Despite being a Wing Commander fan, I never managed to finished the game when I got it sometime in the 1990's, until now. It's really hard at the start and you need to do a lot of grinding to be able to buy equipement. The graphics are dated, so just being a long haul trucker in space for many hours is not as enjoyable. You don't really feel in space. Combat is fun and similar the other early Wing Commander games. You have generated missions of different types like patrol, cargo run, bounty hunter, defending base and combat. Story is enjoyable, if you don't mind too much the cheezy dialog at times. My biggest problem with it is you mostly have to play a certain way to do it. If you want to be a pirate, the story missions are really tough, since you have the mission's enemies to beat up, plus all the random encounters that are hostile towards you. Still, I really enjoyed the game, but you need close to 100 hours to finish it. It runs well on recent hardware too.
