X2: The Threat

Trade your way through the space lanes and achieve mogul status.
Fight your way through dozens of interlinked missions within an all-new storyline.
Build your empire of stations and ships across the Universe.
Think if your next move could be your last as the Universe reacts to your actions.

A first person space experience designed for today's game players with sound and graphics to match.

Discover new worlds and races, become a trader, bounty hunter, pirate, miner or a cunning combination of them all.

The uneasy peace that befalls the Universe is about to be broken...

Can you meet the Threat head on?

Yes this game is as good as it sounds. If you enjoyed freelancer then you will fall in love with X2: The Threat. Except from it's vast universe environment perfectly suitable for countless space exploration, this game also includes a very remarkable 3D engine. Also it's full support of Antiliasing and Anisotropic filtering settings makes it a good reference for testing the capabilities of latest generation VGA cards.

For our tests I used a benchmark of X2 that I found on the net and believe me it is very demanding even for the high-end chipsets currently available.

Here we have very high and similar performance for both X800 XT and 6800U. Only at the 1280x1024 resolution the X800 card managed to take the lead for just 3 fps.

Enabling the quality settings, all cards decreased their performance for about 10-15 fps. Things remain the same though having the 6800 Ultra taking the lead in 2 out of 3 resolutions.