I really liked the other titles of the series. They changed the mechanics, so that resources respawn, but then you have to collect things over and over. The rate at which things break is ridicoulous: sometimes a weapon lasts one combat.
If you are a casual gamer or don't have a lot of time to sink, don't buy. You just end up _wishing_ you could play this, but you can't. The game is really nice and addictive. Two things make it impossible for a casual gamer to play it: * lack of save game - you can only save when you exit. And the game gets deleted when you continue. The fans will tell you "but that's the point of the game". Fair enough. This is not such a big deal, though, as the game on easy is not that hard: I reached the final battle on the first play. Which brings us to: * impossible final battle - the first fight with the final boss is good, hard but not impossible. The second battle is way way harder than anything else. The strategies that you may have developed on other ships simply don't apply. You may have to upgrade the ship with a final strategy in mind... I'll never know. You spend a couple of hours to get a chance at the final battle, and you always come with a ship that is significantly different (the equipment you find is chance). Maybe if you do that tens of times, at the end you figure out what can work. I simply don't have the time to do that. If someone wrote a mod to make the end not that impossible, this would be a great game for the casual gamer too. Like this, is just a frustrating experience... :-/
