X Rebirth

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1310 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 924 out of 1310
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  1. Raresh
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    This game is a MASSIVE failure. And to people saying "wait for patch" all i have to say is f**k you! A game released in this state shouldn't even be given out for free. From the interface, to the performance this game sucks at what it does. Also the flying to 100 different docking places on one station and walking through the couple of overused boring environment and the most UGLY NPC's iThis game is a MASSIVE failure. And to people saying "wait for patch" all i have to say is f**k you! A game released in this state shouldn't even be given out for free. From the interface, to the performance this game sucks at what it does. Also the flying to 100 different docking places on one station and walking through the couple of overused boring environment and the most UGLY NPC's i have EVER seen in 14 years of gaming. Seriously, how do you make NPC's so bloody ugly? You have to TRY to do so. Everyone looks like their 80 years old. If a NPC has something on his head, guess who turns first? The head, or the accessory he has on it's head? Also if i have to go to a station then come back to the previous station i have to go through the whole system to go back to it.

    Seriously if you consider to get a good space sim, get X3 AP or TC. Save yourself some money and frustration. I also love these people that give the game 10-8 rating saying that "well it's not good but give it some time"...no just no. If you don't feel like saying something better than that, don't.    … Expand
  2. Warlord8
    Nov 27, 2013
    2
    The game is a mess. Full of bugs. After the initial patches the game has improved but it is not what I've paid 50 for. I wanted to play a single player game with trading and single player possibilities, but what I've find is a game full of problems.

    I just hope they are going to fix it, because the game is interesting... it's only messy, and buggy.
  3. echeg
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Not buy it.

    This is not a game X series. this is a completely new and different game.
    1 Ship, no radar, no SETA, no view stats(speed, weapon, shield etc), no docking comp, no autopilot, small map, bugs, ugly npc and Indoor station.

    Its game designed for Xbox and PS3
  4. martolives
    Nov 25, 2013
    1
    A tragedy of grand proportions, it gets 1 point for potential, and that's the tragedy of it, the potential this game has is through the roof, but it's been wasted by the game's terrible launch state.
  5. Tarskin
    Nov 17, 2013
    3
    I have played all the X2 and X3 games prior to this and was really hyped and looking forward to this game but... it just doesn't deliver anything compared to it's predecessors. The entire mini-game idea (finding boxes, trying to get close behind other ships in highways, hacking) is just beyond silly and kills immersion. The amount of game breaking bugs is just appaling, I have playedI have played all the X2 and X3 games prior to this and was really hyped and looking forward to this game but... it just doesn't deliver anything compared to it's predecessors. The entire mini-game idea (finding boxes, trying to get close behind other ships in highways, hacking) is just beyond silly and kills immersion. The amount of game breaking bugs is just appaling, I have played roughly 15 hours so far and of those 15 hours at least 10 were spent trying to get past a certain bug and the current bug that's got me stuck caused me to decide to just un-install this game, wait a few months and maybe try again. I find it much more likely that i'll just go play X3:TC instead which is superior in every way.… Expand
  6. Hypergau
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I tried to play on an absolutely high end PC with three monitors (not supported). I cannot believe that this people finally killed every hope for a revival of my beloved space games (I am 52 years old and played Elite and Wing Commander and many other games having a lot of fun). Where to start? Space looks like a garbage can or is completely overloaded. The characters are very badlyI tried to play on an absolutely high end PC with three monitors (not supported). I cannot believe that this people finally killed every hope for a revival of my beloved space games (I am 52 years old and played Elite and Wing Commander and many other games having a lot of fun). Where to start? Space looks like a garbage can or is completely overloaded. The characters are very badly animated. Have they never seen other games such as Half Life or L.A.Noire? I use a SideWinder, Mouse and Keyboard but clicking is somehow without sense. And this ***ing flight through this space routes. Difficult to get out, but somehow you do. Then you are somewhere and they ask you to go to another. I bought the special edition and I am sure that I will remove the game from my disk within the next ten days. I do not believe that there is any chance to make that thing become an enjoyable game.… Expand
  7. Tziel
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I would love for this game to be the next great space sim but it just isn't. Everything about it just feels unfinished as if they waited till the day before release to scramble and throw together anything they had lying around. I am so sorry Egosoft but I just can't support this one.
  8. wolp2306
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    This game is in early alpha phase. to many bugs. no fun to play at the moment. give it some months, the community modder will fix the most problems that egosoft cant do. shame on you egosoft!
  9. vahadar
    Nov 24, 2013
    2
    All negative reviews sum it up. If they are so low it is to counter those fanboy 10/10 marks.

    The game is in beta or post alpha stage. I would advise people to wait at least 6 months before purchasing it. Egosoft has always put much love in fixing it games post release. But here the problem dont lie only with bugs, but with design features, that were sold to us many times but arent in    All negative reviews sum it up. If they are so low it is to counter those fanboy 10/10 marks.

    The game is in beta or post alpha stage. I would advise people to wait at least 6 months before purchasing it. Egosoft has always put much love in fixing it games post release. But here the problem dont lie only with bugs, but with design features, that were sold to us many times but arent in the game, instead we have poor design and loads of bugs.

    Plague by bugs.
    Trading not working.
    Capital ships owned by player not fighting.
    Quests stuck because of many bugs (i myself made an extensive thread sticked in the Workaround thread on official forum to give many hints on how to bypass them editing savegame so i know exactly what i'm talking about)
    UI very poor compared to previous titles (takes more actions with keyboard for similar commands)
    Not even a decent fleet command.
    Lacking fundamentals key binding, like target next ennemy, closest and so on.
    No radar.
    Very poor map, cant read it correctly.
    Walking in station was a good idea but it is very poorly done, you loose too much time in there.
    And many more that could be said (just check all other negative reviews for anidea).

    That said this game has huge potential, but i wont rate it on its potential but its current state. You probably wont be able to play it within the next month without huge issues forcing you to restart or edit your savegame, so for me its a 2/10 right now.

    Egosoft lied to us selling us awsomeness in all their interviews and trailers, even untill a week before release. When they knew their game was so badly tested, unfinished (missing small ships dealers and so on). In short they deceived the fans. And i was a very lonng term fan.

    Stay clear from this, and check official forum in 6 months or more to see how the game has evolved.    … Expand
  10. x1xscarfacex1x
    Dec 2, 2013
    1
    The game is slowly getting patched up to compensate for the catastrophic launch. Whether you have ever played any of the X series or not stay away from this title. It does not deliver a fraction of the features it promised. Read the critic reviews. There is a reason why they are so low.
  11. morvain
    Jan 15, 2014
    2
    I have played this game for several hours. the sad thing is that, the longer i played this game the more bad things i found out about it. it is like they left out each good thing they had in the x3 series and replaced it with bad things.
    The cockpit is blocking half of your field of view. there are thousands of bugs, menus dissapear, trading does not work properly, there are less ships,    I have played this game for several hours. the sad thing is that, the longer i played this game the more bad things i found out about it. it is like they left out each good thing they had in the x3 series and replaced it with bad things.
    The cockpit is blocking half of your field of view. there are thousands of bugs, menus dissapear, trading does not work properly, there are less ships, less sectors, less action, less available commands and of course less fun. The only improvement i found are the graphics.
    please dont waste your time playing this game.    … Expand
  12. Chaz0r
    Nov 18, 2013
    3
    There is an absolutely great game under this mountain of problems. Don't buy it yet! Follow the development of the game and see if and when they fix these problems. If they do and the game runs smoother, has less bugs and is more comfortable, then really, really buy it! But not now!
  13. Voyageurceleste
    Nov 18, 2013
    1
    As a fan from start of X series i am disapointed.
    I can understand its a new starting game even if it was announced to be the NEXT BIG THING.
    I can understand there are major bugs that can be resolved I can understand it lack of control that can be added Thoses missing script there are can be reviewed modded But what i cant understand is to let our community think of a    As a fan from start of X series i am disapointed.
    I can understand its a new starting game even if it was announced to be the NEXT BIG THING.
    I can understand there are major bugs that can be resolved
    I can understand it lack of control that can be added
    Thoses missing script there are can be reviewed modded

    But what i cant understand is to let our community think of a masterpiece and when it launched we got that.
    Nothing is deep, this remind me on old series like Master of Orion or Freelancer in more simple. But we are in 2013 !!
    Boring after hours stupid AI, stupid mini game choices no core game, design is awfull.
    Many dev have look deeper in the code and we can think it was coded first for Xbox360.
    That mean the UI is worst on a PC.

    I give it a "1" sadly i would have prefered to give a "10" for sure.
    I feel sad giving this cause behind this, there are people working with familly.
    But its a fail and it need to be known by users and the team leader of Egosoft.

    So sad after years waiting for this result..    … Expand
  14. SuperGod
    Mar 21, 2014
    0
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    WARNING DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    --------------------------------------- The problems of this game will never get fixed. They will fix the bugs but not the bad features. Do not buy this game. Just don't. It may look pretty, and it may sound interesting but it is a disaster. I tried this game and played to see all the "features" and the    ---------------------------------------
    WARNING DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    The problems of this game will never get fixed. They will fix the bugs but not the bad features.

    Do not buy this game. Just don't. It may look pretty, and it may sound interesting but it is a disaster. I tried this game and played to see all the "features" and the game is just so bad. The AI is non-existent, Ships can fly through station Graphics. Your ship cannot take damage from collisions. The highway system is just bad. Highways in space is a stupid idea anyways. There is no real challenge in space battles. Your ship is the strongest of all ships your cl****. Larger ships are too stupid to fight you. You can just hide in their hanger bay and shoot them for as long as it takes until they blow up. You are forced to have a geriatric zombie for a co pilot that wont shut up. There are maybe 3 upgrades for your ship. You are only allowed to fly one ship, you can never get another ship or fly another type of ship. There is only one flyable ship in the game. You cannot make trades in your ship. You must get others to trade for you. The games trading system is broken. Making a simple trade transaction takes too long (hours). More complex features are missing. The economic system is simplistic at its most complex. Nothing interesting ever happens in this game. There are no random events. There are no powerful enemies. The story is bad. The voice acting is bad. The human NPCs look like filth. The The alien models are all the most basic and uninspired.

    The makers of this game are **** holes. The Egosoft website is filled with mindless yes men. They will make fun of you if you don't like their game. The egosoft CEO is a jerk. He mocks the fans and tells them what they liked is irrelevant. The company and the CEO forces its employes to troll the Egosoft forums and the internet and post good things about the game. They will outright lie about features the game does not have just to make a sale. Everyone posting a 10 out of 10 on here and giving this game rave reviews are just company shills and trolls. They have no honer. They will mock anyone who liked the older games. They will mock anyone who does not like this current game of theirs. They make fun of Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous. They Ban people on their forums for telling them that their game is trash. They will not listen to any bug reports. They will not get rid of "features" that their old fan base does not like.

    AVOID THIS COMPANY AND THE GAME.    … Expand
  15. Dethstar
    Dec 2, 2013
    0
    Musics nice. Some of the graphics are nice. Others have shocking textures and fidelity. The textures in space stations are like something out of an old duke nukem game.

