It is a nice game with great potential nice story, and absolutely stunning visuals. What is lacking for me is more ship customization options, and shallow combat, which gets repetitive quite quickly. I love FTL, and in my opinion its combat system both in depth and variability of different approaches is better....
Ok, so based on my experience playing the game for about 10 hours I can definitely recommend it. I have never played the original before so I can not compare, but this is a very nice 4x game. The game has a nice pace, it is not too complex so that you would need a manual to even try it, but at the same time does have enough depth to keep you interested for quite some time. The visuals are very nice, with nice the battles, especially after you get the bigger classes of ships. As I said the complexity is not as big as with other types of games like this, but for me that is more of a plus. Overall worth the price, look forward to some DLCs with more content....