While the original Elite’s graphics were appropriate for their time, it left a lot to the imagination. Although more as a backdrop to weekly in-game events than a narrative, there are also ongoing events and lore. Perform enough missions for your favourite faction or fight along one side in a war and see the borders shift and economies wax and wane. Like many space trading games, an economic and political simulation underpins Elite Dangerous. Looking at the sky and realizing you can travel to most visible stars is a humbling experience. However, 400 billion stars are accessible, backed by hard science, where possible, and procedural generation, otherwise.

The game is set a bit after the year 3300, where humanity has colonized “the bubble” around 150 lightyears from Earth, encompassing over 20,000 inhabited star systems. As you zoom out on the galaxy map for the first time, its sheer enormity becomes apparent. The upcoming Odyssey expansion adds “space legs”, allowing pilots to leave their vehicles and walk around space stations and some planet surfaces.Įlite Dangerous is set in the Milky Way galaxy. The Horizon expansion adds landing on planets, driving a ground vehicle and limited multi-crew. You start with a small fighter, then work your way up via combat, exploring, trading, mining, ferrying passengers and completing missions to earn larger, better or more specialized ships. You play a pilot flying a single spacecraft. Based on the 1984 Elite that seemingly crammed a galaxy into 64KB, Elite Dangerous expands this to a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game with modern graphics and gameplay. Elite Dangerous is a space trading, exploration and combat simulator released in December 2014 and regularly updated since then.

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