The game happens in real time, so if something is about to happen somewhere, it happens, whether you are there or not to reap the profit from wars, pandemics, famine or drought. You can do nearly anything you please in this game. The atmosphere was great, the game engine was excellent (for the time) and the universe was your oyster to explore and exploit. I sunk many, many hours trading medicines and other stuff between countless systems back in the days, building my one-man empire. It has some bugs, but those are hardly game-ruining, as long as you remember to save often.
An unpolished gem among the countless other mediocre games. Still this was one of the boldest computer game quantum leaps in history.
Especially when flying on planetary surface areas with detailed cities.Īnd once you started noticing all the bugs, and terrible AI, and poor ship combat, the amazment started to wane. You can now buy and sell ships, no longer are you stuck with the Cobra MkIII, there's more ships and weapons and ship systems/customisations than ever. You could now land on planetary bases! Even land rough on planetary surfaces! That's something that even "Elite Dangerous" (which was a ripoff to start with - David Braben turned scumbag without Ian Bell!) still does not do here in 2021 after seven years of continual improvement and DLCs! I couldn't believe the difference between this and previous Amiga Elite only five years earlier. The whole Milky Way on two disks? Jesus! And unlike the previous Elites it's using real star names (well ok, 99% of the galaxy beyond the 50-100ly neighbourhood around Sol was procedurely generated nonsense starnames like "Bucdontif" all over again), and fully populated realistic star systems with many planets and moons, and even sub moons, and asteroid belts, and multiple star systems, and proper spectral classes! No more nothing but single G-class stars with just one inhabited planet and one station as the only docking place. This was another of those "hello, this is next stage in game evolution" moments when I first saw it in 1994.
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