    The concepts and ambition in terms of making populated space feel a bit more alive than in previous games were admirable. Sadly this game is not. The latest long term series sunk. What stands out about this game    Musics nice. Some of the graphics are nice. Others have shocking textures and fidelity. The textures in space stations are like something out of an old duke nukem game.

    The concepts and ambition in terms of making populated space feel a bit more alive than in previous games were admirable. Sadly this game is not. The latest long term series sunk.

    What stands out about this game is that is the first game and only other genuine title which feels more like a scam. A lot of promises were made but this isnt just failing to meet expectations it is actually shamelessly scamming people. The X series is now officially over.

    I wouldn't take a free Ferrari from this company right now. Just waiting for the CEO of Egosoft to send me an email asking me for 50 Dollars to help a random contact or relation on the basis he will send me a 50,000 dollar cheque in return. They making these in Nigeria now?    … Expand
  16. LP04
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Male voice for the player character only? In this day and age? I got as far as the first few lines of dialogue, looked for an option to change the player voice to female or silent, couldn't find it, and then instantly stopped playing. Instant zero. $60 wasted.
  17. myx23
    Nov 17, 2013
    3
    after a few hours of suffering through this mess i will de-install the game and forget about it and egosoft. they are clearly on a path i don't want to follow as a longtime gamer. x rebirth shall mark the release in time when i finally stopped pre-ordering titles.
  18. Southerncross
    Nov 26, 2013
    2
    Do not buy this game. No amount of patching will be able to fix its inherent flaws. Wait for Elite: Dangerous or Star Citizen.

    Go back to X3TC AP if you have to.

    You have been warned.
  19. Arctarus
    Jan 28, 2014
    1
    After a full month of playtime and countless crashes on my high end pc system, I can safely say that X rebirth gives a revolting feeling of being let down by the game maker. For years, Egosoft has been making the X series. I've been trying to play them, and expected the latest to be no different. Having said this, I certainly didn't expect it to be this broken. And so, I can only agreeAfter a full month of playtime and countless crashes on my high end pc system, I can safely say that X rebirth gives a revolting feeling of being let down by the game maker. For years, Egosoft has been making the X series. I've been trying to play them, and expected the latest to be no different. Having said this, I certainly didn't expect it to be this broken. And so, I can only agree to the numerous harsh critics about not only the technicalities and mechanics being flawed in the game where one cannot do much at all with the state of the game. It's really not a game anymore, but some parts here and there, attached together by fragile coding without proper testings on high end systems. You wonder what a company like Egosoft put into a 7 years plan to make X rebirth to the state it is at release is beyond words. To rely and exploit solely on the modding community to save their own franchise is appalling and truly demeaning. There is really no excuse for this sort of base behavior. An existing ethic committee should be enforcing laws to prevent this from happening just as much as they have decided to prevent piracy. 4 points for bringing a broken game to the table and -3 points for exploiting the modding community to save their "dignity"… Expand
  20. Fletcherea
    Nov 30, 2013
    2
    Bad UI, confusing game mechanics, terrible performance with random fps spikes and drops.
    I would like to take this a bit further, great NPC conversations and dialogue, NOT!

    Fun sandbox, EVE single player like concept, terrible execution.
  21. G4ze
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Having played for 20 hours now i can safely tell you this isn't a true X game. If you look very closely at both the fact this game has 7 years in development and that it's originally designed for xbox you'll realize they knew it failed. It failed and they released it for PC. Sure, the visuals are nice, but the game doesn't even fit within the lure of other X games.

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

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

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

    Playing this game is like strangling an elephant by hand; damn near impossible.
    It might be worth $10-15 only because of the nice scenery it offers you. For me; i wish i had a refund.    … Expand
  22. NLS
    Nov 18, 2013
    1
    The game is utter cr*p.
    A friend beat me to buying it first, which saved me from making the mistake. Problem is he doesn't talk to me any more, because I pushed him to buy this (I own all X tittles except this one and he doesn't).
    We spent many hours to prove ourselves wrong. Let me take out the SINGLE thing that is fantastic in this game: The view of space stations (FROM SPACE only).    The game is utter cr*p.
    A friend beat me to buying it first, which saved me from making the mistake. Problem is he doesn't talk to me any more, because I pushed him to buy this (I own all X tittles except this one and he doesn't).
    We spent many hours to prove ourselves wrong.
    Let me take out the SINGLE thing that is fantastic in this game: The view of space stations (FROM SPACE only). Fantastic.
    Then?
    There are a million bugs. Some just kill the game, you cannot move the story forward etc. Eventually Egosoft will fix most of them (give them 2-3 years as their history shows), but what I cannot stand is that the game broken IN CONCEPT!
    Let me see...

    - Vital commands are missing. Your ships for example follow you wherever (crashing into structures in the process), you cannot tell them not to.

    - Console controls. Actually BAD console controls, as I tried using my X360 controller and I was still missing so many things. The games was intended for console. It almost "yells" "CONSOLE". WAY WAY worse controls than X:AP. People have found X360 strings in the files too, but let's not get into conspiracy theories.

    - (Non-)Immersion #1. The game forces to do everything using NPCs. Thing is... NPCs look like a 10 years old game. Bad textures, they don't move at all (I MEAN EVER even if you visit the station after a month), they reply incoherently, their lip syncing is German even when they talk English (yes like old Chinese karate movies) and to actually make them talk you need to point at a SPECIFIC box, not just point to the person.

    - Even whatshername, the NPC that actually is next to you as your assistant... They didn't take the time to at least make HER better (and I don't mean even bigger breasts).

    - (Non-)Immersion #2: Stations themselves? Tiny. You open boxes you cannot close (WTF?), you get stuck in environment (ok that's a bug, I said I would bother with bugs) ah... and almost all look the same (yes even where the boxes are).

    - (Non-)Immersion #3. All these would be "tiny" if the game didn't actually use them as core game elements. Your own ship interior (and ALL stations too, but let's concentrate on your own ship)... Textures must be 32x32 pixels or something (yes I am talking about textures like coming from System Shock). They look totally cr*ppy.

    - On with the (non-)immersion... You cannot move your "head" in the you are stuck looking forward or for certain functions turn right to face the (cr*ppy looking) assistant. UNBELIEVABLE.

    - List goes on... You cannot see your ship from outside, there is no autopilot (yes there is no autopilot!), the "highways" have a stupid "slipstream" mini-game (WTF!), viable way to gather some money is to open station boxes (those that cannot be closed) even with station security "looking" at you and get what is inside, there is the introduction of double-click (YES DOUBLE CLICK, like on desktop) for some actions, which must be the most counter-intuitive thing I've seen in a game for years... I can go on forever.

    Funny detail (possibly because game is an XBox game actually): Each save is around 25megs. So 40 of them is a gig. Would be ok with our huge disks these days BUT... Those 25MB ARE XML (i.e. TEXT) FILES that you can compress to around 1MB each. No.. Egosoft didn't add this stupidly easy procedure to save routine.

    Now, knowing Egosoft, assuming they survive from the sales this stupid excuse for a game will make, they will patch serious bugs in the next six months to a year, many more bugs in the next two three years, around the time a "2.0" version will come that will be what 1.0 should be today. Then assuming this game builds some fan base (yes people fall for whatever), they will eventually make a 3.0 that will include some things from the fan base wishlist, most actually implemented by mods... for free. Way to go Egosoft.

    Many people are looking into getting a refund (knowing Steam, they won't get it). Save the money for something else people. I am not buying it even when (it's not a matter of "if", it is a matter of "when") it goes down to budget title prices. Good thing there are at least two nice "space saga" games coming sooner or later. Sorry friend for tricking you into buying this game.    … Expand
  23. vexzidane
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Just for this game I made an account because I really wanted to give it a 0.
    Seriously give my money back, the game is broken.
    I smell a console game that din't work and they just patched it up, trew it on the pc to make some money. This is an utter scam, 7 years of development....... sure..... - allot of stations yup true but only what maybe 4 models? - npc jup allot of them but    Just for this game I made an account because I really wanted to give it a 0.
    Seriously give my money back, the game is broken.
    I smell a console game that din't work and they just patched it up, trew it on the pc to make some money.
    This is an utter scam, 7 years of development....... sure.....

    - allot of stations yup true but only what maybe 4 models?
    - npc jup allot of them but only maybe 8 models? and they all look 100 years old.
    - trading? ye.... no not realy your trade ships have the IQ of a chipmunk. With 0 response unless you wanne reload your game 10 times for every trade.
    - dogfighting..... ye sure... in the 1 ship you have that you can't mod and weapons that you don't even have a clue about what they are good for.
    - this is a game were the bugs are nothing compared to the bad programming and UTTER scam that this company pulled off.    … Expand
  24. MaxCrest
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Most of it has been said already, so I'll talk about "feel" more than the specific game mechanics and problems, since the old X series made you "feel" like you were in space with all possibilities at your fingertips. No more!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    My advise: Play X3 with the XRM or Elite or Star Citizen for combats. Stay away!    … Expand
  25. Nomade12
    Nov 24, 2013
    0
    I'm a big fan of Egosoft and loved the X series games from X2: The Threat.

    X Rebirth is a broken mess. Broken gameplay with disastrous design decision, poor radial UI menus with deeply nested commands, dialogues are terrible and so the voice acting, animation are somewhat creepy and mechanical and this game is repetitive beyond any level of acceptance (stations, people, dialogues and    I'm a big fan of Egosoft and loved the X series games from X2: The Threat.

    X Rebirth is a broken mess.

    Broken gameplay with disastrous design decision, poor radial UI menus with deeply nested commands, dialogues are terrible and so the voice acting, animation are somewhat creepy and mechanical and this game is repetitive beyond any level of acceptance (stations, people, dialogues and landing platforms are a complete copy-paste).

    The SETA doesn't exist anymore, so you have to wait ages until your freighter/drones complete their jobs.

    The Autopilot and the Command console are missing and you can only manually issue to your pilot 2-3 basic commands like follow (Join squad) and the basic sell or buy wares from comm menu. (If you manage to get them working)

    Also the docking concept is completely changed; to dock, you have to manually scan the huge station for the right landing platform (there are plenty) and double click the "Dock" icon when you are on a 100mt range. Then a small cut-scene starts and you magically spawn at the landing platform.

    The game is still broken and cannot be completed because a series of bugs in the AI of the NPC ships.

    Maybe Egosoft can fix X Rebirth to make it playable, but I don't think that egosoft can raise this game to even look like a X series game was, because this will mean to completely scrap their work and start anew.

    I don't understand why people is giving this game reviews like 10/10 just because Egosoft is fixing it ATM.

    This game is broken deep inside the design and the engine (Xbox 360 port) and will never be what other X series game were.    … Expand
  26. eddiedm
    Dec 2, 2013
    0
    Launch day: Loaded the game up and first couple of minutes, doubt it was actually "tested." I work in IT Support and we regularly test products for bugs and user problems. This phase was obviously skipped. Couldn't even progress through the first few items in the campaign. Horrid performance. Obvious and clear problems!

