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Apple has posted a new trailer to its game site, this one featuring footage from X3: Terran Conflict. The final chapter in the X3 saga continues the story of human, alien, and machine interaction with a focus that includes exploration of the once isolated Earth solar system. X3: Terran Conflict features a larger universe, the new Terran faction, and more than 100 new spaceships.

X3: Terran Conflict continues the X Universe’s story of human, alien, and machine races vying for power — players choose between several different characters, with their selection slightly altering the plot. The X Universe has made contact with the Solar System, but Earth is a much different place than it was centuries ago, when a calamity cut the planet off from a small group of humans.

While exploring the newly rediscovered Solar System and investigating the robotic Xenon race’s odd behavior, players undertake a wide variety of missions or simply chart their own course. They can trade resources with some races, while others may attack players on sight. As they accumulate wealth, players can not only upgrade their spacecraft and buy new ones but also build factories, trading stations, weapon platforms, and a headquarter. The game’s persistent universe spins around them the entire time, creating an open-ended experience that continues after the story ends.

Apple Games: X3 Terran Conflict Trailer

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