Control: If you do not Gamepad, the title may be the same on the shelf. The joystick support is extremely deficient. Even if you are traveling only with mouse and keyboard will have no joy of the game
Performance: I have a i5 @ 4.2 GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a Radeon 6870. Although the game only uses DX9, you have to use a 64-bit operating system. Why is beyond me, because with my setup I get when switched edge activation at 1920 x 1200 at 30 FPS. One should actually can use 8x antialiasing because the jaggies are even with 4x AA still very ugly.
Crashes: There may be a catch at any time. Time you are caught in a menu, sometimes it crashes when leaving a "highways". On average, it crashes again from within 1-2 hours. With F5 you can always perform a fast save, but there is a good likelihood that the score is after defective and you have to start at 0 again. Rarely have I seen in 30 years as immature software product.
Stations: You can land at the stations. However, there is no landing sequence and end up manually does not work! What shoud that? As already lost a lot of atmosphere. The stations themselves remind me of artwork that was 15 years ago modern. Always the same structure, always the same, boring textures. Extremely ugly is still an understatement. For this purpose it breaks even flow of the game. Boring running around in drab stations, which makes depressed. there does not help the occasional mini-games that you talk to an NPC and the right moment to click this to vote "well disposed". When one creates (Can my 90 year old grandma), obtained a few percentage points discount. In addition, you can with impunity loot chests and cabinets. But the stuff you can not sell anywhere, but I need to find a dealer who accepts the goods. Coronation: The same old station building, the boxes can be found at every station at the same location. Who has done this once, will do that probably never again. Here one wonders: What is this?
Menus: Fully missraten is an understatement. Originally Egosoft probably wanted to hold a controller compatible with XBOX and Playstation. Here an extremely umtändliche and bugged control has come out. This one has not found it necessary to test this also. So it can happen that you get stuck in a menu item and load the last savegame must. Whenever I absorbed a detailed information, I can not control my ship, but it is done the same and always boring animation, like a ship in Holobildschirm aufploppt. The cards are completely useless and even not work properly. When I open the map and would like to see a station detaisl, the double is not working. Oh that I could now extend even to many other menu operations. It is a disaster and I wonder what they did the last 7 years.
Setting: Does it best not in German. The Syncronsprecher are not lippensyncron and extremely boring. The English are not much better, but they work at least. The ship's computer in German is called Betty. Apparently he speaks only with our technician. For us this will remain silent. If you look a Enzyklopädieintrag, in English the text is read always, in German mostly not. Here extreme was saved.
Missions: There is a story mission. This is to time but only partially playable. Because after a few first steps you have to make a deal. This often does not succeed, which is once again at the bad control. Only with the help of the Internet to solve currently. For this you can still accept free jobs to the stations. Unfortunately, I have this reputation with a faction so spoiled that I had to stop with the story mission. At no time we were told that this can habenn negative impact, so then you have to start all over again.
Now we come to the only positives: space. huge stations, which also look pretty good, explosions that look really good. Spekatuklär done differently, but I can here give a good score. Again, I give back anyway deductions because of my own ship, there is no external view. Also, I can not see my hard-won upgrades. During the campaign I can not replace it with a better my ship. Here probably the red pencil was also scheduled to start selling the game more quickly before Christmas can.
My recommendation: Look, if this shitload is (which I doubt) the game earlier than in half a year to have been eliminated to defects. Maybe make a few modders the game still usable. Worse still is => here I can not imagine.
