Elite: Dangerous
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Elite: Dangerous is an adventure developed by Frontier Developments, released 16 December 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and Oculus Rift. It currently starts at $5.77 at Gamesplanet. The main story takes about 254 hrs to finish.
What Elite: Dangerous is
Elite: Dangerous is an adventure game developed by Frontier Developments and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Cobra.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Elite Dangerous is an online space, trading, exploration and combat simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments. The player commands a spaceship in a realistic 1:1 scale open-world representation of the Milky Way, with open-ended gameplay. Players can explore and engage with a procedurally generated galaxy, which includes around 400 billion star systems. The procedural system allows landing on planets with no or tenuous atmospheres. Many planets have special flora and fauna including alien and human settlements.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Elite: Dangerous holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 206 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 254 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 677 hrs, roughly 2.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $5.77, that works out to about $0.02 per hour of the main story, or $0.01 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Quad Core CPU (4 x 2Ghz), 6 GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 470/AMD R7 240. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.77 at Gamesplanet, 71% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Elite: Dangerous launched on 16 December 2014, within three weeks of Tales from the Borderlands, The Talos Principle, Resident Evil and LISA. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tales from the Borderlands, The Talos Principle, Resident Evil, LISA.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Elite: Dangerous yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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