X: Beyond the Frontier
Egosoft · Egosoft · Released 1999-07-01
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6.6
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Available onPC
Egosoft · Egosoft · Released 1999-07-01
Metascore
critics
User score
players
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again. 500 Years later Kyle Brennan starts his journey by piloting an experimental ship equipped with a new piece of technology allowing it to cross vast distances on its own. However it malfunctions and traps him in a group of sectors inhabited by Aliens, hunted and with no way home, this is his story of survival... Beyond the Frontier... X: Beyond The Frontier is the first part in the X-Universe series of games developed by Egosoft. It tells the story of mankind's rise and fall in the universe, and the attempt by Kyle Brennan to help repopulate the stars using a new ship called the Experimental Shuttle, and how he became trapped in a closed group of sectors linked by a series of jumpgates, owing credits to an alien for helping to save him, and hunted by several people. Unknowingly, a group of secret service people are after him, a group who have tried to hide their races secret, that they are the descendants of a group of Humans who saved earth from the Terraformer fleet they created to help colonise the universe. Now with the Truth coming out, X: Beyond the Frontier allows the player to play as Kyle Brennan on his hunt to find a way home, whilst helping a group of people find the truth about their ancestry, and continue to help save earth from the Terraformers who are now known as the Xenon. Features • Trade - Trade in over 50 sectors, with over 50 different goods, upgrade you ships with dozens of upgrades available to you by 5 different races. • Fight - Find the location of the hostile pirates and survive against attacks by the Xenon. • Build - Construct stations to build your own production empire. • Think - Adapt your trading empire to suit the needs of each sectors local economy.
| Requirements | |
|---|---|
| OS | Windows 95 or higher |
| Processor | Pentium II 200 MHz |
| Memory | 32 MB RAM |
| Graphics | 4 MB DirectX-compliant video card |
| DirectX® | DirectX 7.0 or higher |
| Hard Drive | 360 MB hard-disk space |
| Sound | DirectX-compliant sound card |
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X: Beyond the Frontier was developed and published by Egosoft.
X: Beyond the Frontier was released on 1999-07-01.
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X: Beyond the Frontier takes approximately 1 hours to complete the main story.
