The full depth space trade/combat sim fans have been waiting for since Elite
First thing: if you're a Freelancer fan, you might just stop reading this immediately.
Second: if you want immediate action, thousands of free ammo, millions in cash after fifteen minutes of gameplay, forget X3 right now.
Third: if you like games that offer a very modular structure, a great online community and third party developments; games that have extremely vast territories to explore, wide ranges of vehicle types and even more choice in equipment/upgrades to get familiar with; custom style of gameplay, be it trade, combat, resource harvesting, police duty, piracy, theft, to name a few; then you could possibly be very happy with X3: Reunion.
There are different game start status which you can choose from, along with difficulty levels. Some will grant you more money from the very start, some will provide you with better reputation. But you can be sure that you won't control the universe in one day, nor a month, even in the easiest selection of all modes available.
Take the time to enter the ultra-vast universe of X3, earn some money, and you could do such things as:
- build stations, which can be factories (producing a wide range of goods, from ore to high-tech weapons), trading docks and more
- connect stations together to make complexes
- buy, equip and command whole fleets of armed ships (light fighters to interstellar destroyers, capable of hostig other ships) and gigantic cargo transporters
- buy, install and run software plugins for your fleet ships computers, allowing you to automate their behaviour in many different fashions
- use the features offered in the "Bonus Pack", available from the developer's website, which adds a whole series of new exciting functions to the original title.
This list is far from complete. A treasure awaits anyone who cares trying to find out what this title is all about.