About This Game X-Tension is the eagerly awaited expansion pack to X: Beyond the Frontier. The expansion is not limited by a linear plot line but makes use of new ways to expand your empire. You can now take part in missions that are offered to you throughout the game.FeaturesMore Ships - You are no longer limited to one ship, but can now buy and pilot all fighters and small transports in the game. As well as capturing new Pirate ships. Expanded Universe - The universe has also been expanded with over 40 new sectors to visit, trade and fight inside, allowing you to find new locations to build new stations and trade in new goods. The Version 2 Update - The release of the 2.0 upgrade expanded the game even further allowing you to pilot the larger TL class freighter.Continue your quest to explore the universe, trade in over 90 sectors, with over 50 goods, upgrade your ship with dozens of wares available to you by 5 unique alien races and protect yourself from the hostile Xenon. 7aa9394dea Title: X: TensionGenre: Simulation, StrategyDeveloper:EgosoftPublisher:EgosoftRelease Date: 1 Jun, 2000 X: Tension Download Licence Key I can't get the game to work properly. First and second launches crashed. I tried compatibility mode and it launched, but it will only play in windowed mode and the graphics are so terrible that I can't make out whats written on the screen. Moving on I guess.. i stopped doing crack after i gotten addicted to this game. 8.5\/10. more of the same as X BTF trading trading trading. Game starts off slow..however once one starts trading goods in an upgraded ship and adding on needed ship upgrades itbecomes addictive. Like the first X Beyond the Frontier, starts slow then it is up to you to do what you want.If you like action, then you'll have to find the fight and like real time everything cost money. Don't cheat it really takes awayfrom the game.Yep! No real story line just do you thing, what ever that may be.. You\u2019re placed in a sandbox universe free to do as you please; bounty hunter, pirate, trader, station manager\u2026Often feels empty and lacking content, has frustrating keyboard controls, simple AI, has poor support for mice so a joystick is a must but despite that it\u2019s quite fun.. I didn't buy this game on steam, I bought the boxed version as soosn as I could get my hands on it. X-Tension (be sure you have the V2.0 upgrrade. is more than an addon it's really a new version of X-Beyond the Frontier. And the game it always should have been. It's a true open world sandbox game where you can fly any ship in the game from shuttle to Carrier. It is also the game where the X series hit it's peak as far as I'm concerned. X2 had a different Manga type style Ididn't like and they stopped giving every ship it's own interior. And starting with X 3 they done away with interiors at all. It spoiled the atmosphere for me. X-Tension V2 is old now, but much like Morrowind in the elder scrolls series, it still stands out.. umm, no idea on how to even start the game correctly i think, let alone how to use controls :\/. A truly amazing game..... has everything that gamer may want from a sci-fi game. Provides the best gaming experience ever. I do not have enough words to describe it.. As a matter of full disclosure I've been playing this game (on and off) for around 17 years. I tried X2 and didn't like it; I haven't tried any of the X3 games yet either so my review is based solely on the X-Tension gameplay and not the progression of the series.All that said; I love this game and always have. I like the fact that you have the flexibility to fly around in almost any ship you choose (or at least can afford) and I like the fact that you can run a small empire of ships and stations as you see fit. I love the open world model of the game (I never played the XbtF storyline anyway) and that your choices, while consequential, are not linear. There's no 'good' and 'bad', just alignment with the various factions in their space.There are some downsides. The game feels very isolated in that you don't have station based interactions. You're always in the cockpit of your ship, not hanging in a bar or some other location on the bases, like you would in Freelancer or Privateer. The property management system is text and keyboard based and takes a while to navigate around to what you really want to do. Right-click, tree structured context sensitive menus would have come in really handy here. Mind you, when you understand the system well enough, you can do almost everything you want. That said, the navsat requirement to control any resources in system is an unnecessary complication that makes no sense. Far better to make your property menu accessible in all sectors straight off the bat. Speaking of which, having some of your ships just 'disappear' from your property screen because they're going through systems you haven't personally visited yet is confusing and very frustrating. It would be far better not to allow your owned ships to travel through sectors you haven't 'discovered' yet at all. Otherwise you're never sure if you've lost them for real.The one thing I used to love about this game was the on-line community. In 2001 at least, it was very active in the old THQ forum and the game almost felt like the modern MMOs like EVE Online, only you would never see your friends whizzing by in their ships. I don't know what the modern forum is like (because I wasn't allowed to preserve my Acid handle between forums) but if it's even half as good then it would still be a great group of people to hang out with.The thing I always liked about this game was the open world feel and the way you could amass a fleet of ships to fly, including a large transport. You never got into the battleships and the like, but the TL class boats could act as de facto carriers anyway, so that was pretty good. I lost interest in upgrading after X2, which (like a lot of MOO clones) thought that adding complexity added richness, which it doesn't. X-Tension got the balance right IMHO, although I'd be interested in knowing sometime if any of the X3 games went back to that formula. That said, I'm still playing X-Tension after all these years. That should tell you something about how playable the game really is.
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