Elite: Dangerous promises that you can influence these power battles in what is a persistent universe, but it’s too early in its life to see how this will really play out. Its universe also has an overarching power battle between three major factions - the Empire, the Federation, and the Alliance - that’s told through events, missions, and news feeds both as you play and via the Galnet website. Taking them on can prove profitable, though, particularly early on. It also has missions that you can carry out, and though they reward you with credits and respect, these are by no means obligatory. While not all the systems you visit are spectacularly exciting - some are simply a sun surrounded by deep space - you always have a chance of spotting the glimmering surface of a deep blue water-world, or discovering a forbidding far-off space station playing host to pirates. Concentrating on a smaller area of play for your first dozen hours helps control the mild panic you may experience when you pan around the full galaxy map, taking in the size of it all. And the open-ended nature of Elite: Dangerous means that embarking on a career in space piracy is as viable as setting up a trading company, becoming a bounty hunter, or simply heading out into the darkness and exploring uncharted stars.Įxamining Elite: Dangerous’ galaxy map is initially daunting, especially when you realize it stretches out in all directions, but you can’t deny the scope for exploration and adventure this massive open-world offers. With 400 billion star systems to explore in a full-scale re-creation of our own Milky Way - part mapped and part procedurally generated - it has almost no end to the distance you can travel. This new version takes the concept to its logical conclusion, giving you the chance to visit every star you can see in the night sky. Thirty years ago, the first Elite offered a 2,048-planet universe that let you play how you want. Image Credit: Dan Crawley What You’ll like But it’s the little moments of wonder, like stumbling on a funeral procession in deep space or dropping out of supercruise to find a small crew of Sidewinders quietly mining the asteroid belts around Jupiter, that make it such an engaging, immersive, and addictive experience. It’s funny really, because life in Elite: Dangerous - released by Frontier Developments for PC on Dec. I left it running for nearly 7 days straight last week, dropping in to grab the throttle of my Eagle and run a mission, and then standing up again six hours later, wondering where the time went. At times, my sleeping mind struggled to separate the game from reality, and I’d wake in the night not knowing where I was. I just couldn’t shake the space sim from my head. Sitting watching my daughter’s soccer training on a rainy Wednesday night, my mind drifted off to the bounties on offer in LTT 7448 and the best trade routes for gold and palladium near Sol. You see, it’s become something of an obsession.
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