X-Tension
| X: Beyond The Frontier | |
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| Developer(s) | Egosoft |
| Publisher(s) | THQ |
| Series | X |
| Engine | X Engine |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release | 1 July 1999 |
| Genre(s) | Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| X-Tension | |
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| Developer(s) | Egosoft |
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THQ SouthPeak Games (EUR) |
| Series | X |
| Engine | X Engine |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release | 1 June 2000 |
| Genre(s) | Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
X: Beyond the Frontier (1999) is a video game created by Egosoft for Windows. The first of the X series, it is a space trading and combat simulator game, mostly set in the fictional X-Universe. Upon release, it was frequently compared to the older Elite.
An expansion, X-Tension, was released in 2000. Three full sequels have since followed: X2: The Threat in 2003, X3: Reunion in 2005 and X3: Terran Conflict in 2008. X: Beyond the Frontier and X-Tension were released in together as X-Gold in 2000. A novel, Farnham's Legend, is based on the plot of X: Beyond the Frontier.
Set in the year 2912, in the Beginning of the 30th Century, the player takes the role of Kyle Brennan, an Earth test pilot for the X-Shuttle, better known as the X-Perimental Shuttle, which has the ability to jump from one part of the universe to another via a wormhole without requiring a jumpgate.
During the test jump, something goes drastically wrong and Brennan ends up in an unknown part of space. He encounters an alien race, the Teladi, a highly capitalist, profit-focused culture. Finding Kyle helpless, they repair his ship and loan him some money. They also give hints on trading in the X Universe, and may tell him (if he asks) about the Argon and other alien races in the X-Universe. The X Universe is a network of sectors linked by jumpgates. With his jumpdrive destroyed, and no idea how to return to Earth, Brennan finds himself stranded, alone and indebted to an alien race.
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