I started feeling more comfortable using key shortcuts at this point. It’s a steep learning curve and can feel daunting at first, luckily after playing it a while it starts to make sense and the buttons all became second nature. There’s plenty of assigned buttons that do all sorts of things. It’s frustrating, but it shouldn’t be because it could be avoided. God if only I’d read that part before I got to buy stuff. A little bar at the bottom moves to show you are doing this. After reading the manual it seems you have to press left and right to move objects onto your ship. I was clicking everywhere, looking for buy buttons and doing other stuff like pulling my hair out. I didn’t know how to buy something from a trade station until I read the manual. Because you only get a handle on the combat, all the other things that you can do, and that’s a lot, aren’t explained. It would also help players who have never played it before, like me. The training really could have done with a section on the main menu instead where you could select topics that you would like to have training in. I found out that I could speed time up if I pressed J, something the game doesn’t alert you to in the training. It tells you some of them, but a few you will have to look up. The training requires you to know a little bit about the controls, so you need to figure them out by looking in the manual or in the options menu. The thing is that little tips flash in the top right corner of the screen, but that still doesn’t help. The first thing the game offers to you is a training mode with one of the pilots that are flying around near you at the start. Depending who you selected determines where you start. As you beat the game more starter characters become unlocked for you to play as. They are four to select from at first, each with their own missions and difficulty. Starting as a character was one of the first things I did. Having a fresh adventure starts you out as a dude in a weak little ship and you have to build your reputation from the ground up. They don’t really have a personality they are just starting points for you to begin with. Choosing the characters is advised at first because you are given set tasks and missions to follow. When you click to start your new game you can either choose one of the characters that tell you parts of the plot or start your own adventure in a custom game. The reason why X3: Terran Conflict is so overwhelming is because there is so much that is accessible to you from the start. It’s good to have it on hand just in case. The manual will probably take a few reads for all the information to set in as it details pretty much all you need about the races, ships and other information. It is a space simulator after all, but I wasn’t expecting this amount of detail. The manual that comes with it is 118 pages and it’s all in English. It’s so overwhelming when you first get into it and that isn’t just the game as well. The manual has a nice little brief history for you to get indulged in if you’ve never played the games before.įor a newbie who had never played any of the series I was in for a big surprise when I cracked open the game. A new faction has come into play, the Terrans. It’s the year 2983 and Earth has been rediscovered by Julian Brennan, the main character from the last game. They follow a timeline and this is supposed to be the grand finale of the X series. The story in X3 is hard to summarise, as the game is part of a huge universe that other games in the series have supplied story towards. It’s a standalone expansion to 2005’s X3: Reunion and it is based in the same universe. X3: Terran Conflict is the latest edition to the X series. They usually feature a living colony where you can trade, do missions and build an empire. A simple description of X is that the game is a space simulator. X is a series of games developed by Egosoft. If you are like me then you won’t know much about the X franchise. I thought I’d get this across so you know where I am coming from. I have never played an X game in my life. Before I start off this review I just want to say that I have never played an X3 game in my life.
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