PC GAMES FREE DOWNLOAD AND REVIEW: Elite: Dangerous Review

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Elite: Dangerous Review

COMING SOON!!!!!

David Braben is finally to make the Elite sequel everyone has been patiently waiting for since Frontier: First Encounters came along in 1995 and didn't work properly. With crowdfunded millions and possibly more from investors, this could be the starbound successor people have longed for. In the months since its rather sparse announcement, Braben and co. have released some promising videos and screenshotsthat indicate they’re on the right track. Between this and Star Citizen, it seems we may be heading for a new golden age of space sims.

If you crowdfunded Elite: Dangerous, there’s a chance you now have access to its alpha version - head here for the full details. The rest of us will have to make do with this impressive ship battle trailer.

Elite: Dangerous is a forthcoming space trading and combat simulator that represents the fourth installment in the Elite video game series. Having been unable to agree to a funding deal with a publisher for many years, the developers crowdfunded the project through a Kickstarter campaign. The Windows version is due to be released at the end of 2014, with a Mac OS version three months later.

Elite: Dangerous retains the basic premise of previous games - players start with a spaceship and a small amount of money and make their own way in an open galaxy, furthering themselves either legally or illegally, through trading, bounty-hunting, piracy and assassination. Braben has described the game as a mix of the original Elite and Frontier, describing it as closer to Frontier in terms of the way that the galaxy works, but with the "visceral and seat-of-the-pants" combat of the original Elite.

Elite: Dangerous features a massively multiplayer, persistent universe, here a development video showing Braben dodging enemy fire from a colleague, and the actions of players will affect the wider galaxy within the game.

The creators have often noted how the previous games lend themselves naturally to modern online gaming - for example, destroying an innocent ship has always led to a criminal record and to police attention in systems rich enough to afford law enforcement, which would provide a powerful anti-griefing mechanism in a multiplayer game.The developers have also considered allowing players to play within small, trusted groups, so that any in-game encounters are only drawn from that group.

Elite: Dangerous will be set around 50 years after the events of Frontier: First Encounters, and the Thargoids, the insectoid aliens from the original game, are due to make an appearance.

Elite: Dangerous System Requirements