I purchased this game shortly after it was added to GoG, having incredibly fond memories of playing it years ago with a joystick when I was little. I downloaded it, and installed, the whole game coming in at less than a hundred MB if memory served so everything was fine and dandy on the installation front. Unfortunately the troubles began immediately after the opening cut scene here I was treated to black screens for menus which made it virtually impossible to navigate until I eventually, by some small miracle of luck, was able to launch the game. I was playing this game on my 360 pad, having been unable to find another joystick within my budget at the time and the game handled perfectly. The controls were responsive and laid out in a way that made sense, flight was fluid and all in all, the game itself ran fine, beyond the preexisting performance issues that are just a part of the software's age. Due to the black screen error, I was unable to properly save the game which made the time that I had spent playing it, multiple hours in fact, completely pointless. Following both a reinstall and reading through the local forums, I learned that the screen error is endemic to this version of the game, and at one point there were rumblings of a patch which, after another reinstall almost a year after the first attempt, yielded the same black screen error. Simply put; Until the error is fixed the game is virtually unplayable, which is saddening because normally I'd gush over it.
