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Frontier: First Encounters

Description

Part 3 of the famous Elite series. You're a space pirate and you fly around through the universe in your space craft to fulfill different missions. You can also earn money by trading cargo with other races.

Alternate Titles

• "FFE" -- Common Abbreviation
• "Elite 3" -- Informal Name

Part of the Following Groups

• Elite series
• Merchant / Trade-oriented games

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User Reviews

Quite a bit better than Frontier : Elite 2 after you patch it. A lot.	Jeremy Johnson (583)
Good but flawed, 33rd century space action as you partake the role of an interstellar mercenary.	Stuart Stocks (7)	unrated
Fascinating and complex	robotriot (6165)
A mess, how could the co-creator of the classic Elite create such a monster?	woods01 (156)
Somewhat Horrendous Irritating Trash	Martin Smith (77)
Frustrating at times, but occasionally brilliant	Stargazer (99)
An Elite Fan from the Beginning	StimuL8 (4)

The Press Says

Joystick	Jun, 1995	92 out of 100	92
Power Unlimited	Jul, 1995	7 out of 10	70
PC Gamer	Aug, 1995	70 out of 100	70
PC Games (Germany)	May, 1995	68 out of 100	68
Datormagazin	Jul, 1995	3 out of 5	60
High Score	Jun, 1995	3 out of 5	60
Abandonia	Nov 22, 2005	3 out of 5	60
PC Player (Germany)	May, 1995	59 out of 100	59

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Trivia

David Braben and Ian Bell were the original authors of the first Elite back in the 80s. Braben made the third game without giving Bell credit or royalties to the space ships and other ideas he created that were reused in this game and had to sue Braben for payment.

This game was orginally intended to be an add on disk for the second game Frontier but because they rushed that game its engine could not handle expansion disks effectively so they rewrote the engine and released this. This game was also rushed and filled with numerous bugs that made its inital release unplayable.