienced previous "X" games from Egosoft and muddled through their releases until bugs and problems were resolved to make the games MOSTLY playable.

    But this X Rebirth is an atrocity. It's clearly hobbled by some need for it to assume a console like play style to say nothing of the myriad of show stopping bugs that beset    I have been waiting for this game since it was announced. I've experienced previous "X" games from Egosoft and muddled through their releases until bugs and problems were resolved to make the games MOSTLY playable.

    But this X Rebirth is an atrocity. It's clearly hobbled by some need for it to assume a console like play style to say nothing of the myriad of show stopping bugs that beset the game. Mini games??? Command wheels(instead of keyboard bindings)? A space ship that more than occasionally wants to 'upright' itself??? Just when you think you're getting somewhere or you're starting to have fun...BOOM! You hit that brick wall where your trader won't trade or your comrades (and even your own ships) won't fight leaving you to do all the dirty work (which was supposed to be the most fun). Or worse yet you have to figure out how to execute some task that's not even remotely clear in the UI and there's zero tutorial help. Go read the forums if you want to see the rest of this carcass.

    Something told me to wait until January to buy this game. I've been looking so forward to it that I ignored that and got bit by Egosoft once again.

    End result is that I'm not investing tons of hours into a game that's incredibly broken and released that way despite Egosoft knowing it. They HAD to have known it. I don't believe I can support Egosoft in any further ventures and cannot recommend anyone get X:Rebirth without the expectation of a broken game.    … Expand
  51. Baka-Sensei
    Nov 18, 2013
    2
    That kind of product calls: "Game with Early access", not a "Release". This mess just cant be more than Beta. No ANY optimization, all docks & people models R awfull, hide HALF of the screen, AI doesnt exist police can scan U every 30sec but YR ships can spend till 5-10minutes to do YR command or just hang in space... for ever huge ships just fly through stations T_T shields goesThat kind of product calls: "Game with Early access", not a "Release". This mess just cant be more than Beta. No ANY optimization, all docks & people models R awfull, hide HALF of the screen, AI doesnt exist police can scan U every 30sec but YR ships can spend till 5-10minutes to do YR command or just hang in space... for ever huge ships just fly through stations T_T shields goes down by acceleration BUT collisions gives zero of damage, annoying dialogs with clones same by second pilote, nochance to change a ship or even change the point of camera to get rid of U cant scale or turn Map rly looks like future gadget control panel trying to say:"see U on console", highways idea looks bad feels like journey of cristmas shlt inside the tube, & dont for get ALL this happiness terribly laggs 20-30fps (max) crashes pretty often. 2 houres R pretty enough to see all of that, if U'll be able to start a game on YR PC. To bad, RLY BAD! Going to Dark Side Thx to Egosoft.
    P.S. all that is REALLY SAD cos Egosoft already have all they need: exellent idea of X-Universe, great models of ships&stations (not inside trade system, little army of true fans & alot of more. Creators just need to take all good from X3 (without useless-annoyng-random-imballanced boarding), add new models of ships&stations from Rebirth without copypaste of docks&ppl inside, add possibility of view, large sectors with great views(what they really can) mb alittle more    … Expand
  52. MetalS0ldier
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Buyer beware! (very minor, vague spoilers follow, just thought I'd mention that to those who are.. picky.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    And I'm afraid no amount of patching is going to erase that stink, since the flaws are on a fundamental, conceptual level.    … Expand
  53. Scarr
    Nov 19, 2013
    1
    It has been a LONG time since I had to manually edit save game files just to proceed in a computer game. X Rebirth required me to edit my save game files numerous times on the first day. Broken scripts, missing game elements, unresponsive AI, and other random issues helped me rate this game very low.

    The graphics of space and the ships, stations and weapons are nicely done. The    It has been a LONG time since I had to manually edit save game files just to proceed in a computer game. X Rebirth required me to edit my save game files numerous times on the first day. Broken scripts, missing game elements, unresponsive AI, and other random issues helped me rate this game very low.

    The graphics of space and the ships, stations and weapons are nicely done. The characters in the game look like something from 2003.

    The voice acting is horrid, the actors were obviously recorded in different studios. Some actors sound like they are talking from inside a garbage can, while others sound like they are in an auditorium or in a sound proof box. The poor voice over work breaks the immersion of the moment.

    I had to keep the Steam Group Chat open while playing, because I would come across bugs so often. I would ask if anyone help had the same issue and execute their fix or go search the forum for a work around. I have played game in the past, perhaps a decade or so ago where something would go wrong and a quick savegame edit fix solved the problem. When that did happen, it would be a ONE time thing.... with Rebirth, I found myself editing my save.xml file several times a day... really? If I had not the savvy to do this, then the game would just ended already.

    I am done with this game, I may come back in a year or so and see if the developers can fix it and maybe the modding community can give it some life. Overall, this is a pile of cold crap... it's not even steaming.    … Expand
  54. rodenal
    Nov 20, 2013
    2
    To get my overall opinion out of the way, this is an exceptionally poor attempt by egosoft.

