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Geek Culture / X2 The Threat (Looks like a New Elite Game..Costs £7,00)

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 19:06 Edited at: 23rd Mar 2006 19:08
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Just thought I would post this for Elite fans, because I know there are a lot of them on here.

X2 The Threat is £7:00 at Morrisons. It has been obviously copied from Elite, and is quite good. I think that you have to have played the original Elite to enjoy this, because it has not moved on all that much. It has nice graphics, but not todays high graphics standard. Everything in fact looks Half-Life 1 standard, so if you fancy Elite slightly updated, with Half Life style graphics then you can buy it for £7,00.

Pincho.

Edit: Oh, and there is now an X3!!!

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Raven
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 19:13
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X: Beyond The Frontier, X2: The Theat and X3: Reunion are all kinda... well crap. Don't get me wrong it's a good game that is trying to clone elite.

Problem is the controls are far too complicated, it takes ages to get into the game to begin with and you need a manual the size of a phone directory just to get to grips with it.

I'm just waiting for a real challenger to the Elite universe to come along.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 19:15
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I have X2. It is very good, they developers must have spent a helluva lot of time mapping it all out... but...

IT'S BORING ENOUGH TO MAKE ZOMBIES BORED!

And, the fact that a station is cheaper than some small ships... WHAT!?


At least farting ferrets are better than stinky stoats.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 19:31
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Elite was utter drivel. I hated it. So f'ing boring I nearly died.

Only the square kids with their BBC Micros played Elite. The rest of us kicked Galaxian ass.

Bite my shiny metal ass
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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 19:38
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yeah well in Elite You can kick a Galaxian ass then nick his watch, and sell it!!!

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Quote: " yeah well in Elite You can kick a Galaxian ass then nick his watch, and sell it!!!"

LOL

Elite was a great game...I still have a go on the old Amiga emu.
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Me!
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Elite was great (and all done in 1.44mb don`t forget), X2 is sucky, I have it, the controls stink and you can`t remap em, waste of money imo, privateer is open source and readily available now, much better game, as is Ur Quan Masters star control II, both now open source free downloads .



I don`t care what you say, theres no way the commander of a Kamakasi Squadron got promoted up through the ranks.
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Killswitch
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 21:06
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X2: The Threat is pretty boring - but it's still a good space empire game.

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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 21:13 Edited at: 23rd Mar 2006 21:14
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Quote: "Elite was great (and all done in 1.44mb"


1.44MB?! You could get like 46 copies of Elite running in that!

Not one of them would be any fun mind you.

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correction, fitted on a 1.44mb floppy, and I was thinking of Elite II, which was graphicaly a huge improvement over the hidden wireframes in Elite, plusthey made some improvements in gameplay (I forgot my first copy was on a Spectrum, all 48k of it).



I don`t care what you say, theres no way the commander of a Kamakasi Squadron got promoted up through the ranks.
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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2006 21:24 Edited at: 23rd Mar 2006 21:24
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Elite was best on the C64. It was solid 3D, and the response was just right. Elite II was not very good IMO. X2 is my Elite 2.

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I couldn't stand Elite either... Freespace was good, but with all aircraft/spacecraft 3D games, the AI for the enemies is poor, and you just end up going around and around in circles.

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Elite is around 50KB
Elite Plus is around 70KB
Elite 2 : Frontier is around 720KB
Frontier : First Encounter is either 1.2MB or 480MB, it has built-in video blah blah ... god FE was s**t.

Elite was cool, but yeah it could get boring after a while; as you'd find basically all you did was fight.
Elite 2 was far better for everything else, but the whole 'realism' factor killed the space battles.

I still think they're both great games, especially given they were all coded in assembly; which is quite remarkable considering.
Personally do hope that Elite 4 is actually reasonable.

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I have X2, it came with my video card for free. I probably would never buy that game, but all in all its pretty fun. The graphics are not so hot and run poorly, and the gameplay is a little slow, but its cool. It takes along time to get into the game. Longer than it should.

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Picked up a copy second hand a few months back. I would complain about the controls but my copy came with some kind of fold-out keyboard diagram thing that you could look at while playing. Okay so it wasn't easy to get to grips with, but I don't suppose flying a spaceship would be easy to get to grips with.

I gave up on it about a week later though, there was nothing wrong with the game (imo) I'm just easily bored.

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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 23:29
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There are a lot of keys to learn. The missions sort of take this into account, and are based on a few key presses at a time.

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The keys are daunting at first, but after a few days my fingers flew over them just fine, Just gotta get used to it. They aren't too bad actually.

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