Already at war with a mysterious species - the Khaak, the player is dropped into an X-universe facing a new threat from highly organised pirates - The Yaki. With sightings of an unknown spaceship; political pressures from home and brand new weapons trying to blast the player into spacedust it sure isn't safe in space anymore.

With a sweeping action packed movie storyline, alongside the X universe's famous massive 'free roaming' universe, X2- THE RETURN will take the player on dynamic missions to test their skills to the limit. However, brand new ships, shiny new weapons, and a new plot aren't enough. X2- THE RETURN also introduces mini-missions. These give the player access to advanced technologies; puts them into a seat of your pants chase through a futuristic cityscape; allows the chance to remote pilot a drone through an asteroid in a race against the clock; and if that isn't enough, there are still those slave girls that need rescuing from a pleasure complex before it explodes. Answering many of the questions about the X universe, X2- THE RETURN offers the chance to Trade, Fight, Build and Think your way through to a thrilling conclusion. Pull on the spacesuit, warm the engines, X2's back in town.

You might be at war, but you'll have to do more than fight to win. To add to X2's well established trading credentials, X2- THE RETURN now gives a new building element that lets budding entrepreneurs interconnect factories to create huge spaceborne complexes to truly mass produce the commodities a universal economy demands.

Of course it does and The X universe is growing again. There are new hidden sectors for players to discover. Existing sectors now include a variety of 'unique' items, which will encourage fresh exploration and discovery throughout the universe. Many of the 70+ existing starship types get 'variant' models for specialist purposes. But you'll have to think when you tinker, for those gleaming new storage compartment on your TS Transporter might carry more cargo, but it could mean you can't dock at stations.