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X3: Terran Conflict (PC DVD-ROM) | 
| From: Deep Silver
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 658
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.9
EAN: 4020628503147
ASIN: B001E43MGA
Release Date: October 17, 2008
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 This is a BORING Elite November 21, 2008
I really wanted to like this game but it is the single dullest one I have ever played. You go from gate to gate to gate to gate dock undock, go speak to commander this or Lt this ... sigh...its very difficult to get into. I could not for the life of me work out how to trade and because there is no LIVE economy (playing against other players) its anyone guess if your getting a good deal or not. I havent been able to trade as yet and I have been playing for 3 hours.
I spent more time staring out of the living room window waiting for my ship to hyperdrive though gates than I did actually interacting with the game. Honestly if you liked elite this is PANTS compared to it. Waste of cash.
 Life sucking game. November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The return of the ultimate space strategy game.
This is my favourite game of all time, I built my first PC just so I could play X2 with maxxed graphics and had X3 TC on pre order for ages and I am not disappointed.
Yes there are bugs but any fan of the X universe knows they will get sorted in the end, indeed two patches in the first week.
There are the usual performance issues but my AMD 3800 dual core, 2 gig of ram and crippled AGP 7800 gs oc graphics card system displays it fine at 1600X1050 (21 inch widescreen).
And this is the key thing. I don't care if some missions are buggy or I can't play it on full settings this game is all about GAMEPLAY. I can do anything I want in this game fight, trade, steal, be a hero or a villain. And the buzz you get when you make an 800,000 profit or capture a much bigger opponent and sell or use his ship never fades.
Key Features
Huge sector map
Boarding Marines!
Much larger array of sub plots and missions
An awful lot of new ships
Very good manual
An example of why I love this game; I had been doing some subplot missions and had hired a transporters to take a station I had bought through a few sectors. I flew on ahead and in the next sector a couple of Xenon frigates had appeared and were trashing most of the sector. I was only in an M4 small fighter and not wanting to spend my savings of 36 million credits on a bigger ship I spent the next hour flying round picking up goodies that had been dropped by ships that had been whacked and wondering what to do. Just as I decided to give up and do something else a battle group from another race arrived. I parked up about 10 km away and watched a better space battle than you get in films!
Going to spend the next week saving 500 million for a couple of destroyers of my own then try laying waste to a Xenon sector. Forget any plots for a while.
Now that's GAMEPLAY
Just be prepared to play this for months and check the egosoft forums.
As good as PC games get November 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having played space trading/combat games all the way from the original Elite(showing my age!), I would say this is as good as PC games get. The graphics are excellent, the storyline so far is good, but the joy of this game for me is in the complexity. Yes, it is a steep learning curve at first. This is a truly massive game with virtually unlimited different paths you can take. You can't finish this in hours, you can't even finish it in days, it will keep you busy for months or longer! It's not perfect, there are some minor bugs but updates are pretty regular and there is an excellent forum. If you are looking for a game that is not just blasting away, a game that creates a whole other universe then this is it.
A TRUE EXPERIENCE November 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is what PC gaming is all about .... the whole atmospheric experience ...not dumbed down .. the effort to learn is repayed many times over ..If only all pc games had this much depth and excitement...just brilliant.
An outstanding achievement October 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the game, played it for 10 hours, gave up. A few days later, tried again, gave up. Time to look for another game. Or so I thought.
The on-line community for this game is wonderful, very civilised and helpful. The game appears to be a collaborative effort from forum members, modders and the devs. And it shows. Considering the vast complexity and huge number of ways to approach missions (and break them!) its amazing the game works as well as it does. In that respect X3TC is an outstanding achievement.
Newcomers: use the forum. This is essential. This is a very hard game to get into simply because of the mad number of choices you can make, ship types, weapons, loadouts, its an open universe, go anywhere you like, do anything you like, follow several story lines, leave them, return later, build or fight or think.
My advice, do some of the Terran plot, a few missions only up until you get the Argon Discoverer ship (used for remotely mapping sectors, in other words finding all objects in a given sector). Then go exploring, travel south, find a few hidden ships and jumpdrives, take on some fighting missions, make some cash, upgrade all your ships and weapons, buy a transport or 2, get your Argon Discoverer to map out your visited sectors, place some satellites in the interesting ones (they allow you to monitor stuff going on in these sectors remotely), then back to the Terran plot. Simple advice, possibly one of many approaches, but got me into the game.
Oh, and use the encyclopaedia !! I didn't know I had one for the first week. As you visit sectors the encyclopaedia updates with information from those sectors so you don't have to write down where you saw stuff. Wonderful, just wonderful.
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