I wished for a game that was a bit like descent 3 for a while now.
Not a flight siim where you have to care about every little thing like "deploy hardpoints" or fuel or stuff.
This scratches that itch. The dogfights are fun, exploration is kinda nice, you just often can't find much more than sights. If something is on the map but far off, and has no marker, the story will bring you there sooner or later anyway, or a side mission will be there in the future, so not much need to visit there before.
The story.. well the less said about it the better, it's pretty crap to be honest. And the writing is pretty bad, the player figure becomes a messiah and.. you didn't do much besides blowing up ships and watching hallucinations.
All in all it's not a great game, but not a bad one either and if you want space dogfights you can do worse.

I just wish the player character wasn't so ugly. But oh well, that's all of western gaming in the current era.

I wished for a game that was a bit like descent 3 for a while now. Not a flight siim where you have to care about every little thing like "deploy hardpoints" or fuel or stuff. This scratches that itch. The dogfights are fun, exploration is kinda nice, you just often can't find much more than sights. If something is on the map but far off, and has no marker, the story will bring you there sooner or later anyway, or a side mission will be there in the future, so not much need to visit there before. The story.. well the less said about it the better, it's pretty crap to be honest. And the writing is pretty bad, the player figure becomes a messiah and.. you didn't do much besides blowing up ships and watching hallucinations. All in all it's not a great game, but not a bad one either and if you want space dogfights you can do worse. I just wish the player character wasn't so ugly. But oh well, that's all of western gaming in the current era.