    Two weeks later after initial patches. Patching that quickly?    Launch day: Loaded the game up and first couple of minutes, doubt it was actually "tested." I work in IT Support and we regularly test products for bugs and user problems. This phase was obviously skipped. Couldn't even progress through the first few items in the campaign. Horrid performance. Obvious and clear problems!

    Two weeks later after initial patches. Patching that quickly? Patches good. But they couldnt test it prior to release? All major problems still present.

    0 to bring a 10 to 5.    … Expand
  27. Rizendell
    Dec 2, 2013
    0
    After 100 hours of play time giving this game a fair chance, I give this game a 0. Weeks after release, and the basic functions such as trading, mining, and drones are still hopelessly broken. While I have tried and tried again to get through the campaign it is wrought with endless bugs and glitches that make it unenjoyable and unplayable. The performance droops, hitches, and bouncesAfter 100 hours of play time giving this game a fair chance, I give this game a 0. Weeks after release, and the basic functions such as trading, mining, and drones are still hopelessly broken. While I have tried and tried again to get through the campaign it is wrought with endless bugs and glitches that make it unenjoyable and unplayable. The performance droops, hitches, and bounces all over the place. Even with the graphics settings turned up, the textures all look like they were place holders. The modeling detail is poor.

    The development team has reverted the game into a "public beta" state in a failed attempt to fix the bugs, and has a lack of communication with the community about its plans, its progress, and when we can expect. They haven't even posted on the steam forums in over 2 weeks.

    I am extremely disappointed in Egosoft. After being a loyal X-Universe fan since the beginning, receiving a game that just plain doesn't work is a huge shock. I will never ever buy another game from Egosoft. They might as well liquidate the company and give themselves a slap in the face on the way out.

    If you care about your wallet, and about receiving quality software for your money, do not buy this game or support Egosoft by playing it.    … Expand
  28. romaltya
    Dec 7, 2013
    1
    I'd like to stress that I've been a HUGE fan of the X-franchise ever since X: beyond the frontier. I was aware that this game would not be a "X4" but an entirely new look on the X franchise. Purpose was to make new gamers enjoy and get comfortable with the franchise and it's economys extreme complexity. A goal I thouroghly embraced.

    That being said this is perhaps the worst    I'd like to stress that I've been a HUGE fan of the X-franchise ever since X: beyond the frontier. I was aware that this game would not be a "X4" but an entirely new look on the X franchise. Purpose was to make new gamers enjoy and get comfortable with the franchise and it's economys extreme complexity. A goal I thouroghly embraced.

    That being said this is perhaps the worst spacesimulation of all times.. I can't recall a game that failed to deliver in this way. It's controls are bad to put it mildly.. When u're in the of the only ship u can fly u're pretty much locked in u'r seat with few to no options in regards to view, weaponry or other standardised informations ie. a radar. The fact u can only fly one ship makes the somewhat strange as u'd think they'd atleast make it a good one they haven't.. The fact that i lacks all the basics for a functionally makes u wonder what on earth they spend 7 years on.. Wasn't the complex economy that's for sure.. The economy is non-existent, ships fly with little purpose other than the graphical.. If that wasn't bad enough the only ship u can fly is a ugly bucket, which I didn't think was such a problem as they promised a lot of flexibility in the ships modules they failed to deliver though.. The game promised to make things less complex hardly achieved.. It promised a more gripping storyline hardly as all stations look the same and dialogue options is limited to nonexistent.. What it has done is take a franchise and put it's entire future in the twilight of a nebula.. I for one will not recommend this game to anyone, and I hope the developers in Egosoft are ashamed for releasing such an unfinished game.. Amazing after 7 years abscense..    … Expand
  29. jjalison
    Dec 12, 2013
    2
    Most games release with a few bugs. In the bug range from simple ants to gigantic roaches. This game has a swarm of roaches. The flying kind that lay eggs. The bugs even have bugs....
  30. Darkgungrave
    Dec 30, 2013
    0
    I want my money back for this game ...

    i play all X games but this is a bu ll sh it

    i feel me you hit my face so deep the characters from Gothic 1 are better this
  31. 1nsider
    Jan 25, 2014
    2
    Not a way to treat a hardcore open-universe space series. And not a good action either. If you're into serious space exploring sim - better try previous titles from X-series, this game is practically born dead.
  32. Palizoid
    Nov 23, 2013
    0
    Gave it benefit of the doubt. Now I've played more of it, literally the bugs and incredibly bad fps make it just painful and quite frankly terrible to play. Honestly was this even alpha tested? or for that matter did the developers even bother at all to test the game on any system? Seriously feel ripped off, and would not even consider looking at this game for another year or so until itGave it benefit of the doubt. Now I've played more of it, literally the bugs and incredibly bad fps make it just painful and quite frankly terrible to play. Honestly was this even alpha tested? or for that matter did the developers even bother at all to test the game on any system? Seriously feel ripped off, and would not even consider looking at this game for another year or so until it at least it finally reaches an alpha stage. Don't waste your money.… Expand
  33. cervomix
    Nov 22, 2013
    0
    This game is a shame, a dumbed down spatial game ripped off any interesting stuff. Be prepared to visit always same corridors on stations, and open crates everywhere like a mario taking gold coins... combat is boring as hell, no tactics, no skills (there is auto aim)... you can not fly other ships... oh my, what a waste of money!
  34. MicroBot
    Nov 17, 2013
    3
    I have bought this game at release day, paying hefty 65 for Collectors Edition, because I wanted to support the developer. After all, they made the X series which I enjoyed from the very beginning. After playing X Rebirth for 5 hours I have un-installed it. I won't go into all the things that are wrong with XR, others reviewed it already on Steam Forums, Youtube and here. Instead I'll tryI have bought this game at release day, paying hefty 65 for Collectors Edition, because I wanted to support the developer. After all, they made the X series which I enjoyed from the very beginning. After playing X Rebirth for 5 hours I have un-installed it. I won't go into all the things that are wrong with XR, others reviewed it already on Steam Forums, Youtube and here. Instead I'll try to summarize it in one phrase...

    X-Rebirth is to X-series what Dust 514 is to EVE...only much worse.    … Expand
  35. Mahalito
    Nov 17, 2013
    3
    As an iteration of an otherwise decent series, X Rebirth is devoid of the fun, immersion, and exploration its predecessors provided. There are bugs. Progression killing, game crashing bugs... but I'll leave those alone, since those can be patched away. My issue with this game is its measurable lack of good design vetting and failure to adhere to principles the X license had established.As an iteration of an otherwise decent series, X Rebirth is devoid of the fun, immersion, and exploration its predecessors provided. There are bugs. Progression killing, game crashing bugs... but I'll leave those alone, since those can be patched away. My issue with this game is its measurable lack of good design vetting and failure to adhere to principles the X license had established.

    User interface is disjointed... requiring mouse or keyboard clicks in some parts, radial menus in others, but all carrying a theme of trying to compress a lot of options in a tiny interface. It is painful to navigate. Many parts feel like differing developers contributed to varying aspects of the interface without clear direction, decisive design, or team coordination. Maps and spatial navigation are painful to use. Property management and wingman control are also painful to navigate.

    Voice acting is detrimental to the immersion. Many of the quips NPCs repeat are juvenile and usually jarring in context. "Nice conversation, Not!". Well... I'm glad I didn't hire that NPC as a manager for my economic empire.

    This title is plagued with incongruous design elements that seem like overall management and design of the game had no clear vision. Game-play is a mix of space simulation and arcade mini-games that, again, indicate a grab-bag development approach that lacked singular design vision or focus. Space flight feels somewhat true to the series. Approaching jump gates and intersecting with space lanes feels suitably majestic, then wham... you enter and traffic in the "highways" miraculously appears to facilitate a "drafting" mini-game that feels like a console arcade throwback. I was half expecting acceleration pads and banana canons.

    You are deprived of exploring and piloting the myriad of alien ships that were so prevalent in prior titles. You now have a single ship with only a handful of upgrades and options. There are no point-of-view options.

    Situation Awareness during dogfights took a significant dive. There is no radar, maps are useless, and target locking requires clicking with the mouse. If your mouse lacks extra buttons, you need to fire missiles via keyboard or a joystick bind.

    Control customization is lacking. You cannot change mouse binds. There is no multi-controller support, so HOTAS fans that have discrete controllers will be unable to configure a suitable setup. I gave up and went with throttle-and-mouse. Many ship features, such as sensor settings, cannot be bound and have to be triggered through the convoluted menu system.

    I have a monster of a PC, so I cannot make any statements about hardware scaling, but there were times the game would slow. In my mind, this is acceptable, since this allows scaling up the options as hardware performance improves.

    Overall, wait for community to make something of this sow's ear. 3/10    … Expand
  36. Dominus87
    Nov 17, 2013
    3
    I SO wanted this game to be good. The character models are very dated, which wouldn't be so but if the voice acting was good, which it isn't. Conversations with traders frequently end in "Good talk NOT!" I mean, come on. The graphics in space are pretty and they did a great job on the visual effects for stations and ships, but graphics alone don't make a game.

    The UI was horrible and    I SO wanted this game to be good. The character models are very dated, which wouldn't be so but if the voice acting was good, which it isn't. Conversations with traders frequently end in "Good talk NOT!" I mean, come on. The graphics in space are pretty and they did a great job on the visual effects for stations and ships, but graphics alone don't make a game.

    The UI was horrible and clumsy. The only thing that worked, albeit at a mediocre level, was a console controller. The menu system was tedious and not intuitive in the least.

    The worst part was the frequent crashing, game breaking bugs, and constant glitches. Over the 8 hours of my gameplay, the game crashed 4 times, I've had to restart from a previous save because of game-breaking bugs 6 times, and I can't even count the amount of small glitches that crept into the game. That and the scene load times, even on a high-end machine, were awful. It took maybe 10-15 seconds for an area to load up (particularly bad when docking).

