- First Encounters carried over the gameplay features from its immediate predecessor Frontier: Elite II, in that the game is a combination of trading, fighting...
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- First Encounters has a lot of Frontier, but the points, anything that didn't work so well in Frontier has been improved.
- Frontier: First Encounters is the sequel to the best-selling Frontier: Elite 2 (FE2), which itself was the sequel to the legendary Elite.
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- Released in Easter 1995, "First Encounters" was well reviewed, despite being released by its publisher before the development team thought it was ready.
- Frontier: First Encounters came less than two years afterwards, and with an apologetic title that makes it sound like a mere expansion pack, but it is in fact Elite III.
- - Frontier: First Encounters (from here on mentioned as FFE) is the third in a science-fiction game series, all of them set in the same universe.
- GameTek published the game in 1995 for DOS. Unlike Elite and Frontier, First Encounters was not released on the Amiga or other platforms.
- Frontier: First Encounters (most commonly abbreviated FFE) is the third game in the Elite Series by Frontier Developments.
