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Elite Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite video game series. It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters , [ 9 ] released in 1995, becoming the top selling game for Christmas of that Year. By November 2012, Frontier began a Kickstarter campaign for ED due to the inability to secure a publisher .
Ship flying over the terra-formed planet Mars. First Encounters carried over the gameplay features from its immediate predecessor Frontier: Elite II, in that the game is a combination of trading, fighting, espionage, bombing and a variety of other military activities; the combat ratings were also carried over from the previous games.
Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator "in the spirit of" Elite, a similar game published in the 1980s.The name is a contraction of object oriented Elite, because it was written in Objective-C, an object-oriented programming language.
Elite received very positive reviews on its launch and the BBC Micro version eventually sold 107,898 copies. [79] The game's popularity became a national phenomenon in the UK, with reports airing on Channel 4 and elsewhere. [80] Elite was Firebird's best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. [81]
Similarly to the original Elite, Frontier offers dozens of ships, from small but fast fighters like the Eagle, multi-role traders like the Cobra to huge cruisers such as the Anaconda or the Panther. Players may own only one ship at a time, so when a new ship is purchased, the old ship is part exchanged (i.e. traded in with most of its trade ...
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Headquartered in Manhattan, New York, Take-Two Interactive is an American video game holding company founded in September 1993 by Ryan Brant. It publishes games through 2K Games (Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, Evolve, Mafia, Sid Meier's Civilization, The Darkness, XCOM), 2K Play (Carnival Games), 2K Sports (NBA 2K, WWE 2K), Ghost Story Games, Private Division (Kerbal Space Program ...
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