    I'm a fan of the x series of games in general but occasionally find them a bit too deep and meaningful, you can't just jump and be up and running in a couple of hours. Rebirth seems like it was designed to be that kind of title very suspiciously so) however falls flat on its face trying to    To get my overall opinion out of the way, this is an exceptionally poor attempt by egosoft.

    I'm a fan of the x series of games in general but occasionally find them a bit too deep and meaningful, you can't just jump and be up and running in a couple of hours. Rebirth seems like it was designed to be that kind of title very suspiciously so) however falls flat on its face trying to implement it.

    Gone are the many, many different systems, gone are the many, many hard to find but ultimately satisfying to get right commands, gone is the ability to fly different ships. What do you gain? An extremely poorly voiced and annoying co pilot, a single ship with very limited upgrade potential, very little control over anything else you own, game breaking bugs even in the tutorial section how can they get this wrong), very poor performance on a relatively high spec machine, about 3 different station interiors to explore....with about 5 people to talk to lots of other annoyances.

    They've pretty much manages to take everything that was attractive about the previous games and either remove or ruin it. Not sure what the development plan was is or if there was a major shift that we dont know about causing the issues but 7years to produce an unfinished game charged out at £40 a time is nothing short of scandalous.

    New players will be baffled as of to why they should persevere, fans of the series will be disgusted with the changes. No amount of patching will fix this game.    … Expand
  55. Dvorhagen
    Nov 24, 2013
    2
    I know Egosoft has a long history of releasing buggy, nigh-unplayable games and then fixing them within months, and I'm sure that will happen (to some extent) with X3-Rebirth. I could live with waiting for the game to be patched, if it weren't so fundamentally lobotomized. You only have one ship (named permanently "The Albion Skunk"...so have fun with that), upgrades and weapons haveI know Egosoft has a long history of releasing buggy, nigh-unplayable games and then fixing them within months, and I'm sure that will happen (to some extent) with X3-Rebirth. I could live with waiting for the game to be patched, if it weren't so fundamentally lobotomized. You only have one ship (named permanently "The Albion Skunk"...so have fun with that), upgrades and weapons have been slashed to a fraction of X3's, automated trading has apparently been removed, jumpdrives are (as far as I can tell) gone..the list goes on, and on, and on. And what did they trade all this stuff for? Nothing. There is nothing better about this game than any of its predecessors (alright, some of the visuals are nice too bad the framerate is terrible, even with my very-well-tricked-out machine). I was excited about being able to leave your ship, but they didn't even do that right all you do is wander around identical space stations collecting items (which you're inexplicably allowed to just steal from crates and lockers with impunity), and talking to static, badly modeled, thoroughly uninteresting NPCs. It's actually more tedious and certainly more time consuming than just being able to interact with people via menus, ala X3. I really wish I could get my money back (thanks, Steam!) I have honestly never regretted buying a game more. This, folks, is what you get when you purchase a game sight-unseen! Seriously, it was stupid of me I usually don't buy games without reading several reviews first. The best thing I can say about X-Rebirth: at least it taught me never to make that mistake again.… Expand
  56. urpoturpo
    Jan 13, 2014
    0
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    Uhh. Just don't. Do not. Stay away.
    ........................You've been warned.
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  57. Haddy
    Nov 22, 2013
    2
    I'm not going to rehash all that is wrong with this game. My advice, wait a year then take a look. It might, just might be worth ones time with patches and mods. Right now, it's not worth my time. There are far superior games to be played at the moment!
  58. Gallient
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    As everyone else is saying this is a failed console game ported to the PC to scam a quick buck off unwary consumers. If you are a fan of the X games then stay away from this, it is an X game in little more than name. Return policies have made this kind of scam practice of selling an unfinished, falsely marketed game absolutely viable and boy does egosoft take advantage of that. I simplyAs everyone else is saying this is a failed console game ported to the PC to scam a quick buck off unwary consumers. If you are a fan of the X games then stay away from this, it is an X game in little more than name. Return policies have made this kind of scam practice of selling an unfinished, falsely marketed game absolutely viable and boy does egosoft take advantage of that. I simply cannot justify any higher than a 0 rating from a clear scam, even if they manage to make it playable with patches it will in no way change the fact that they perpetuated a complete lie to sell pre-orders to their now former fan base.… Expand
  59. Dalruin
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I pre-purchased this game much to my chagrin. It has delivered on almost nothing promised. I despise games that take steps backwards. If its predecessor had the features, I believe there is no reason for a game not to have a feature, or an enhanced version of, or better feature. that being said, here are the reasons for my abyssmal rating:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    The game does not deserve to be bought until it's price is cut in half and fixed.
    One of the worst launches in the gaming history for a game of this scale.    … Expand
  62. dark0z
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Full of bugs, awful graphics, awful textures, awful animations, awful menus, awful gameplay, awful trading, awful AI, truly awful game.
    save your money for another game, or burn it.
  63. dudeburger
    Nov 19, 2013
    0
    It feels like a PS2 port to PC! Rubbish textures, gameplay, voice acting, models, fps...... so much is BAD about this game. Trying to get refund from steam who shamelessly promoted it as a 'triple A' title at full price!
  64. Chatterly
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    What a horrible mess. A better name would have been X Afterbirth. The campaign is unplayable, trading is bugged, and simple tasks are obtuse and often bugged. Even saving results in CTD. There are minigames for travel and talking to people that remind me of farmville, amazingly they work. There's also a minigame where you bounce from save to save, hoping to find one where the game hasn'tWhat a horrible mess. A better name would have been X Afterbirth. The campaign is unplayable, trading is bugged, and simple tasks are obtuse and often bugged. Even saving results in CTD. There are minigames for travel and talking to people that remind me of farmville, amazingly they work. There's also a minigame where you bounce from save to save, hoping to find one where the game hasn't inexplicably removed a vital game resource from the universe. The ASI (Artificially Stupid Intelligence) makes decisions based on an inverse Maslovian hierarchy while the NPC models look pulled out of the design documents for The Ring as "Too creepy." Rather than buy this game, send the money to your local crack dealer and ask him to beat you like one of his delinquent customers. You'll enjoy it more. And hey, maybe get some meth in the process.… Expand
  65. derchinese
    Dec 9, 2013
    2
    absolute i bought a full priced game and i get a beta finished game f**k you ego-soft. it is dissappointing to see a cpmpany who made false promisses and sells as most innovativ space game. sad very sad
  66. cafebabe
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Please note: There are many postive reviews from users who have only reviewed this game. Those are subject of Astroturfing! Egosoft Deep Silver know that they released s*** and now they pay for fake ratings!

