![]() ![]() The final part is landing on your assigned docking bay. Hold on, why is everyone firing at me….Ahh I forgot to get permission to dock…. The first part involves entering a small gap in the rotating station. The hardest thing in Elite for me has always been docking in a space station and here is no exception. It does get easier and becomes second nature after a short while in space I promise you that. The ship basically rotates, thrusts, reverses and strafes. Controlling the ship is hard to begin with, but there is a training level that you should practice on and YouTube video links to help you on your quest. The better the ship the easier the missions and whether it’s speed, attack power or protection you crave, they are all important. You can choose to play the game in many different ways, but the key to Elite is to earn money fast so you can upgrade your ship as fast as possible. Soundtrack wise, I found the actual space battles not as thrilling as they could have been, but still, it is a very impressive visual and audio package. The actual sound effects employed in the game are brilliantly emotive, from the hum of the thrusting to the beep of a control panel, all carefully measured and exact. Orchestral strings, choral harmonious voices fill the room when you play Elite: Dangerous on loud and flying through space feels so perfect that you can’t imagine that this music could be made for anything else. The soundtrack had to be special to compete with the magnificence of the created galaxy and it doesn’t in any way disappoint. When another spaceship hits you and your shields start to collapse around you, the cockpit starts to spark, smoke and break down, something I never got tired of seeing. The details in your cockpit with its pop up huds, control systems and navigation maps are really very clever. You can just get lost in this splendor as you travel in and around the stars, and I guess this will be enough for most players. The worlds, space, ships and suns are beautiful to behold. Graphically the game stands up to the PC version (released 2014) in every level except the odd bit of pop up. Or you will feel completely overwhelmed and befuddled by the hugeness of it all (there are 400 billion planets out there) and switch on Batman Arkham Knight instead. This is the crux point for most players right there, as you can jump on that bandwagon and experience this brilliant sense of freedom that you won’t find on any other Xbox One game. You begin your journey in a space station and with some missions available on the bulletin board, off you go. You start your career in the Sidewinder, a somewhat basic ship with a thousand credits. ![]() There’s not a story to follow, only the ones you make up as you go, there’s no hand holding or arrow to point you in the right direction. ![]() So for the newcomer to the series, what is Elite: Dangerous? Well, it’s basically a spaceship stimulator. How does it add up in this 2015 update? The truth…I’m not sure. ![]()
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