DarkStar One
Given that Elite is over 20 years old, it’s becoming increasingly tiresome to have to resort to mentioning its name when a new spacefaring game comes out. Yet in the case of Darkstar One we’re duty bound to do so, for on reading through the manual for Ascaron’s space title, the similarities are almost litigious.
You are a young buck starpilot, your father hides a murky past and expires before the game starts, and before you is a universe to explore with systems neatly categorised by their style of government. You can trade drugs, become a pirate, accept missions, raise cash and upgrade your ship with military lasers, missiles and even reach the heady heights of being called ‘dangerous’. If I wasn’t being so selective in my comparisons, you could almost call it spooky.
