This is the game that made me a man. If you play this game and successfully complete all of the secret Emperor missions then you, too, will be a man, my son. This game is brutally hard. Played for an hour and cocked up the last dogfight? PLAY AGAIN? Didn't catch the audio cue that a ship you're supposed to have disabled has left the hangar and you didn't get your secret mission objective accomplished? PLAY AGAIN? Died because you flew too close to that Mon-Cal cruiser as you were RTBing to leave? PLAY AGAIN? Got cocky and rammed your TIE-D into an X-WIng in a head on pass? ...you get the idea. More fun than you'd expect a random collection of pixels to be, without being piss-you-off hard like the Redemption mission in X-Wing. Man, screw that mission. Buy it. Own it. LOVE IT!
The guy who says this is a mobile port has no idea what he's talking about. As a Kickstarter backer for more than $30, I got to play this in beta. The game's graphics and animations are a bit rough, but the gameplay itself is fantastic. The Logic Dreams guys made a stand-out hit, and the mix of planning at the strategic level (through trading, supply lines, and etc) as well as the flexible tactics make for a fun an challenging game, if not exactly historically accurate. Hooray on GOG!