    I made a mistake by buying this game. The game is an unstable console port. It crashes repeatedly. The graphics are outdated (DX9!) and I get frame drops many times on my top-notch    Please note: There are many postive reviews from users who have only reviewed this game. Those are subject of Astroturfing! Egosoft Deep Silver know that they released s*** and now they pay for fake ratings!

    I made a mistake by buying this game. The game is an unstable console port. It crashes repeatedly. The graphics are outdated (DX9!) and I get frame drops many times on my top-notch rig. There is upscaling for high resolutions. The gameplay is a joke. The menu system is really bad. A 10-year old can do a better UI and interaction design. For instance, the objects menu (ships & station parts) is organized as a tree but has a flat table. There is a bug where I can't even launch this ugly and useless sector/system map anymore. Space combat is annoying. Why do I have to maneuver in space to target enemies? Why not use a turret instead and let the player focus on alignment, weapons and systems management? Everytime you scan something, your co-pilot says the same over and over again as well as the pilots of the scanned targets. You can walk on stations. But that's just boring. There's nothing more to do than to open containers for loot and to interact with badly animated personnel who all look and sound the same. And who had that idea of lanes on the highway?! That looks interesting the first time you use them. But then, it gets just annoying. There is no external ship view anymore. And why does the game get a 3D but no freelook. This game feels completely unfinished. It has features that are plain stupid. This "game" requires an overhaul before I touch it again. I hope it does not take another 7 years.    … Expand
  67. Malcoth
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Played 20 hours. This is far, far from the earlier X games in about all things. It's a totally different style of game (you fly only and always your starter ship, although you may upgrade it slightly). Controls and interface are extremely 'dumbed-down' console style, with all the heavy trade offs you pay for big screen interfaces and the possibility to cram as much complexity as you canPlayed 20 hours. This is far, far from the earlier X games in about all things. It's a totally different style of game (you fly only and always your starter ship, although you may upgrade it slightly). Controls and interface are extremely 'dumbed-down' console style, with all the heavy trade offs you pay for big screen interfaces and the possibility to cram as much complexity as you can into a console-style controller (which, of course, isn't a lot compared to earlier X games.
    Where the earlier X games were complex, but transparent and straightforward in their menus, gameplay, general interface etc., this one is oversimplified, counterintuitive, aimless and unrewarding. Graphics are nothing to write home about (although not totally yesterdays tech), some textures are truly bad, and character animation is... sad.
    The removal of the jump gates and clear division into square sectors of older X titles is nice, but without the necessary enhanced abilities of the map system (on the contrary, it's a load of rubbish compared to the former X maps) it kills every and all means to relate to the scope and the relative position of stuff. Planning a route yourself instead of stupidly following the autopilot is somewhere between agonizing and impossible.
    The 'highway' tunnels only give you good speed if you can trail other traffic but often there is no npc traffic to trail, meaning 5 minutes of pure boredom along the tube. Five play-minutes of totally wasted time.
    Using yellow highway tubes in a region of a yellow nebula, where large parts of the background are replaced by a giant yellow-orange-red star means half the time you have no way to even see the damn things.
    There are no targeting keys at all and the small edge-of-screen icons are not only small and impossible to see all at one glance, they're not even on the edge of the screen but along the edge of your window. That means you have to search along the jagged edges of your equipment and hope to spot something and vaguely approximate which direction this means. Even then you have neither radar nor any other way to know which icon is how far away, meaning it can be difficult to even determine which of those ten icons is firing at you and which nine others are way out of weapons range. Don't even think about trying to always attack the nearest enemy on an escort, just kill them like you get them on screen and double back frequently.

