X Rebirth: Home of Light Complete Edition

I played all X games X-tensively including all the X-tended versions and seeing the reviews of X Rebirth made me very sad. I didn't touch it until it was drastically reduced here with version 4.0 and the two expansions. I have to say, I am positively surprised. It's certainly a different game, which is what they tried, but not as different as I would have thought. They did a very underwhelming job explaining a couple of features, you regularly get stuck within stations are capital ships, and you would think a group of 2 destroyers would a) take on a distillery and b) fly to that thing and open fire and not cruise around the perimeter, leisurely shooting at it once or twice and taking a grand tour after each attempt to hit an immoble target,....but overall I have sunk typical X game amount of time into it and I am still enjoying it. Definitely recommend purchase.

like the title says, it has way too many bugs, and i got to edit the save game only to be able to proceed in the campaign. Too bad, i was a great fan of x series

Still not impressed. after going through the entire series up till x3 terran conflict, i can just say erase and redo properly. 1: going from having about 65 different ships to pilot now you are stuck in 1 ship and it isn't even a good one. 2: Monotonous tasks running back and forth to different ships sending them on missions when I want to go on the missions. 3: Graphics compared to x3 terran conflict... just appaling. Do not purchase this if you liked x3 you will be sorely dissapointed.

I believe this game is somewhat of a Egosoft's attempt to bring something fresh to a franchise. While it is obviously not a stellar sucess, it makes many steps in right direction, but unfortunately also makes some very bad ones and especially so in regards to its predecessors, which is it's single greatest sin. It is now tweaked and patched and a lot better than it was, but it still remains what I consider an important, milestone, but yet not really sucessful experiment. The bad: buggy, tedious, interface-ally confusing and frustrating, AI is sometimes downright ridiculous (autopilot, NPC navigation). It can be very repetitive on many different levels. Trading is not what it should be in essence, yet there are two paralel trading systems (cargo and personal)?? Many station and NPCs are feeling very generic. Mini games are repetitive and boring. Various aspects of game are not balanced, etc, etc.. The good: feeling of presence in the universe is fantastic. Graphically it's very good. Ship finally have believable cockpit; entering and looking around the ship now looks like you are really there (instruments, copilot, sounds) Stations are gigantic and are teeming with life and traffic. Ships are more detailed than ever. Boarding mechanics feels there is always a prize in carefully planning battles with capital ships. There are rare and hidden missions and items to find. Conclusion: I did very much enjoy Rebirth in the end. If in next X game developer keeps all mentioned good things, but instead of many dubious experimental stuff which was not received well at all put instead more effort in variety and content (more story, plots, missions, situation templates, ships and ways and paths to upgrade them, not mentioning different NPCs, their faces and roles, and interaction with them), than maybe Rebirth could be observed as a birth of something more than a hit and miss experiment it is viewed as now.

Never played a game with more complex sandbox economy and freedom to do whatever you want. Great game if you install some of the available mods which make life easier. It is a hard game with a steep learning curve and the campaign is basically a tutorial. This is not really a typical space sim, it's really about the sandbox. Some things are annoying like repetitive voiceovers but there are mods for eveyrthing to customize your experience. Imho the best space game around with the most freedom of choice.