    Over-all, I give this a 3/10. It still has promise if they polish it up and maybe add some features that remove the clunky feeling (auto-pilot anybody?).    … Expand
  37. zevl12
    Nov 21, 2013
    1
    This game is not x4, this is the defense by the devs. Ok i have never played x3 or any x game. I do not care about graphics or animation, i can tolerate bugs. The problems i mentioned now are not the problems of the game, the problem is the core game play. There is no good game hidden here. The entire game is utter crap, interface is HORRIBLE. Controls are HORRIBLE. There isn't a simulatedThis game is not x4, this is the defense by the devs. Ok i have never played x3 or any x game. I do not care about graphics or animation, i can tolerate bugs. The problems i mentioned now are not the problems of the game, the problem is the core game play. There is no good game hidden here. The entire game is utter crap, interface is HORRIBLE. Controls are HORRIBLE. There isn't a simulated game here, those small ships flying around do not have a purpose they are just cosmetic things flying around trying to make a nonexistentatmosphere. You can now only build on specific spots, trading is a boring time consuming non rewarding non informative piece of crap. The universe is really small. Previous titles had a gem hidden under the problems, entirety of x rebirth is a problem. 1/10, some things look cool (important when making trailers for this game that are scamming the public).… Expand
  38. klunny
    Nov 26, 2013
    0
    Like the four horsemen of the apocalypse all we have come to know and love has been taken away by egosoft. The fact of the matter is that this is first and foremost an attempt at a console game. It is built for the console players mindset and the limits of a controller. This is a terrible game. I have found no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Save yourself and steer well clear of it!
  39. BioCyde
    Nov 26, 2013
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I feel cheated donkey. Why this sucks graphics so brakes? I understand bugs, errors, etc. they can be a quick fix. But oh, this aunt wants to break into pixels of which it is composed and rinse in this square toilet. Dismiss students, hire professionals.… Expand
  40. smashpumpkin
    Dec 5, 2013
    0
    I gave it 0 because liars don't deserve one single point. And because my complete useless review has to be at least 150 characters, I'm now typing this extra phrase.
  41. T-1001
    Nov 25, 2013
    4
    Originally, I was going to write a lengthy review, but the best I can do without rambling is to give you 2 bullet-points and then summarize.

    1. Controls are too limited to make any sense. They seem to be designed for a console experience, but the game requires much more than what the control settings suggest, and besides, this is a PC exclusive. Why is this even a problem? 2. The UI    Originally, I was going to write a lengthy review, but the best I can do without rambling is to give you 2 bullet-points and then summarize.

    1. Controls are too limited to make any sense. They seem to be designed for a console experience, but the game requires much more than what the control settings suggest, and besides, this is a PC exclusive. Why is this even a problem?

    2. The UI is non-existent. None of the monitors have any necessary UI. How are you supposed to have a detailed space game without a comprehensive and intuitive UI? Well, Egosoft don't seem to know the answer either.

    So to summarize those 2 bullet-points: design.
    I'm guessing they wanted to make the game a bit friendlier to newcomers, which is a novel concept.
    In fact, I hate how un-friendly space games usually are, so this could have been my favorite of the whole genre.
    Of course, they f***ed up.

    So yeah, It's a VERY confused game. BIG disappointment.
    But I still have faith. I think they can retaliate with a massive patch. Or at the very least, with mods.
    Thankfully, there are several indie projects going on that might do a better job.    … Expand
  42. Arminius
    Jan 6, 2014
    3
    After I bought "Schicksalsklinge HD" in summer, I thought there will never be a game again that is that much flawed, bugged and unfinished at the time of release.
    Here I stand corrected.
    This wasn´t even a feature-completed Alpha when shipped, and it will take at least one more year of heavy patching to finish it. Sadly, I don´t believe it will live up to the expectations even when it´s done.
  43. TheMeph
    Nov 18, 2013
    4
    12 hours in and most of that was spent trying to get the ship AI to do their jobs. Miners wont mine, traders won't trade, nobody will do anything unless you find some complicated workaround. Completely broken and unplayable. There is no way to proceed unless all you want to do is shoot your 1 gun.
  44. Verbias
    Nov 25, 2013
    3
    Gameplay Time: 2 days, 15 hours
    Version: 1.12-1.16
    Last played: 25-Nov-13 This game is both amazing and a complete disaster at the same time, if you're fortunate enough to have the game run at a decent FPS, it's an incredibly beautiful scene filled with an amazing buzz of life, lights and sounds. If you're like the other 90% of us well tough you get your 20fps and you live with it    Gameplay Time: 2 days, 15 hours
    Version: 1.12-1.16
    Last played: 25-Nov-13

    This game is both amazing and a complete disaster at the same time, if you're fortunate enough to have the game run at a decent FPS, it's an incredibly beautiful scene filled with an amazing buzz of life, lights and sounds. If you're like the other 90% of us well tough you get your 20fps and you live with it sadly.

    The gameplay itself feels like a Beta, the game is not nearly finished, the main story line has been for me more about bug fixing then actual gameplay. Using the save files as workarounds for a lot of the current bugs I find myself spending more time on Google looking for answers then I do in game, sadly with the amount of replies I find, I doubt im the only one facing the same issue.

    At every angle this game feels like something a university student would have made the night before, it's thrown together with bits that have been copy/paste-ed from around the universe within the game, all the station internals are identical, the character animations are bugged, and very robotic, the UI is rubbish and a complete disaster to use, most of the container graphics i swear have been copied from Borderlands 2, the drone system is slow and broken, and worst of all you can never, ever, ever fly another ship...There is no doubt this game needs a lot more work, and the premature release may in fact see what could have been a great game, simply pushed into the "DO NOT WANT" heap.

    Well what about getting around you ask, exploration has been a massive feature in the X series, and has always been a lot of fun, well may as well get on with it; the highway system is frankly rubbish and buggy, often ending up inside other ships that you're supposed to "slipstream" behind, graphics rendering of objects at a distance is horrendous, lighting and shaders of other ship models at Medium-High settings are straight out of the 90's, and to add insult to injury; trade is completely broken, not being able to control the actual ships doing the trades is incredibly frustrating as you watch them do nothing with your orders.

    So you may ask at this point; why buy it at all then? Well luckily there is a ray of light in this seemingly bleak and gloomy world, the game is a spectacular piece of action, art, story and euphoria when it works, when it all comes together after hours of troubleshooting, you get that glimmer of what this game could really be as you're instantly re-immersed into the game's world, with amazingly easy to use combat mechanics, beautiful visual effects and a backdrop that will render you awe struck the game really does deliver on the core stuff...eventually.

    The sad fact is its all there, everything that EGOSOFT need to make an amazing game, but sadly they've come up short.    … Expand
  45. Dramadon
    Dec 8, 2013
    3
    I played this game for a few hours until I got to a quest that seemed to be broken. At least, I'd do the step, start to move to the next step only to have the quest flip back to the step I just finished. I tried resetting multiple times but it kept doing this. This, among the dozens of times in the few hours I played the game locked up or crashed made me feel like I'd been swindled by aI played this game for a few hours until I got to a quest that seemed to be broken. At least, I'd do the step, start to move to the next step only to have the quest flip back to the step I just finished. I tried resetting multiple times but it kept doing this. This, among the dozens of times in the few hours I played the game locked up or crashed made me feel like I'd been swindled by a snake oil salesman. The game is pretty and there is some potential, I guess, but honestly, crashes and this bug prevented me from getting far enough into the game to give an educated review about anything else. The game is simply broken.… Expand
  46. Xseries
    Dec 9, 2013
    1
    Just going to put ^ for all the complaints and then some for the about this atrocity.

    In fact, the total makeup of this game reminds me of Ubisoft, churning out rubbish linear, monotonus game-play games one after another and even then it didn't go all to "Better" graphics all go to waste in the absence of optimization, with a high end cpu i get choppy graphics. Last two releases were    Just going to put ^ for all the complaints and then some for the about this atrocity.

    In fact, the total makeup of this game reminds me of Ubisoft, churning out rubbish linear, monotonus game-play games one after another and even then it didn't go all to "Better" graphics all go to waste in the absence of optimization, with a high end cpu i get choppy graphics. Last two releases were wonderful, minus the terrible polygonal faces and lip movment.

    There is a major improvement in the humanoid department, maybe from virtua fighter days to 2000 (Current year is 2013 for the record). For heavens sake get someone who can actually make humanoids look like humanoids.

    Only thing i didn't experience from most of the other users, crashing.
    It's going to take a miracle to "fix" this game.
    Better start from scratch or just reuse the previous X-series formats, would still buy those. By the least i can CHOOSE a ship i want to use.

    1 point for the interior design of the Albion skunk. That's being generous.

    I'll only continue to support egosoft because of their history of good games and that this is a giant leap from the predescessors level of game design.    … Expand
  47. Greyfox452
    Dec 9, 2013
    1
    Tried really hard to get into this game and was terribly dissapointed. Take everything that was good about the previous X games and throw it out the window, add in a lot of bugs, broken or outright missing game components, and an agonizingly repetitive dialog minigame and you have X-Rebirth. I have some small hope that when the bugs are fixed and user feedback is addressed it will becomeTried really hard to get into this game and was terribly dissapointed. Take everything that was good about the previous X games and throw it out the window, add in a lot of bugs, broken or outright missing game components, and an agonizingly repetitive dialog minigame and you have X-Rebirth. I have some small hope that when the bugs are fixed and user feedback is addressed it will become an OK game, but probably never a great one. It feels like a failed console game ported to PC with chewing gum and twine. It never should have been released in this condition, and I hope Egosoft realizes the enormous harm this has on their reputation isn't worth the little bit of money they made. If you want a good experience in this genre try playing X3, wait for Star Citizen (which will hopefully be good,) or even go all the way back to Freelancer. As old as Freelancer is now, it is a much better game.… Expand
  48. Mindstar48
    Dec 11, 2013
    1
    There is a very good reason this has a bad rating, it's because its BAD, I pre ordered this junk and sorely wish I hadn't numerous bugs, glitches a boring campaign ridiculous system requirements for it to run well a boring and stupid story and bad controls make it a chore to play, not fun at all and i would rather be working than playing this junk. The only good thing? It works whichThere is a very good reason this has a bad rating, it's because its BAD, I pre ordered this junk and sorely wish I hadn't numerous bugs, glitches a boring campaign ridiculous system requirements for it to run well a boring and stupid story and bad controls make it a chore to play, not fun at all and i would rather be working than playing this junk. The only good thing? It works which actually is a bad thing because of how bad this game is.… Expand
  49. Vergeh
    Dec 11, 2013
    3
    Oh, Egosoft.

    I really, really wanted to like this game. I am a big fan of the X series, and I've been looking forward to this title... but really, Egosoft. This game is a perfect example of good intentions with bad execution. They set out to make the space trader sim more immersive and less... flowcharty. Where do I begin? I guess I'll cover the things that CAN'T be fixed with a patch.    Oh, Egosoft.

    I really, really wanted to like this game. I am a big fan of the X series, and I've been looking forward to this title... but really, Egosoft. This game is a perfect example of good intentions with bad execution. They set out to make the space trader sim more immersive and less... flowcharty. Where do I begin? I guess I'll cover the things that CAN'T be fixed with a patch.

    - The space stations are really, really samey. Like, I think that there are three station maps total for the hundreds of ingame stations. Should have been procedurally generated, or cut entirely. I think the idea of disembarking your ship to do station/planet missions is a brilliant idea for a space sim, but this is truly terrible execution. Going on the SAME stations every twenty minutes to do basic maintenance and resupply is grindy and terrible. Also enjoy the "where the hell is the vendor type I want" mambo.

    - They claim to have made the interface easier, but have made so many confusing unexplained oversights that I can't call the interface anything but regressive. If there hadn't been a mission to guide you exactly through freighter trading, I never would have figured it out. And I still don't know if there's even an inventory screen for the items you pick up while wandering around stations.