    It's not totally unenjoyable, you can see glimmers of potential, but they are so stomped by the terrible execution that no amount of patching will solve the basic gameplay problems.

    Add to sad sorry state of affairs the fact that the whole game is supremely buggy, it features among others:
    -random crashes
    -sudden animation failures (which mean no more sliding out of holo consoles, which makes lots of stuff uncontrollable because you lack the interface to do so)
    -horribly bad pathfinding by npc ships you escort through station complexes (escort: 15 min, parking afterward before you get paid: 45 min)
    -frequent graphic glitches

    This is a really really sad end to a great, great series of games. Based on the deliberate design direction they took with this game, I doubt we will ever again see an X game fit for more than the trash can. In any case, this game would not have been worth more than maybe 2 to 5 dollars in a bargain bin sale, not the hefty sum they took for the CE. Probably the last preorder I bought, certainly the last ever I buy from egosoft.    … Expand
  68. MechMK1
    Dec 10, 2013
    0
    This is simply the most horrible part of the X series ever. It's like they thought "What are the good things about the X series? Why do our customers love our games?" and changed exactly that.

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

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

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

    All in all, I can not even discribe how disappointed I was of all the things I had hoped for. I was jumping up and down like a crazy kid when I heard of a new X title and got it as soon as it was on steam. Now I wish I wouldn't.    … Expand
  69. ChaosMatrix
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I find it interesting how other reviewers who give this game good reviews claim to have been able to play it. When the game for the most part its almost completely unplayable. Long story short, this game is nowhere near a complete product and should not had attempted to deceive people into buying whats pretty much an beta version at best.
  70. SHy
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    1 ship, no optimization, vanilla characters, a lot of bugs, everything slows, version for pc??? give me a break if it not for PC DO NOT sell it like pc version!!! waited so long, so afraid of what will be and that's so but so much that it is better to play x3, DO NOT BUY IT!!! wanted to give a 3, but 3 has to be earned, even 1 a lot, because the price of 50
  71. nabla
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    This game is awful. It is so terrible, I cannot express in words. I really wanted to like this game, but it is simply impossible. NPC modelling and animation from hell (or at least from somewhere before 1998). This is really f*cking ridiculous. And wtf did they think when designing the UI? Computers have mouse and keyboard, and they give us a circular menu that I can't even read on aThis game is awful. It is so terrible, I cannot express in words. I really wanted to like this game, but it is simply impossible. NPC modelling and animation from hell (or at least from somewhere before 1998). This is really f*cking ridiculous. And wtf did they think when designing the UI? Computers have mouse and keyboard, and they give us a circular menu that I can't even read on a screen resolution of 1600x1200 because the text is so tiny? Not to mention the names of the NPC which are even harder to read. Come on, you can't be serious??!!… Expand
  72. HaVoK023
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    Bad game Egosoft. {{{ALERT IF YOU ARE X3 X3TC FAN AVOID THIS ONE.}}}

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

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

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

    All I will say is, please please please stay the hell away from this title, I can not express how bad it is. Its the worst game i have ever played in my 22 years of gaming.    … Expand
  75. ErnieTheMighty
    Nov 20, 2013
    0
    A total disappointment. I've been waiting for this release for a years, and they bring me this non-sense. The very first release is glitched out, and the developers promise to come up with an update, which comes only a day after.
    Game play-wise, almost nothing has improved in the game. It's all the same, just a little bit more complex. I'd give you a +1 for that, but you've already    A total disappointment. I've been waiting for this release for a years, and they bring me this non-sense. The very first release is glitched out, and the developers promise to come up with an update, which comes only a day after.
    Game play-wise, almost nothing has improved in the game. It's all the same, just a little bit more complex. I'd give you a +1 for that, but you've already drained all my nerves from the first day of publishing.    … Expand
  76. toomanygames
    Nov 23, 2013
    0
    Simply put the worst title I've purchased in over 25 years of gaming.

    The whole release seems to have been very cloak and dagger, I can only assume they knew the kind of reception it would receive. Don't get me wrong this may end up being an excellent title after months of TLC but right now it's actual value is about a tenth of the asking price. The sad part is I think Egosoft have    Simply put the worst title I've purchased in over 25 years of gaming.

    The whole release seems to have been very cloak and dagger, I can only assume they knew the kind of reception it would receive.

    Don't get me wrong this may end up being an excellent title after months of TLC but right now it's actual value is about a tenth of the asking price. The sad part is I think Egosoft have inadvertently sold their integrity many of the hard core fans have purchased this title based on Egosofts reputation and the previous titles in the series. I honestly can't see them being afforded that level of trust with their next product.

