Elite Dangerous
Elite Dangerous I've been curious to see what the next gen offering was going to be like but I was dubious as to venture down this path due to the fact it remains a online game at all playable hours but I thought I've got access to the net and I'll be brave and play the online solo play and get over all my quires as it was intriguing me no end. Well after spending a few days with Elite I can safely say that everything that the original held is here and the formula hasn't changed get given a mission to deliver some data or a containment of materials. there's nothing more to be said other than do a mission or if you play multiplayer have a dog fight in space but the universe is holding up to 400 billion stars and planets so nothing's ever the same if you like ranking up in the academy and enjoy the feeling of making it to a space station alive and been able to deliver the goods and jetting of to another solar system to run more errands then you've got the classic game of the original but with great graphics and a brilliant atmosphere. On record Elite may look daunting but in practice it isn't you've basically got to place the order travel to your destination and deliver. Some people could spend a life time doing this, I'm slowly getting hooked on the intergalactic market. It has a expansion pack called Horizons which enables you to use transport on the planets surface and collect minerals and other specimens, but we'll look at that in the future. Traveling can be accessed through a galaxy map and have your destinations marked and then given the fastest route to the space station your heading to. There's also unexplored areas that you can discover and find rare materials so there's also that benefit to space travel looking for new things. But the more missions you do the more pulled in you become in the system that's running in the galaxy. There's a huge online multi player following with people helping each other out on missions. There's even one group of players that will come to your aid if you run out of fuel. Overall Elite is a highly addictive game where you'll lose hours trading and travelling in this vast universe, graphically it's top notch stuff with a brilliant score to put you in the mood.
Review By Oliver Staley
9 (Great)
