Is there a 10 star option? Why are you reading this when you could be playing it? Quit reading it and buy it now. This is the best space sim of an era. I played this game for years, downloaded and made custom missions and joined online fleets to compare my scores. Even in this era of super HD games and movie, set piece plots this will always be my favorite game. I couldn't tell you anything about my life for the month after this game came out but I can give you a full story and mission synopsis of this game. The story and audio are amazingly immersive. The flight and combat is smooth and responsive. replaying missions 20 times to get the crazy secret and secondary objectives was like an addiction. It comes with the expansion as well as the original release version on top of the 98 version with textures added which is a plus.