    In summary if you buy this right now you're likely to be joining an ever growing group of people petitioning for a refund.    … Expand
  77. Shedding
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    This game is absolute garbage. I wanted to like it. I would describe the problems it has, but there are just too many. I've asked steam for a refund, I got a canned response denial. I sent them a second message and I hope they issue that charge back (or steam credit)
  78. Gromek
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    This game is a total disappointment for me. It is an unbelievable step back from X series which was until now a great game. Never will spend a dime on Egosoft product again
  79. JCM-disappointe
    Jan 3, 2014
    0
    Unplayable. My first computer game (I am 67) is a huge disappointment following a strong recommendation by a friend. The game needs to have much work done on it.....maybe by release .100 it will work. Very poor. No more EGO SOFT products for me.
  80. robertaswanson
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    X rebirth: alpha version 0.02

    Thats how game should be called now. Although this game is gorgeus in its way, it's broken on the other hand. It feels like a very bad console port -BAD performance -ugly textures -frequent crashes -boring, dumbed gameplay -no joystick support? WHAT? It's not even close to the X series too. Don't buy. Save money and your nerves. Until they get    X rebirth: alpha version 0.02

    Thats how game should be called now.
    Although this game is gorgeus in its way, it's broken on the other hand.

    It feels like a very bad console port
    -BAD performance
    -ugly textures
    -frequent crashes
    -boring, dumbed gameplay
    -no joystick support? WHAT?
    It's not even close to the X series too.

    Don't buy. Save money and your nerves. Until they get out of beta.    … Expand
  81. ekatonpl
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    This game is utterly horrible bugs, triviality, I'm glad I watched my friend play it and didn't have to waste 50 euros on something like this. Also I find it really bad that they made this game more console-player than PC-player friendly. I know that consoles get more and more popular but still... not a good thing to do at all.
  82. michaelyak
    Nov 22, 2013
    0
    I've lowered my score to 1 for the following reasons:

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

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

    In closing: I'm not a hater just trying to be honest. Save your money..    … Expand
  83. ValValheru
    Nov 18, 2013
    1
    I'm very disapointed. I'm huge fan of X series. Despite all bugs which make the game unplayable, this is not X game. Everything is flattened and simplified. Thousands of options and commands it is something I loved in X games. Now you even don't have precise sector map not to mention targeting system.
    I'm returning to X 3 Albion Prelude. Don't waste yours cash on something like this    I'm very disapointed. I'm huge fan of X series. Despite all bugs which make the game unplayable, this is not X game. Everything is flattened and simplified. Thousands of options and commands it is something I loved in X games. Now you even don't have precise sector map not to mention targeting system.
    I'm returning to X 3 Albion Prelude. Don't waste yours cash on something like this (unless you have never had contact with real X series games).    … Expand
  84. TrueDeva
    Nov 19, 2013
    2
    Every game ever made has two very important simple rule: The basic controls have to feel natural. The interface do not stand between me and the game. While X-Rebirth is simulator, I can understand it just simply cannot be the case with this level of complex mechanics, but that is hardly an excuse for an unplayable game. It has some redeeming points. The AI is good, the drone handling isEvery game ever made has two very important simple rule: The basic controls have to feel natural. The interface do not stand between me and the game. While X-Rebirth is simulator, I can understand it just simply cannot be the case with this level of complex mechanics, but that is hardly an excuse for an unplayable game. It has some redeeming points. The AI is good, the drone handling is fine invention, less fatal crashes with other ships, and stations, and they get rid of the dangerous jumpgates, so instead they put in a highway mechanics. Many things flow better now. Still, there soo many bad design choices, with placeholder npc graphics and animations, horribly bad map system (4 layer map. Really now? 1 layer was complex enough for me like in the old days), no time acceleration for otherwise highly time consuming operations like full time trading, no (!repeatable!) in-depth tutorial for the new unintuitive interface, unless you read the 80 page manual and the list goes on and on... The game could be wonderful, but if basics feel bad no one wants to discover the very depth of your game EGOSOFT.… Expand
  85. Danceswithsheep
    Dec 9, 2013
    0
    Another nail in the coffin of Space Sims. If Elite dangerous and Star Citizen make the same stumbling mistakes as this achingly poorly implemented pos then that could kill the genre stone dead. Egosoft promised a lot and delivered little that was working or resembling their boasts, the trade system is broken, the combat is broken, the commands are broken..get my drift?
  86. clone147
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    Most bugged game ever played by me, every patch restore something and broke something other. Now it's not playable at all (no trade ships are frozen, even if i started game once again and again)
  87. Cenzor
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    This game isn't ready for release. 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.
  88. Foam
    Mar 20, 2014
    1
    "Simply Trash"
    That statement best describes X-Rebirth. Long story short: They took most features from the previous games that fans loved, gutted them, and tried to automate or simplify everything in a catastrophic mess. Some 10/10 reviews on here say it's only a vocal minority that dislike the game. This is a load of **** as if you check the Steamgraph data on it, you'll find that    "Simply Trash"
    That statement best describes X-Rebirth. Long story short: They took most features from the previous games that fans loved, gutted them, and tried to automate or simplify everything in a catastrophic mess. Some 10/10 reviews on here say it's only a vocal minority that dislike the game. This is a load of **** as if you check the Steamgraph data on it, you'll find that literally 0 people have played the game for months. If Rebirth was so great as these reviewers say, then people would still be plugging hundreds of hours into it.    … Expand
  89. Zahnhans
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    At first I wasn't able to launch the game properly.
    After I found a fix for that at steam forum, I finally started my journey to the new X universe,
    just to be exposed to this giant collection of bugs and poor performance.

