First, one very important point, the ONLY puzzle in the game is in the (free) prologue. there are none in the maingame, thats so dissapointing... i cant see a reason why they did that. Since the day the Prologue came out I was looking forward so much to this awesome game. I love the art, the gameplay, the story in the prologue. But honestly, the Prologue is better then the maingame. The maingame is very short (5 hours if you play slow, includes the Prologue), but thats not the problem, there are some ways to play different some parts so you can play it a second time. The mainproblem is the story. While the prologue sets the tone for a epic masterpiece it really is the first 3 chapters of the game, of those 3, the prologe is the best chapter by far. its the only chapter with a puzzle AND with a different choice how to enter a building. After Act 2 it starts all of a sudden to turn into a mess, and even after the Epilogue chapter (where you for no reason all of a sudden control a different character) it makes no sense at all. Its so sad, because without that weird turnaround the story was really set to be great. In the end it didnt even matter at all what happened in the Prologue, they switched the story at one point to a different story and both storys did not finish, so you are just left with questions. A bad outcome for a short singleplayer game. It is really sad it turned out like this.
First, one very important point, the ONLY real puzzle in the game is in the (free) prologue. there are none in the maingame, thats so dissapointing... i cant see a reason why they did that. Since the day the Prologue came out I was looking forward so much to this awesome game. I love the art, the gameplay, the story in the prologue. But honestly, the Prologue is better then the maingame. The maingame is very short (5 hours if you play slow, includes the Prologue), but thats not the problem, there are some ways to play different some parts so you can play it a second time. The mainproblem is the story. While the prologue sets the tone for a epic masterpiece it really is the first 3 chapters of the game, of those 3, the prologe is the best chapter by far. its the only chapter with a puzzle AND with a different choice how to enter a building. After Act 2 it starts all of a sudden to turn into a mess, and even after the Epilogue chapter (where you for no reason all of a sudden control a different character) it makes no sense at all. Its so sad, because without that weird turnaround the story was really set to be great. In the end it didnt even matter at all what happened in the Prologue, they switched the story at one point to a different story and both storys did not finish, so you are just left with questions. A bad outcome for a short singleplayer game. It is really sad it turned out like this.
Its so far the best X4 game ever created in the world, i totaly love this game. But sinc ei have Windows 7 64bit i could only get it run on Virtual Mashine software or the Ugly looking DOSbox. So i bought it here hoping for a better release just to find out they sell here DOSboy, a freeware you can download free on the web, i really feel like i want my mone back.
