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An interesting story, a very large game world to explore and multiple side quests make this one a gem of RPG's. You can also pretty much design your character to your liking and with three different path to follow it bode well for replay ability. However the story is so linear that the only reason to replay it would be to try a different approach, like a Mage or a Thief instead of a Warrior but otherwise, once you know the ending and how the quests are resolved, there's little if any interest left. An other issue is that you may accidentally uncover an item needed to complete a quest and get rid of it one way or an other and thus, later on, find that you can't complete it. Quite frustrating and could have been easily prevented. Progression of your character through higher levels of competence, direly required if one expects to survive and win the game, is painfully slow and it gets worst as you go up in levels as you will need to kill many more and powerful adversaries to achieve the same meager results: five points to distribute between four possible traits (Although, depending on the path chosen, one of the four is much less relevant). I also found the interface quite imprecise making it very difficult to do certain critical tasks and making your character do unexpected things leading to certain death. Lots of frustration but such an otherwise good game that you'll be more than happy to have played it. Specially at GOG's low prices, a must game to have.
The game is quite interesting and enjoyable (Safe for the poor writing and voice over but I've seen worse, much worse). The problem is that, on the normal difficulty level, the game becomes impossible once you meet the aliens. It may be a bug but the aliens will keep spawning until your mother ship is destroyed. I managed to get through 5 waves of four ships attacking just to see another fifteen ships spawning along with 16 pirate ships. Even with the best ships, weapons and defense system it's impossible to win in such conditions. The interface is also very buggy with some commands not working until you click on them four times. Finally many of your wingmates just fly away not responding to commands and until they get destroyed. Three stars is generous for a game that can't be won on normal difficulty level.