    This game doesn't help the space genre at all.
  90. Ottomic
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    Steam shows my game time as 4 hours. I must have advanced 20 minutes at most on the campaign. The other 3 hours and 40 minutes have been spent trying to make the game playable with a joystick, and failing.
    - Awful human models.
    - Terrible textures - Unbindable controls - Joystick support sketchy at best (can't configure my HOTAS X) - Stupid in-station segments. - Obnoxious menu    Steam shows my game time as 4 hours. I must have advanced 20 minutes at most on the campaign. The other 3 hours and 40 minutes have been spent trying to make the game playable with a joystick, and failing.
    - Awful human models.
    - Terrible textures
    - Unbindable controls
    - Joystick support sketchy at best (can't configure my HOTAS X)
    - Stupid in-station segments.
    - Obnoxious menu system.
    - One flyable ship.
    - No mouselook in no external views.
    - Objects in space are static. No more 'match speed'.
    - Shaders look terrible.
    - Keyboard control over-sensitive.
    - Game-breaking bugs.

    Those are a lot of deal-breakers. Unlike X3, it is not an incomplete game with gaps the community can fill in. It is a game full of WRONG design choices that will require an amount of dedication from the community unseen of this side of MERP to fix. It's cool that you have an excellent modding community Egosoft, but it looks like it'd have been better for you to just straight outsource them during development.

    I would give this game a 4, because despite it being broken and unpleasant to the point of unplayability (especially when compared to the rest of the saga) it's got some interesting ideas and the developer has been pretty honest up until Rebirth, but Egosoft's attitude of what looks like not only over-optimistic previews, but also little pre-release information, what 3 days later looks like a full-on review embargo until they have some stuff sorted out, and not even preparing their forum from what they knew would be an onsaught of unsatisfied customers earns it a 3.

    X: Rebirth is a 3/10 game. This is shameful.

    DO NOT BUY until some of the more glaring stuff has been fixed. If that.    … Expand
  91. Mogz909
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Well I had waited for many many years for the resurrection of the X series. I had poured many many hours into X3:TC and could not wait for X:Rebirth so I pre-ordered. It pre-installed fine without issue and thats where the good things ended...

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

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

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

    I could go on but I feel I am wasting my time. Maybe in 6mths to a year this game maybe working but its doubtful and I suspect the X community will have to fix all the things that Egosoft broke.    … Expand
  92. JerryYeh
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    Expecting Freelancer, instead got Duke Nukem in Space

    Okay, if anyone who hates Duke Nukem Forever or Aliens Colonial Marine, you can understand the feeling I have with X-Rebirth. I was expecting a AAA experience with a easier learning curve, which is what's been keeping me from getting into the X series in the past, instead I got a half-baked game with crappy performance issue, ugly    Expecting Freelancer, instead got Duke Nukem in Space

    Okay, if anyone who hates Duke Nukem Forever or Aliens Colonial Marine, you can understand the feeling I have with X-Rebirth. I was expecting a AAA experience with a easier learning curve, which is what's been keeping me from getting into the X series in the past, instead I got a half-baked game with crappy performance issue, ugly textures and low poly character model.

    I mean I can point you to various game from LAST-GEN has better aesthetic than this game, the Character Models for example What is this? Does it has less polygon than a teapot? How could it possibly looks so ugly anyway? And even if you bump all the effects to maximum it still looks like crap. The only good looking thing is SPACE, and SHIPS (from a distance.).Now the performance is horrendous as well, I can run Battlefield 4, Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 with medium heigh settings at 30~40 fps, for this game I can't get 30 fps even if I put all the settings to lowest level. It's obvious this game is rushed or poorly designed.

    All the above mention is enough to stop me from playing, I'm not someone who judge a game SOLELY by it's graphics, but all these crap breaks the immersion. When a game with so much promise ended up like this.... it's just a total let down and unacceptable.    … Expand
  93. Louskrad
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    I'm writing this review with 1.12 patch. I am sad to say that this game is broken, full of bugs; so much so that you can't even continue the main storyline if you're not lucky enough.

    What is more disturbing is the flaws in game design. Map systems don't make sense, menus and UI need serious revamps, etc. I'll provide a pro-con list below, but make sure you check steam forums before    I'm writing this review with 1.12 patch. I am sad to say that this game is broken, full of bugs; so much so that you can't even continue the main storyline if you're not lucky enough.

    What is more disturbing is the flaws in game design. Map systems don't make sense, menus and UI need serious revamps, etc. I'll provide a pro-con list below, but make sure you check steam forums before buying, where you'll see every single forum thread about disappointment.