    - The station design is truly baffling. Was it really necessary to have six docking points on the same station, each with a different array of vendors? How about one docking point, with a menu of items for sale, with the option, not the necessity, of leaving your ship? I find it hard to believe that an advanced spacefaring culture doesn't have online storefronts.

    - Finding and equipping weapons in X was always a huge pain, but they've gone and oversimplified it the other way. I really don't mind stock layout in paid 'tiers' of upgrades for the ships I'm never gonna fly, but really, five weapons for the main ship?

    The sound is gorgeous, the universe feels a lot more colourful, diverse and expansive, and the ship models are attractive, but that is not enough to save this game. I cannot recommend this game to anyone, and it really bothers me because I know one truly bad game can sink a company, and a franchise.

    So everyone go buy X3. Much better game, and maybe it'll convince Egosoft to take smaller, less ambitious steps in the future.    … Expand
  50. Squarebasher
    Dec 12, 2013
    1
    Don't buy this game, I watched the pre-release videos, claiming that the game would be easier to use, it is not. The interface is completely frustrating, X terran conflict was far better, I really wish i had not wasted £40.00. The interactions with the NPCs are just irritating and really serve no function that a menu could not. Show me your skills please, is not only repetitive but tooDon't buy this game, I watched the pre-release videos, claiming that the game would be easier to use, it is not. The interface is completely frustrating, X terran conflict was far better, I really wish i had not wasted £40.00. The interactions with the NPCs are just irritating and really serve no function that a menu could not. Show me your skills please, is not only repetitive but too loud in comparison to the rest of the sounds. After the 1.19 update I thought I would give it another go, but have been stressed and frustrated for 30 minutes and cannot take anymore, I have never reviewed a game before, but I am so annoyed, that I have for this game just to make sure players are warned about it.

    Why when you have a small studio such as this with a relatively active community did egosoft not release this as a cheap alpha and get feedback and bug finding for free, if they paid there testers then i would ask for your money back.

    There are 2 good new things, the highways and the being able to target individual items on large ships and stations, and thats it.    … Expand
  51. larzslayer
    Dec 12, 2013
    1
    I have played x2/x3 countless hours, I played this game for around 40 hours and I was thinking its an interesting beta except its not.
    Visually its nice 8/10
    controls for flight solid 7/10 drones kinda a cool new way to use them 6/10 until your ship is destroyed because your in a drone lack of everything else user interface controls for commands for ships 0/10 there are really none    I have played x2/x3 countless hours, I played this game for around 40 hours and I was thinking its an interesting beta except its not.
    Visually its nice 8/10
    controls for flight solid 7/10
    drones kinda a cool new way to use them 6/10 until your ship is destroyed because your in a drone

    lack of everything else
    user interface controls for commands for ships 0/10 there are really none and the one thats there only half works add to squad however remove from squad and they still follow you and tell you there do not have fuel and still follow you glitchy
    missions 2/10 glitchy at best the pay and the difficulty have no bearing on anything there is no real briefing of what to do
    weapons 5 weapons total with no upgrade ability 1/10
    number of ships i can fly 1... 0/10
    how many times did i lose all controls and have to restart in 40 hours about 8 GLITCHY 0/10
    how many times did the game crash for no reason in 40 hours 5 0/10 UNSTABLE
    oh my combat targeting issues 0/10 for targeting why, you lock a target and then all ships blink and all locks gone and theres no hot key to lock targets or cycle them and with all them as red triangles whos closest?
    and killing drones and losing standing with everyone around even groups that hate the owner of said dead drones. 0/10
    but a show stopper is the stations it was removed after x2 because it slows the game down and players lose interest try looking for a single dealer selling 1 upgrade item in a random system random station on a random floor no maps and 10 other people selling things that are close but not the right one big upset there 0/10
    As a hard core X player if i remember i have this in 1-3 years i might try to update it and play it again and probably mod the heck out of it
    Overall
    no choices, slow play, glitchy, crashy, non x style game.
    DO NOT BUY IT YET SAVE YOUR MONEY TILL LATER
    1/10 overall due to cool graphics    … Expand
  52. AdrianChiru
    Dec 23, 2013
    4
    What should have been a revolution turned into a devolution. Egosoft promises of a living world that moves and changes with you still remain promises under a million of bugs. The game has received a lot of patches and will receive a lot more but I fear this will not fix the bad design decisions already made.
  53. knightal
    Dec 27, 2013
    1
    The worst game for FPS every graphic setting turned off and still runs like a dog. (Sorry dogs), bugs too numerous to mention.

    As one person said in the forum "If you got this game for Xmas then you must have been real naughty"
  54. WhatszThis
    Dec 31, 2013
    1
    i really liked the other x-games, but this one is just aweful!!!

    -Buggy (plot stopper, crashes, fps drops), just unplayable
    -key features of the game dont work yet (like trading)
    -very ugly characters and animations
    -most of the game is just for show and not part of the simulation
    - u can only fly one ship
  55. purplekrunk
    Mar 18, 2014
    0
    This game is TERRIBLE...DO NOT PURCHASE IT....I have played all of the x series and enjoyed them immensely, but this is the WORST of the series. Terrible broken English makes it very clear that this game is created by a Russian, or other non English speaking person. Graphics and maps and Hangars and general localities are repetitive again and again and again you go through the same exactThis game is TERRIBLE...DO NOT PURCHASE IT....I have played all of the x series and enjoyed them immensely, but this is the WORST of the series. Terrible broken English makes it very clear that this game is created by a Russian, or other non English speaking person. Graphics and maps and Hangars and general localities are repetitive again and again and again you go through the same exact looking stations, and see the same face with different colors, and hear the same terrible accents and bad grammar.
    Flight control System is ok, but key assignments are so limited compared to the original game that you might as well forget it.
    If you bought this game because you thought you were going to get to fly a bunch of ships and build trade lanes and create a presence in the universe....well you bought the wrong game...go back and get X3TC or X3 Reunion MUCH more fun games, despite the limitations.
    let me tell you something about CRASHES....omg...constantly...sometimes the trade screen freezes, the only way out is to ALT TAB and then ALT TAB AGAIN....ugh....sometimes it just crashes in the middle of flying sometimes when you dock....it is GARBAGE....
    I could go on, but as a gamer starting in 1983 I believe that my opinion carries a great deal of weight, and this game 10 thumbs DOWN....garbage....    … Expand
  56. ddddddddddddddd
    Nov 26, 2013
    1
    I was pretty hyped up for this game, and guess what I got?
    A bag of half-completed ****
    Frame rate, 0.
    Gameplay, about as good as Ride to Hell: Retribution.
    UI, just plain terrible.

    But the soundtrack ain't half bad.
  57. Illidianz
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    This game isn't even an X game, has nothing to do with previous games, seems like they wanted to make an x game for console but didn't want to start in the middle of a series so they started with this bad game; thus why there isn't an x4 in the title. Problem is, it was so bad and xbox refused this game so they said, well, lets just relabel it as a PC game, add some PC libraries to theThis game isn't even an X game, has nothing to do with previous games, seems like they wanted to make an x game for console but didn't want to start in the middle of a series so they started with this bad game; thus why there isn't an x4 in the title. Problem is, it was so bad and xbox refused this game so they said, well, lets just relabel it as a PC game, add some PC libraries to the game and poof, profit.....as you can see, this score reflects what users think of this game, It is horrid, when the game devs finally do die, i hope there's a place in hell for them where they will be forced to play ET for the atari 2600 for eternity...… Expand
  58. ed_jpa
    Nov 18, 2013
    0
    Ok, this is the best starting point for any X:Rebirth review: This is not, I repeat, this is NOT an X-series game. Anyone who played any of the X games will know that. They "consolized" it, they ripped it off of the best features, they introduced features that are not only useless, but also (and especially) NOT FUN at all. I will not enumerate these, because lots of other ppl already did.Ok, this is the best starting point for any X:Rebirth review: This is not, I repeat, this is NOT an X-series game. Anyone who played any of the X games will know that. They "consolized" it, they ripped it off of the best features, they introduced features that are not only useless, but also (and especially) NOT FUN at all. I will not enumerate these, because lots of other ppl already did.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    X series modders: Unite in any way and make what X:4 should be. It cannot be that hard, considering everything this community made so far. Forget Egosoft, they lost all the respect they deserved after this.    … Expand
  59. Gezzer
    Nov 15, 2013
    3
    So this was in development for 7 years right? Why?
    I've never played any of the other X games so I don't know how this compares. But taken on it's own it seems like it's someone's "grand vision", that got hit with major feature creep and finally had to ship or it would never ship at all.
    I've only played up to the point where I have to deliver the captain to my trade ship (I think it    So this was in development for 7 years right? Why?
    I've never played any of the other X games so I don't know how this compares. But taken on it's own it seems like it's someone's "grand vision", that got hit with major feature creep and finally had to ship or it would never ship at all.
    I've only played up to the point where I have to deliver the captain to my trade ship (I think it is). I actually had to save and go online to figure out how to deliver her. It's not that there's a lot of actions that the UI needs to account for, it's the fact that it's so fcking unintuitive it fights you at every turn. So how do I deliver my captain. Well there's this tiny little green icon that when I double click it I'll get the docking menu. Again, why? They could of either had double clicking the entire ship when in range opened the dialog, or have an obvious docking platform to click on, but a small green icon in the captains HUD?
    So far the whole UI seems to be designed so that the developers can say, "It's a complicated game folks, see all the different UI elements we had to use!". You can have a complicated game with a simple and intuitive UI, it's not that hard to do.
    I also find that so far the surrounding in space is crowded to the point where it's claustrophobic. Well it's nice that space is populated so there's something to interact with it just doesn't feel like space. Add to that the fact that everything has information attached to it and it's really easy to be hit with information overload. The first battle with the 2 drones was like that.
    Which brings me to the only space station I've been on when I hired my captain. Small, but with no one on it except for traders and other essential NPCs. It just doesn't feel alive, no ones walking around. You have a really weird conversation system that has no underlying logic to it. And the worst thing? You have to maneuver yourself so that the NPCs are facing you or they won't talk to you. You can't click on them and have them turn around to face you? Nope. They ignore you and your conversation jumps to the next NPC facing you. As for the stealing system, it again feels incomplete. You open lockers right beside the guard with no reaction at all.
    Then there's the graphics. they're so hit or miss it actually makes the bad ones seem worse. For example there's a panel on the ship that the texture is so low rez that you can actually see the stair step effect on the letters. And this isn't up close either, it's at a normal viewing distance.
    I could go on, and on, but the truth is this looks like a game that could of been good, even great, but poor design decisions jump out at you at every turn. I'm almost put in mind of DukeNukeEm forever. It's like it was a labour of love and everything was sacrosanct to the developers so nothing could be reavaluated to see if it was working or not in regards to the overall game. So they struggled to get everything that they wanted into the game and more importantly get all the design elements to come together and work as a whole. And finally just started running out of resources and had to quickly slap a coat of paint on the thing and get it out the door.
    Sigh, like so many others before it I just have to wonder what could of been. As it stands now even with alot of patching to fix the normal and not so normal launch day bugs/issues I don't know if there's any way that the developers can fix the underlying problems of simply just a poorly executed design. Maybe like CD Projekt RED did with the first Witcher game they'll polish and refine all the glaring problems till they have a much better game. Then both issue a patch to current owners and a new improved release version. Then again those Witcher guys are a one in a million so I wouldn't hold my breath.    … Expand
  60. messiahua
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    As a fan of previous X series I AM disappointed. This game had huge potential. Some spectacular features were added, but a lot of other important and fundamental features removed/changed. This release reminds me of rome 2 total war. I very much like new station complexes, they are huge and look amazing, I like ambient traffic and activity, which is very cool and makes a living world, IAs a fan of previous X series I AM disappointed. This game had huge potential. Some spectacular features were added, but a lot of other important and fundamental features removed/changed. This release reminds me of rome 2 total war. I very much like new station complexes, they are huge and look amazing, I like ambient traffic and activity, which is very cool and makes a living world, I like theoretical concept of free space and more playable areas, except predefined sectors (like it was in previous X's), I like expanded crew idea, a lot of different professions and ability to assign subordinates for commanders (in previous X's almost with anything you had to micro-manage and it was very time consuming if you had big empire) to make something work autonomous, but everything else is such a shame:

