X2: The Threat

This game the best in X series for me today. I play over 600 hours in X2. Wait and hope X4 Foundations be better than X Rebirth.

I knew about X2 The Threat (X2 La Amenaza), I found it in a tobacconist that was sold with the Micromanía magazine, it is one of the X games that I have had a certain nostalgia and affection for. It was a great revolution both in the graphic engine and in its game mechanics, it was one of the first X games, in being able to pilot capital ships of all classes of the different races, the plot is one of the best I have played.

Beautiful music. Beautiful ships. Graphics still look excellent, particularly the particle effects from the fusion drives (ship engines). Nine ship classes (Scout, Light Fighter, Heavy Fighter, Corvette, Destroyer, Carrier plus three Transport ships) for each of seven races (five 'friendly' plus two completely hostile alien races) makes about 60 distinct ship designs... and they are very distinct. The Capital ships (Destroyer, Carrier and Station Transporter) can each carry dozens of smaller ships themselves. On top of this, you have a full interdependent resource system based on a Base Resource (Energy cells), Unprocessed Foods/Minerals (e.g. Wheat, Beef, Silicon produced from Energy Cells), Processed Foods (e.g. Burgers produced from Wheat, Beef and Energy Cells) and finally Complex Tech (e.g. Lasers, Shields produced from Burgers, Ore/Silicon and Energy). And you can even own your own Stations making all of the above, and assign your own ships to buy needed resources or sell the end product. Or you could spend your time on missions: - scout missions helping people make appointments, - emergency trade missions (needing a variety of ships) where you rush cargo to a nearby sector, - assassination missions (OMG they are so much fun) - tourism tours... sounds dull but those tourists love a side trip into a hostile alien sector! - and the grandaddy of them all... Invasion missions where alien capital ships swarm through the sector you've pledged to defend. Better than X3 cos: - when you dock you actually navigate through the interior of a space station to find a docking bay. - the ship designs are far more varied and gorgeous, - the ships have a higher range of speeds.

Nice ships, relative compact world nice stations. Yes old graphics engine but nice design. But this ver. is missing solarity diference and ability to upgrade player space suit.

-runs on DX8 -neither keybinds nor mouse sensitivity can be changed in-game and only 3 keys can be changed via the launcher -no mouse cursor in menus -obnoxiously unintuitive default keybinds