    Cons:
    - Extremely bad performance. The game seems not tested and even the high end PCs don't get good graphic performance. 5-10 FPS in some areas.
    - Bugs "Oh my deus, it's full of st.." ehem, "bugs."
    - Terrible UI.
    - Keyboard shortcuts (previously the heart of X games) missing and not possible to configure.
    - ONE ship. Yes, you can ride just one don't think you'll sit in the bridge of your destroyer.
    - No direct trade: gone are the days that you can dock a station and trade directly. You need to have a buggy AI do it for you. (Not kidding, you need to edit your savegame in an editor to correct AI problems most of the time you trade)
    - Awful NPC graphics and not the best voice acting.
    - Voice acting not finished in some languages.
    - No autopilot.
    - Stations can be built on pre-determined spots.
    - In short: even if the game is fully debugged in a series of future patches, this is not the X-Universe game you're looking for.

    Pros:
    - The new travel system (higways) seem kind of fun.
    - potential. since the game is open to modding, it is possible for the community to fix this game up at some point.    … Expand
  94. MadVandal
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    After over 20 hours of play I can pretty much sum this up as a huge letdown. I can live with poor looking interiors, NPCs, dialog, etc.. but the core components of what made an X game have been stripped down or removed.

    X has always been a deeply complex game of economic space trading an empire building/management. That is gone, along with a number of other basic features. No gravidar    After over 20 hours of play I can pretty much sum this up as a huge letdown. I can live with poor looking interiors, NPCs, dialog, etc.. but the core components of what made an X game have been stripped down or removed.

    X has always been a deeply complex game of economic space trading an empire building/management. That is gone, along with a number of other basic features. No gravidar (radar), no targeting/cycling system, no move to position/stop/attack commands to ship, no naming ships, no way to cancel pending trade orders, no way to stop ships from following you, no autopilot, no jump drive, no flying other ships, no universal traders, no parking of large ships at stations. The list goes on an on.

    The incredible array of ships in X3, consisting of dozens of different sizes and designs, weapon types and load-out options, software components (wares), upgrades, etc. are all gone in Rebirth. Rebirth gives you only a small handful of preset ship types, with only a couple of options. The incredible array of factories and stations that made all kinds different intermediate and end products has been cut down to a third of before. Placement and design of complex factories is gone, Rebirth only allows building of pre-made designs at fixed locations. The entire economic flow of goods appears to be gone...replaced with simplified artificial system.

    In terms of the universe, while X3 did have issues with large areas of space the was sometimes boring to navigate, the alternative in Rebirth isn't worth the trade off. Sectors have been reduced to 3-6 packed "zones" connected by magical highways (no real technical explanation for how humans pull these off). Unlike X3 where non-civilian ships flew with a destination and purpose, the ships in Rebirth are mostly eye-candy phantoms. Highway travel is an annoying and unnecessary mini-game with an engine sound effect so jarringly loud I end up just not bothering with the speed boosting mini-game to avoid the awful sound.

    In X3 you simply hit one key and get a view of all property, where is was, and what it was doing. Another key would give you a view of your credits and reputation. Those are gone, replaced by an ugly drill-though UI screen with a font 3-4x larger than needed that takes numerous key presses or clicks. It is impossible to play Rebirth using only the keyboard like in the past, you have to awkwardly switch back and forth between keyboard and mouse while in battle just to target ships or dock.

    The ship pathing AI, a function many fans asked for more polish after X3, is a absolutely terrible. Fighter ships attacking stations or large ships will ram into them and get stuck trying to turn around. Ships get caught in narrow spaces of large ship hangers or parts of stations bouncing back and forth between solid points. In past X games the act of flying a small ship into the solid wall of a station is almost certain death, as it should be. In Rebirth collision damage has been almost entirely removed to compensate for the poor AI. Collisions between capital ships and stations has been disabled allowing capital ships to actually fly through stations and each other. This opens an awful exploit where you can pilot you ship into the hanger bay of a capital ship and sit there safe from harm firing and damaging it underneath its shields, while on the outside fighters attempting to shoot you end up pound the large ship with friendly fire.

    There is speculation and some evidence that an attempt was made the bring Rebirth to the Xbox and something went wrong along the way. The communication/radial menu, and ship command UI appear to be three separate designs stitched together and don't flow well, a byproduct seen before when software development projects take drastic changes of design direction. In term of immersion and visual the game is an amalgam of ideas borrowed from Mass Effect, Blade Runner, and parts of past X games with mixed results. Topping all of this off are numerous game breaking bugs that clearly indicate that the final build was not tested. Many game play bugs are far too obvious to have been missed by testing. There are several ways to cause the campaign to get hung up with no notice. For example, if you loose a special one of a kind constructor ship given to you in the campaign it makes it impossible to a perform a building task given hours later bring the entire campaign to a halt with no warning or notice.

    Once of the biggest aspects of X3 was the many (often hundreds) of hours of sandbox style play and the use of mods. With Rebirth, once the campaign is complete, assuming you make it that far, there appears to little else to do with the game with so much stripped out.