    1. No basic stuff like radar (and/or minimap), hotkeys for example to select nearest target
    2. UI is very uncomfortable to use, your only ONE ship is not interactive at all and blocks a lot of view, not possible to rotate your head
    3. Repeated dialogs and phrases of NPCs, which you start to hate after several hours of gameplay
    4. Almost entirely identical station interiors, which you already hate
    5. Impossible to talk with NPCs remotely and you are forced to dock each time and you're not really sure you will find the one you're looking for, sometimes you get direction for the one, who is red (low reputation and he won't speak to you)
    6. Impossible to give any basic commands to you subordinate ships (only to form up squad)
    7. Map is almost useless and navigation is hard, you sometimes can't figure out where your ships are at all
    8. Game crashes very often, like at least one time in an hour, but really, this would not be a problem, if gameplay was fine
    9. mini-games everyone... crate/locker hunter simulator REALLY? That's the most idea ever, it feels like this one came from some 10years old child. Unlimited personal inventory... enough...

    I really don't understand. Are developers not playing the game itself? Are they blind? How at least mentioned basic stuff is missing? It's enough to play a few hours to understand all problems. On the other side, they probably seen all this, but couldn't change anything and simply released crappy game for everyone to choke on.

    Probably I can continue this list, if I would make additional notes while playing to remember every damn negative bit of this game, but what's the point... Like with rome 2 total war, the most important thing money collected. I don't like how this is going and I'm almost sure nothing will change, except if they will make another "NOT X" game and name it as "X".    … Expand
  61. Crular
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    My first review got deleted somehow, so here we go again. The game doesn't really deserve a 0, but as already mentioned by some people here I also have to give it 0 to compensate for the obvious fake 10 reviews here.

    Pros: - nice try Cons: - Graphics: though looking like from the last decade the performance is abysmal - Design: so many design flaws, don't want to list them all,    My first review got deleted somehow, so here we go again. The game doesn't really deserve a 0, but as already mentioned by some people here I also have to give it 0 to compensate for the obvious fake 10 reviews here.

    Pros:
    - nice try

    Cons:
    - Graphics: though looking like from the last decade the performance is abysmal
    - Design: so many design flaws, don't want to list them all, but for example the walking around in stations and looting crates and lockers for stuff, as well as crawling through air vents and finding artifacts there. Seriously?
    - Bugs: tons of those. And the kind anyone who played this game for 5 minutes would be able to find.
    - Price: much too high for the product

    I honestly haven't played a worse game in this millennium. It's no wonder there won't be a demo for this game. Gotta reel in the cash as long as you can, right?    … Expand
  62. pulltop
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    I usually don't review games on metacritic but I felt the need to register a new account and share my genuine thought on this one particularly. I am completely stunned by the amount of X Rebirth/Egosoft apologist that rushed to give this game a blatantly biased 10/10 score. This game provides very little in terms of game play compared to previous X titles; it actually took more away fromI usually don't review games on metacritic but I felt the need to register a new account and share my genuine thought on this one particularly. I am completely stunned by the amount of X Rebirth/Egosoft apologist that rushed to give this game a blatantly biased 10/10 score. This game provides very little in terms of game play compared to previous X titles; it actually took more away from the genre instead of brought fresh ideas in.

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

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

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

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

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

    TL;DR: This game should not have passed QA control. It's beyond redeemable for a $50 game, seven freaking years in development.    … Expand
  63. Obsolescence
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Feels/plays/looks like a bad console port to PC. Performance is rubbish. Is nothing like the X games we all love. Makes me ashamed to have been waiting this long to play it. I am the fool who has been parted from his money.

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

    Don't make the same mistake I did! EGOSOFT should be ashamed of themselves. They should have just cut their losses and not released it, or just done an expansion pack for X3. At this point, the X universe is dead to me. I doubt they'll ever release another title like or better than X3. This game is literally the death of a franchise witness.    … Expand
  64. Absolutely
    Nov 23, 2013
    0
    game advertised with lies, promises, unreal gameplay. ended up with unfinished features, bugs, lags... etc etc...also new updates coming out daily and desperately but without any fix at all making game more unable to play. all i can see about this game that has brilliand advertisement, preorders, sale and unreal game review to trick people to buy the game. TERRIBLE, do not buy it
  65. slagath0r
    Nov 26, 2013
    1
    How could you kill the X series that easy???
  66. WingedAnomaly
    Dec 12, 2013
    2
    Hey, it's more accessible than earlier X titles!
    ...which would be nice if it ran at more than ten frames per second on high end systems.
    The performance is a bloody atrocity. A machine that can giggle its way through Assassin's Creed IV should NOT be showstopped by this game. It's pretty, but it's not THAT pretty, particularly at minimum bloody settings.
  67. daviddavidson
    Nov 23, 2013
    0
    It's not hard to see that rebirth is a botched console port; though even disregarding that it's still a terrible game.
    First off, they have made it so you're stuck in one ship, which wouldn't be bad if you could customise it heavily, though in reality there are less than ten guns to equip it with. There are other ships in the game, though you can't fly them yourself, you have to rely on    It's not hard to see that rebirth is a botched console port; though even disregarding that it's still a terrible game.
    First off, they have made it so you're stuck in one ship, which wouldn't be bad if you could customise it heavily, though in reality there are less than ten guns to equip it with. There are other ships in the game, though you can't fly them yourself, you have to rely on that being done by AI, which once again wouldn't be a huge issue, but in this case the AI is heavily broken; ships rarely do what they tell you and even then it takes forever for them to do anything. Orders given to ships are managed through a radial menu optimised for consoles, so telling your ships what to do takes forever again.
    Trading has to be babysat by going to every system you want to sell in and placing your orders at the station, meaning that it is slow and tedious, there are even silly minigames involving you clicking on certain parts of the station to get discounts, once again dumbing down a tried and tested formula that has worked with X games for years.
    The interiors of just about everything look terrible, your single ship has only two rooms that are accessible other than the cargo hold, one is the which you have your view locked in the forward position and the other is a tiny little room with a table and chair, you can't sit at the chair. Station interiors have to be visited and are barren and lifeless, unless you count the talking tables in the bar, which, presumably were supposed to have people sitting at them, generating background noise. The stations are compulsory too, meaning that if you want to hire someone, you need to go into the station, then look around and find them. I need also mention that stations contain silly minigames too, consisting of crawling through the same two vents and opening crates.

    It should be called X-Miscarriage, not X-Rebirth    … Expand
  68. Nebulawolf
    Nov 23, 2013
    0
    I am now convinced this game is a very very poor console port, made for the xbox 360 but never released (understandably even xbox/console fanboys have standards). What the devs need to do is stop releasing X-xbox-rebirth fixer-ups and start writing some REAL PC code, then release that as an update with an enormous apology to all who were the X Series fan base.
  69. Sarovak
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    This one was one of my most anticipated games for this year. Trading, equally deep as the other X games, if not more. Explore new universes, mining fields, ships and space stations to buy and destroy. Fight for your life in a fantastical graphical display of lasers and rail-guns with explosions that makes you go "wow!". And lastly, Think, do whatever you want to do.

    Sadly, no, too many    This one was one of my most anticipated games for this year. Trading, equally deep as the other X games, if not more. Explore new universes, mining fields, ships and space stations to buy and destroy. Fight for your life in a fantastical graphical display of lasers and rail-guns with explosions that makes you go "wow!". And lastly, Think, do whatever you want to do.

    Sadly, no, too many game breaking errors, too stupid AI to navigate and fight, countless bugs and savegame corruptions. The space stations all use the same levels, the npc's talks like idiots, none of them are worth mentioning. I've tried to play the game for a few tens of hours, and yet I still cant remember or care what the co-pilot gal is named.

    Awful, just awful... such a disappointment.    … Expand
  70. Xels
    Nov 25, 2013
    0
    This plays like a pre-alpha technological build, not a retail game. Not even close. As a fan of the previous titles this is a huge disappointment. Publishing in this state is unforgivable.
  71. jmac7111
    Dec 6, 2013
    0
    After having 100+ hours on this game and with a previous experience on X3:Albion Prelude, this is my review:

    1. This game has nothing to do with previous X-series. It is a stripped down version with lots of important features missing, and it seems deliberately so left out. 2. Besides the fact that it is actually still a Beta version, the main plot does not work and the game (Ver.    After having 100+ hours on this game and with a previous experience on X3:Albion Prelude, this is my review:

    1. This game has nothing to do with previous X-series. It is a stripped down version with lots of important features missing, and it seems deliberately so left out.

    2. Besides the fact that it is actually still a Beta version, the main plot does not work and the game (Ver. 1.18) crashes very often.

    3. It is clearly designed as an Xbox and not a PC game (for example joystick support is missing) with an overall very bad PC UI. The overall performance is bad as well.

    4. Based on the above, I do not expect any further improvements, except existing bug fixes after maybe a few months, but not earlier (yes, it is that bad, considering also the 'promised' and the 'delivered', besides the deceiving done by Egosoft). And don't expect any serious modding, for I doubt if experienced modders will ever want to get 'dirty' with this stupid implementation.

    5. If you are around 10 years old and just want to make a trip around space, see some rather good graphics and do some primitive fighting, trading and station building, you can do it, but definitely NOT on this price tag and not now wait until it is fixed.
    Furthermore, if you are new to this, you will spend a lot of time learning and understanding it, because there is almost no comprehensive help. You will constantly be under the impression that it is your own fault if things don't work out, while it is really the dev's very bad and brain damaging concept and design, which is full of holes with hardly any info given. Prepare to spend more time searching through the forums seeking for help, than actually playing the game.

    6. Having said that, just to use the game's motto, you can completely forget about proper "Trade" and most importantly "Think" (which is totally absent from this game, if not the reverse).

