IGDB / 9316

X: Beyond the Frontier

1999 53 / 100 Simulator Strategy

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.

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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...

GameplayExploration StructureSandbox GameplayCombat-focused GenreSimulator GenreStrategy Theme4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) ThemeAction ThemeOpen world

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ThemeSandbox ThemeScience fiction Traitaliens Traiteconomy Traitexploration Traitfuturistic Traitspace Traitspace battle Traitspace combat Traitspace exploration Traitspaceship Traitterraforming Traittrading

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Developer: Egosoft
Publisher: Egosoft, THQ
Franchise: Standalone

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Modi: Single player
Perspective: First person, Third person
Themes: 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), Action, Open world, Sandbox, Science fiction

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PC (Microsoft Windows) Oct 08, 2010
PC (Microsoft Windows) Jan 26, 2000
PC (Microsoft Windows) Jul 01, 1999

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