    Fans waited seven long years for this and somewhere under all this mess may be a salvage X game engine, if and how long it might take to fix remains to be seen.    … Expand
  95. Guilherme_PoA
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    This game is garbage...a lot of bugs...you can't finish missions...random crashes to the desktop...I can't even believe egosoft felt down so low on quality...their other games were buggy...but playable...none of them was like this...this game is really crap...it blow away all gaming experience with bad cut scenes, terrible voicing actors, extreme performance issues...terrible stations andThis game is garbage...a lot of bugs...you can't finish missions...random crashes to the desktop...I can't even believe egosoft felt down so low on quality...their other games were buggy...but playable...none of them was like this...this game is really crap...it blow away all gaming experience with bad cut scenes, terrible voicing actors, extreme performance issues...terrible stations and NPCs texture, ridiculous bugs on IA, economy, trading and overall missions...don't buy it, unless you wanna pay to be a alpha tester, if you're masochist or if you enjoy headaches.… Expand
  96. Gtsy
    Nov 20, 2013
    2
    Some aspects of the game are nice. Large space stations, huge freighters and a travelling system (which is not perfect, but better than boring jump gates) are ok.

    The is a huge step down. In AP with its minimalistic hud you actually felt the space, it was very immersive, but now i feel like i'm in catterpillar tractor or something. Another sad thing is that there is only one ship to    Some aspects of the game are nice. Large space stations, huge freighters and a travelling system (which is not perfect, but better than boring jump gates) are ok.

    The is a huge step down. In AP with its minimalistic hud you actually felt the space, it was very immersive, but now i feel like i'm in catterpillar tractor or something. Another sad thing is that there is only one ship to pilot now. In AP you could go and get fast Boron discoverer and or a big freighter. I miss this.

    Unfortunately the commercials of X Rebirth featured only the bright sides of the game. They didn't include incredibly boring, lame-textured space station corridors (which is generally not a bad idea), and so (can't find appropriate words) awful NPCs. These badly-textured robots is a huge game breaker. I really don't want to see them, to talk to them or interact in any way. They are just creepy! Unfortunately one of these space monsters lives in my even during free game. What's wrong with her clothes? What is this hole in the chest area of her costume for? I can only speculate that this is a trick to drive the look from her face. I'd add 2 points just for a feature of ejecting this monster queen from my ship.

    So, for the space: +2, -8 for everything else.    … Expand
  97. yoyolll
    Nov 29, 2013
    0
    Nearly at patch 1.18 and game still doesn't work. Forget about whether or not the game is "good", because sooner or later you will run into a game crippling bug and have to restart. Example: buying energy cells is the 6th or 7th step of the tutorial, and if it so happens that there is another ship at the only trading dock that you can use for this step, it's game over. Create a new gameNearly at patch 1.18 and game still doesn't work. Forget about whether or not the game is "good", because sooner or later you will run into a game crippling bug and have to restart. Example: buying energy cells is the 6th or 7th step of the tutorial, and if it so happens that there is another ship at the only trading dock that you can use for this step, it's game over. Create a new game and if you get lucky this time the dock will be empty. How can they charge people $50 for a game that straight up doesn't work?… Expand
  98. Cappy
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I actually made an account just to write a review for this game. Utter crap.

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

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

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

    **** liars of a company. There are MULTIPLE missions that you are also not able to complete in the campaign.    … Expand
  99. Specknacken
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    I am sick of companies releasing unfinished and overpriced games. Compared to previous X releases, I wonder what made them develop this absolutely broken game?
    There's almost no interaction with your owned ships, the AI is non existent and don't even bother visit more than one station.
    They al look exactly the same. Which also complies to the NPC's. They have about the same quality    I am sick of companies releasing unfinished and overpriced games. Compared to previous X releases, I wonder what made them develop this absolutely broken game?
    There's almost no interaction with your owned ships, the AI is non existent and don't even bother visit more than one station.
    They al look exactly the same. Which also complies to the NPC's. They have about the same quality from... I don't know. Jedi Knight maybe? Lizard eyed, bald, creepy freaks...
    There were literally THOUSANDS of posts from people reporting game-breaking bugs and ranting about missing features in the first two days alone.
    Whoever rates this a 10/10 points must be completely delusional, or working for the company that's responsible for this messy game.
    If you are thinking about buying this game, do yourself a favour and take a closer look at it half a year from now. Then maybe the bugs will be wiped out, although because of the mass of those, I heavily doubt it.    … Expand
  100. ericdn
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Stay away friends. This game is trash on trash. 50 bucks is a lot of money, but I am even more disappointed by the fact I have been looking forward to this trash for 6 months. Trash trash trash!
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  1. IGN Italia
    Feb 18, 2014
    40
    Rebirth lacks inspiration, purpose, good ideas. It's riddled with bugs and, even when it seems to work, it manages to be dull. There isn't any true reason to play it.
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  2. CD-Action
    Feb 10, 2014
    30
    Instead of giving the series a new life the developers buried it and the patches are a classic case of ‘too little, too late’. There’s a lot of things you can forgive this game but not the fact that it’s boring. [02/2014, p.58]
  3. PC Gamer
    Jan 31, 2014
    39
    X misses the spot. The occasional bit of spectacle can't save this boring, broken and charmless space simulation. [March 2014, p.60]
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