Nvnews have thrown up their review of X² - The Threat! Here's a snip.

I recently had the opportunity of playing X2 The Threat by EgoSoft. It's a large scale empire building game set in the far reaches of the universe. I believe that's a good thing. I think this game should be shipped there. As far as open-ended space trading games are concerned, this game is certainly part of the genre. However, as a space opera, it's long on game time, but comes up short on the story. I have a few words that I would use to describe this game: stunning, infinite, monotonous, tiresome, and laughable.