    7. If you are an X-gamer DO NOT BUY it. It's really a big piece of garbage and you will be utterly and bitterly disappointed.

    8. And last but not least, please read the comments and see all reviews about this game on Steam and on other sites too

    i.e. http://steamcommunity.com/app/2870/discussions/0/648811852715079441/

    9. Final score 0--    … Expand
  72. fluffa
    Dec 19, 2013
    0
    here is the lesson on how to not make a game for somebody with a brain, its aim at the mass market of none thinkers. A money grab at its very best. Egosoft just blow away a hard earned fan base. commercial suicide
  73. rohannon_cl10
    Dec 19, 2013
    0
    X-Rebirth try again! More like X-Afterbirth as this is the bloody mangled remains after the best part has been removed. I have spent years playing the X series and this is a travesty of the greatest kind. About the only thing in common with the other games is the names of the various factions.

    Autopilot non-existent Maps non-existent M.S.C.I. (The single most unique aspect of the X    X-Rebirth try again! More like X-Afterbirth as this is the bloody mangled remains after the best part has been removed. I have spent years playing the X series and this is a travesty of the greatest kind. About the only thing in common with the other games is the names of the various factions.

    Autopilot non-existent
    Maps non-existent
    M.S.C.I. (The single most unique aspect of the X games) non-existent
    Plot non-existent
    Fleets of player ships non-existent
    Enjoyment non-existent

    Bugs Overabundant
    Cookie cutter stations Overabundant
    motion sickness inducing cut scenes Overabundant and unable to be skipped
    useless fluff ships that fly in an endless circle and kill your frame rate well to keep with the space theme there are less stars in existence.

    All in all this game is a useless waste of computer space.    … Expand
  74. Walpurgisnacht
    Nov 23, 2013
    1
    So where to start? This is so bad i don´t know where to start.
    Here the only good point I found:
    Grafics in Space are awesome.
    Here are the bad points I found:
    Only one ship to steer directly
    Space Stations can only be build at given locations
    Aweful npc-grafics inside of stations
    Many bugs and crashes
    Trade not functioning.
    Ach it it´s
  75. mcmaul
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I cannot award this game any points as it is not a finished product. Day one of release the CEO of Egosoft submitted a public apology for bugs that they state managed to slip through. I find it hard to believe Egosoft released a product that they felt was finished given the sheer quantity of bugs and their effect on gameplay. You simply cannot play this game more than a couple of hoursI cannot award this game any points as it is not a finished product. Day one of release the CEO of Egosoft submitted a public apology for bugs that they state managed to slip through. I find it hard to believe Egosoft released a product that they felt was finished given the sheer quantity of bugs and their effect on gameplay. You simply cannot play this game more than a couple of hours without running into a fleet of game breaking bugs. The only real minigame I've found is the one where you alt tab to research workarounds for the broken core mechanics you run into every 15 minutes.

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

    Instead you attached a premium price tag to a broken game that you shamelessly peddled as "a new title to bring life back to the genre". The way you have marketed this game and opened it up to consumers profiting from a game not broken, but rather not nearly finished, is downright criminal. I hope Steam recognizes this and preserves their integrity by distancing themselves from you, your product, and removes your game from their selection until you can get your act together.    … Expand
  76. overthere2
    Nov 28, 2013
    1
    Just awful, buggy mess with broken animation broken missions, broken trading just did not work as advertised.
    The game mechanics have been grossly changed from previous games making it a slog.
    What did I get for my £40? The feeling I'm a complete idiot who's been taken for a ride. Got a 1 rather than 0 as some of the space scenes are quite pretty - Disappointed fan of the X series    Just awful, buggy mess with broken animation broken missions, broken trading just did not work as advertised.
    The game mechanics have been grossly changed from previous games making it a slog.
    What did I get for my £40? The feeling I'm a complete idiot who's been taken for a ride.
    Got a 1 rather than 0 as some of the space scenes are quite pretty

    - Disappointed fan of the X series
    With lots of other space genre games coming out know this is the last game I'll be buying from this studio    … Expand
  77. runtime13
    Nov 17, 2013
    4
    After i played this title, I have some questions: Why I bought this game? Why EGOSOFT has created a game so outrageous? This software is not up to other space games. X3AP is better than this game. Even Evochron is better than this title. My only regret is the fact that the game is on STEAM, otherwise it would sell right away. DON'T BUY. For italian player: NON COMPRATELO!!! NON VALE IAfter i played this title, I have some questions: Why I bought this game? Why EGOSOFT has created a game so outrageous? This software is not up to other space games. X3AP is better than this game. Even Evochron is better than this title. My only regret is the fact that the game is on STEAM, otherwise it would sell right away. DON'T BUY. For italian player: NON COMPRATELO!!! NON VALE I SOLDI CHE COSTA!… Expand
  78. Synd
    Nov 16, 2013
    4
    In short, if you are a true fan of the X series, don't bother with this game.

    To the developers: if you want to rely on the modders to fix your game, you should give them the tools quickly.

    Unoptimized
    No Joystick support (seriously, on a space sim)
    Hand-holding everywhere

    I hope I will revise my judgement in the next few months.
  79. sirpug
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    Marketing and pricing suggests this game should be up to par with similar titles released in 2013. Don't let it fool you, this game should a free alpha from the mid-2000's at best. The only positive thing I can say is that the space environments would be beautiful except for the fact that 50% of the screen is blocked by a functionally useless HUD. I can without a doubt say that this isMarketing and pricing suggests this game should be up to par with similar titles released in 2013. Don't let it fool you, this game should a free alpha from the mid-2000's at best. The only positive thing I can say is that the space environments would be beautiful except for the fact that 50% of the screen is blocked by a functionally useless HUD. I can without a doubt say that this is the worst game I've ever had the pleasure of paying money for:

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

    The list goes on, but the bottom line is that the marketing campaign was an outright lie. This shell of a "game" is definitely not worth the price tag.    … Expand
  80. Kadera
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I bought X Rebirth hoping for a game to tide me over until Star Citizen came out, and I totally regret the decision. I don't think I've ever seen a game less ready for release or so visually dated from first launch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    I'm with reviewer Macscorner: I wish I'd instead just given the money to a homeless person. Even if they ran off and bought a bottle of vodka with it, at least someone would have received pleasure from the purchase.    … Expand
  81. furfa
    Nov 26, 2013
    0
    This game is in alpha, the critical pieces that impact gameplay DO NOT WORK. The storyline especially is absolutely unworkable, the only recommended fixes are re-coding your save games. Really? I thought Star Wars TOR was not ready, this game makes that game look polished and patched for 3 years. I am irate I paid 60 dollars to play this game, it is not ready to be released.
  82. danskmacabre
    Dec 1, 2013
    0
    For the love of god, don't buy this game.
    buggy, Stuttering FPS even I have a Gaming PC bought a few months ago and runs new new games I've thrown at it fine except this.
    So many terrible design decisions. Even if the bugs are fixed it'll still be a terrible game.
    I'll go back to X:AP etc

    AVOID!
  83. Nekronata
    Dec 1, 2013
    0
    It is the worst game, I have "played" in the last 10 years!!! It is also the most buggy game i have "played" in the last 10 years. This game is simply customer fraud and not more.
  84. DonGarcon
    Feb 10, 2014
    0
    Bought this game in december and now in february still no patch that fixes game crash. Effectively I have wasted money on unplayable game that doest even work! Over the years I have bought and played a lot of games and this is the first time I experience so poorly developed product. I wish someone sue developers for this scam. It really is scam when you pay for something that doesnt workBought this game in december and now in february still no patch that fixes game crash. Effectively I have wasted money on unplayable game that doest even work! Over the years I have bought and played a lot of games and this is the first time I experience so poorly developed product. I wish someone sue developers for this scam. It really is scam when you pay for something that doesnt work and you can't even get a refund!… Expand
  85. Shadix
    Feb 13, 2014
    0
    I cried for the first 15 minutes while playing this game. Seven years of waiting and all I got is a completely rubbish game full of bugs, glitch, bad performance, etc, you name it.

    Campaign is broken with bad scripting. Trading doesn't work, stuck in the skunk forever, and I can't even tell my other ships to go to a place where I want.. For every 1 hour of campaign, i spend 40    I cried for the first 15 minutes while playing this game. Seven years of waiting and all I got is a completely rubbish game full of bugs, glitch, bad performance, etc, you name it.

    Campaign is broken with bad scripting. Trading doesn't work, stuck in the skunk forever, and I can't even tell my other ships to go to a place where I want..

    For every 1 hour of campaign, i spend 40 minutes searching solution or editing savegame due to many,many bugs.

    I miss my X3:TC.. This game is simply frustating, not enjoying at all. There's no fun in this game!    … Expand
  86. mustafa6734573
    Feb 21, 2014
    0
    Thank God for "illegal" download, I would not buy this game even to torture someone I hate.

    Controls are so hard you can't shoot straight, cant select, cargo is looted with ramming into it, every single thing has a special kind of torture sequence. Every bar is the same, every station is the same (only the outer shape is different-sometimes), every ship inner **** is the same and that    Thank God for "illegal" download, I would not buy this game even to torture someone I hate.

    Controls are so hard you can't shoot straight, cant select, cargo is looted with ramming into it, every single thing has a special kind of torture sequence. Every bar is the same, every station is the same (only the outer shape is different-sometimes), every ship inner **** is the same and that is all u have in the game. Its not complex, its just ridiculous, unplayable on every possible angle. On a scale of 0 to 100, this game gets a magnificent score of -858993460.

    May you rest in peace now X, we all loved you and still do.    … Expand
  87. TheAtomicOption
    Dec 29, 2013
    3
    This game has some incredibly fun moments that are absolutely ruined by the ridiculous number of bugs, terrible UI, and lack of information about how the UI works.

    This game has some moments that reminded me of the great classic Freelancer. The graphics are decent. You can trade stuff between zones to make money. You use highways and gates and it takes time to get around which makes    This game has some incredibly fun moments that are absolutely ruined by the ridiculous number of bugs, terrible UI, and lack of information about how the UI works.

    This game has some moments that reminded me of the great classic Freelancer. The graphics are decent. You can trade stuff between zones to make money. You use highways and gates and it takes time to get around which makes the universe feel big.

    But you can't trade, cause your freighter won't follow orders, and your computer only remembers available trades for an hour. There are some important orders for crew and captains that just plain aren't there (like hold position or goto zone X without me). Some main plot missions can't be finished without editing your save file manually, and the game occasionally hangs or crashes straight to the desktop.

    The combat is probably the best part. Fly around like in freelancer and shoot stuff. But boarding capital ships is pretty broken. Often your marines will all die while you're following the instructions perfectly with no explanation.

