So I actually bought another game in the summer sale just to get this one for free -- I was way more interested in this game than the one I bought oddly enough. Anyway, the developers clearly love Firefly. From the country / rockabilly music to everyone having cowboy accents. I was totally jazzed -- I love Firefly! And it definitely has a Privateer vibe -- I loved Privateer! So great start... The atmosphere in the game is perfect, the story is reasonably interesting. Many people have mentioned the fact that you only travel in one plane; basically, you are restricted to 2D motion in a 3D universe. This doesn't bother me necessarily; but what does bother me is the bad guys can go wherever they want. They are not restricted to the 2D plane. This makes keeping up with them, at times, really unnecessarily difficult and it makes me feel like a sitting duck. It also makes asteroid fields really obnoxious to navigate and combat in asteroid fields super unfair :P Combat itself is utterly, blatantly, boring. It is completely and totally dull; I hate it. There's no skill involved, there's nothing to do. You just get hammered on while you hammer other ships. You're constantly swarmed, there's no real way to dodge or avoid other than to use the deflector which is temporary invulnerability. Everything's flying circles around you in 3D while you're stuck in 2D land, and all enemy ships take forever to actually destroy. Maybe its the fact that I've just started and don't really have many combat options, but, at this point, I hate combat. I just always run and resent combat interfering with whatever I actually want to do. I really want to like this game, but I don't see playing it much longer simply because the combat isn't even a little tiny bit fun for me.
