It's a decent game for a couple hours but gets repetetive and grindy fast. Start in a sector where everything will murder you on sight, slowly get new gear grinding the random missions (Freelancer style), move to another sector and start all over again. - Story is decent but gets sidelined by the grind. - UI isn't the best but the hotkeys plastered all over it keep it from getting confusing. - Graphics are nice in a J. J. Abrams way - lens flare and all possible disco particle effects. - Your ship especially if it's one of the taller models gets in the way and camera doesn't know what to do so you can't see jack. I didn't find any way to zoom or pan the camera (they should copy the way it's done in Void Destroyer). - Bigger battles get confusing fast, sometimes you wonder how you survived all of that onslaught of capital ships and missiles sometimes you get owned in a couple of seconds by a wing of tiny bombers you can't even see without the target markers shooting you with little put-put guns. - Annoying automatic sublight speed randomly speeding and slowing down the ship. - Ingame economy is pretty dynamic (most of the Elite styled games nail this more or less). - If you forget to dock from time to time you can lose hours of grinded money on death.
Great game with awesome story that you have to finish in one session :) Im looking forward to another playthrough taking another from the many paths. The only thing spoiling the fun for me were the frustrating mouse controls so i suggest getting at least a gamepad with analogue sticks.