    Bottom line: this game has the potential to be great, but it needs another year of quality development time before it'll be worth the money.    … Expand
  88. gamiseta
    Dec 27, 2013
    2
    This game is a nice shoot 'em up or a nice arcade game, you know with sticks and buttons and everything. If you are looking for a game in which you can pilot a giant spaceship with all those functions, technical gibberish and stuff you have to try another game. The space simulator you are looking for is at another castle. Nice graphics though but I think that's it.
  89. Zhorick
    Dec 9, 2013
    4
    I'm not an X series fan. I like it, played almost every game, but I don't have much time to dive deep in the universe. But I liked them. X series was a solid space sim. I think best in the genre. Until X Rebirth.
    I've waited it. They released it full of bugs. Ok, I can wait. I never blame any game for launch-time bugs. It happens, no big deal. So they fixed the majority of game-killing    I'm not an X series fan. I like it, played almost every game, but I don't have much time to dive deep in the universe. But I liked them. X series was a solid space sim. I think best in the genre. Until X Rebirth.
    I've waited it. They released it full of bugs. Ok, I can wait. I never blame any game for launch-time bugs. It happens, no big deal. So they fixed the majority of game-killing bugs and I started to play.
    And I got to say it's rather enjoyable. Beautiful space. Very detailed, nice graphics. Everything ends up in the first station. All interiors are awful. Very low detail, poor textures, character models from early 2000s. Why did they do that? Why they add this piece of ugliness in such a beautiful game? For what reason? And it would be ok if station walks were optional. But you have to dock to station to find job applicant or items trader. I guess in X Rebirth universe they forgot what internet is. Station walks is number one that makes this game bad. Looting the lockers? Is it a bad joke? I have my own spaceship and I need to run the station and crawl the vents to steal some credits or a space suit? Talking with people? Hmm, that makes sense. Until they repeat the same dialogue ten times.
    The second thing that kills the game is it's console origin. Every second you will realize that it's a badly ported console game. Controls, menus, interface, everything is for gamepad, not keyboard. I have more than a hundred keys and I still need to go to menu to switch HUD mode. And no free look. Of course, how can you implement free look on a gamepad? So you sit in your chair with lots of controls and screens in your spaceship and you can only look in front of you.
    Anyways, the game is fun if you will never visit stations. But you can't.
    I still think they can improve the game. If they only make station walks optional and make separate interface for console and PC versions the game will become playable and rather fun. Even with other minor issues like primitive combat or lack of interaction options with NPCs. I hope they make station walks optional and remake the interface. But I doubt they will. But until then it's a waste of money. Don't buy it.    … Expand
  90. BMBender
    Nov 24, 2013
    3
    dis-regarding bugs witch can be fixed there are "issues" with this game that's supposedly a space SIMULATOR
    no radar
    No freelook No targeting commands Poor JStick/HOTAS support no effective wingaman commands No effective fleet commands Most ships are placeholders flying in one big infinite loop interacting with nothing. No true player ship customization No true dynamic    dis-regarding bugs witch can be fixed there are "issues" with this game that's supposedly a space SIMULATOR
    no radar
    No freelook
    No targeting commands
    Poor JStick/HOTAS support
    no effective wingaman commands
    No effective fleet commands
    Most ships are placeholders flying in one big infinite loop interacting with nothing.
    No true player ship customization
    No true dynamic economy(contrary to what is stated in PR pieces)

    If your looking for a space sim or an X-game look elsewhere it aint here    … Expand
  91. orindoomhammer
    Dec 9, 2013
    1
    I have put 49 hours into this game. Why? because I wanted to give it a fair chance, 49 hrs and many patches later i still wish it was better. You can argue and fuss all you want about the game but its mini game hell strung together with a pretty background and some interesting sounds and music. But even that doesn't help, its buggy sure but that is not the problem, They tried to make theI have put 49 hours into this game. Why? because I wanted to give it a fair chance, 49 hrs and many patches later i still wish it was better. You can argue and fuss all you want about the game but its mini game hell strung together with a pretty background and some interesting sounds and music. But even that doesn't help, its buggy sure but that is not the problem, They tried to make the game more engaging but they devastated it by adding way way too many features that shouldn't have been in there in the first place.

    Let me explain, as an avid X3 fan I enjoyed the space sim sure it was a bit hard to get the hang of and fighting in that game was ridiculously hard and pointless but i played it for the trading and what not anyway. This game feels like it is trying to follow Freelancer but failed because it tried to toss in a Mario party level of mini games that were mostly broken. Sure running around in stations sounds fun until you realise you have to do it for just about everything from upgrading your ship to buying drones and repairing your other ships, you have to put ships into your personal wing in order to do anything. thats right every ship you own goes into your wing and follows you around the universe as you explore fight and trade, the mini game for finding wrecks are more profitable than large scale trading as the goods you find are generally worth way way more and only take a few min to hunt down a couple million worth.

    The game is rough for a finished game and that doesn't bother me as thats what they do now days take your money give you a busted product and fix it over the next 6 months in most cases and i suspect thats what is going to happen here with X:R they are working on it and it has received tons of patches but honestly the game needs more work than patches as its horribly designed with the mini games and combat taking the foreground to anything else in the game, when it was released combat was the only thing that actually worked well, and I like it they brought back the freelancer feel with the games combat mechanics the ships even behave mostly the same so its not overly challenging for me as a vet of freelancer, not like the combat system in x3 anyway.

    I was optimistic that the stupid design decisions wouldn't get in the way of the game, when i was waiting eagerly for it and sadly they did from the beginning i found the mini games pretty annoying, if i wanted to play a game full of mini games id dig out my wii and play Mario party. I tried really really hard to like this game and i do somewhat for some of the things it got right like combat and pretty space backgrounds with decent sound and music to accompany it. but sadly i don't like it enough to continue to play it even if the game gets patched to the more stable state that its working towards.    … Expand
  92. bosh-tet
    Dec 21, 2013
    1
    Graphics are shockingly poor, ships and stations are all one copy-pasted location, the NPC characters are hideous (see Gamespot review for piccies) and the game is STILL impossible to complete in a legitimate way despite 20 patches to date. Fought for a refund from Steam for this one. Avoid. 1 point for the ship vistas in space.
  93. IceBlood
    Dec 31, 2013
    1
    Awful game where even the game engine is half made and broken. The UI is horrible, graphics is 10 years behind average and game is full of bugs. I WAS a huge fan of X-series and I have all the previous games from X-BTF. X Rebirth is just unplayable, unfinished and bad designed game. It feels more scam than finished game. I have no idea what Egosoft did during the 7 developing years but IAwful game where even the game engine is half made and broken. The UI is horrible, graphics is 10 years behind average and game is full of bugs. I WAS a huge fan of X-series and I have all the previous games from X-BTF. X Rebirth is just unplayable, unfinished and bad designed game. It feels more scam than finished game. I have no idea what Egosoft did during the 7 developing years but I believe they did everything else than code for this game.… Expand
  94. Ultizer
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    Don't buy this game
    It's very unfinished, full of bugs & is crashing left right & center.
    it's also clearly designed for consoles, they are using PC gamers to beta test so when they launch the console version it''s polished & bug free

    Sony won't let them release such an unfinished game, so get beta testing PC gamers so they can release it on PS4 all ready, or don't buy it
  95. Kahm83
    Nov 15, 2013
    0
    A very disappointing title.
    The graphics are extremely outdated, yet use a lot of resources. Don't get me wrong, it runs fluidly on my hardware but just looks crappy.
    This game is a serious downgrade from previous X games. I have no idea what exactly they have been doing the last couple of years. I have seen games done by modders that look better. I am actually uninstalling it as we    A very disappointing title.
    The graphics are extremely outdated, yet use a lot of resources. Don't get me wrong, it runs fluidly on my hardware but just looks crappy.
    This game is a serious downgrade from previous X games. I have no idea what exactly they have been doing the last couple of years. I have seen games done by modders that look better.
    I am actually uninstalling it as we speak and going back to X3 Terran Conflict.
    DO NOT BUY this game, if you are interested in the X series look into the X3 games. They are well made (well at least compared to X Rebirth) and fun.    … Expand
  96. Cmo-Money
    Nov 16, 2013
    0
    This game has awesome potential. There's so much you can do, the possibilities are endless. The game is beautiful and I can really get into the RP aspect. That being said, the campaigns bugs are GAME RUINING. So bad...

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

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

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

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

    Selling this as a "game" is simply deceiving consumers and should be prosecuted by law. It is seriously so broken.    … Expand
  98. Starwolf_N
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    I think I have played played most space exploratory/trade games released since Elite on C64. I have liked avery other X-game. But this one fails misserably on most fields. The only forgiving feature is space. The graphics there is just great. But great graphics doesn't make great games. great content does. Inuitive interface does, tools to help you navigate your environment does.
    I just    I think I have played played most space exploratory/trade games released since Elite on C64. I have liked avery other X-game. But this one fails misserably on most fields. The only forgiving feature is space. The graphics there is just great. But great graphics doesn't make great games. great content does. Inuitive interface does, tools to help you navigate your environment does.
    I just can't wrap my head around the need to search and scan space stations for trade points. If you have goods to sell you better make it easy to find. it is like a compartmentalized mall. If you want to trade that stuff you need to exit, walk across the parking lot and you'll find a entrance behind the smelly dumpster. Any sensible station designer would make a single entry point i.e. a large hangar visible miles away.
    There is too many things in this game that does not make sense and I will not repeat them here as they have been mentioned by numberous other on both Steam and Egosofts own forums. Skip this and wait for Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen. If you can't wait. Buy or go back to one of the previous X-games. They are all very good to great.    … Expand
  99. plchung3
    Nov 17, 2013
    0
    This is just ridiculous. The game is obviously unfinished and untested and EGOSOFT just releases it to recover the financial loss. I have played the previous X3 TC and X Rebirth is no way comparable to it.
  100. seevee
    Dec 3, 2013
    2
    The game has a tremendous amount of potential, and I can think of nothing like it other than other games in the X series. Unfortunately, it is profoundly broken, to an extent that makes it clear that egosoft was aware that they were releasing a broken product for full price. Basically, they were scamming their fans. There is real potential here, egosoft was trying something novel, whichThe game has a tremendous amount of potential, and I can think of nothing like it other than other games in the X series. Unfortunately, it is profoundly broken, to an extent that makes it clear that egosoft was aware that they were releasing a broken product for full price. Basically, they were scamming their fans. There is real potential here, egosoft was trying something novel, which is why they don't get a 0. The product is so fatally flawed, buggy, and misguided that I will never purchase another egosoft product and I demanded my money back. Avoid it, or pirate it if you're a die-hard, but don't give them a cent.… Expand
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 24 out of 24
  1. IGN Italia
    Feb 18, 2014
    40
    Rebirth lacks inspiration, purpose, good ideas. It's riddled with bugs and, even when it seems to work, it manages to be dull. There isn't any true reason to play it.
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  2. CD-Action
    Feb 10, 2014
    30
    Instead of giving the series a new life the developers buried it and the patches are a classic case of ‘too little, too late’. There’s a lot of things you can forgive this game but not the fact that it’s boring. [02/2014, p.58]
  3. PC Gamer
    Jan 31, 2014
    39
    X misses the spot. The occasional bit of spectacle can't save this boring, broken and charmless space simulation. [March 2014, p.60]
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