Remember Descent? Remember Colony Wars? This game gives us the best of both: Big space battles with plenty of destruction, but also nimble movement and special maneuvering to get the drop on enemy ships. Drift and slide as you pound capital ships vulnerabilites, or target a fighter and pop up behind them.

God this game is so fun.

IN CHORUS

Recommended: Neutral
If you like this kind of game you will be able to play it for hours and be happy to start it again and again.
If you don't like this game you will hate it with favor. :-)

Me, I think it is too fast and not for normal people.

The recommendation FROM THE GAME is difficulty: Medium
And "medium" is nearly impossible without godlike reflexes or many attempts for certain missions.
So much NOT fun I can't tell you.

The controlling of your ship seems fluid and good when you just navigate through an area.
Really good and fun. Elegant.

Then you have to fight and it kind of ... stupid. Really.
It is just not fun.
Multiple enemies with high speed race around you and attack you and you will be able to kill them but it will not feel like you are a space ship captain who fought well but like a kid with a computer who moved the mouse/controller like crazy and was lucky.

If you ever played games like Elite/Privateer/Wing Commander/Empyrion/No man's sky/X/X2/X3/X4/Star Trek Online/etc ...
you knew what you were doing... you were piloting a ship and fighting enemies and you were in control.
Not so much here. You will just move the mouse around try to hit that fast moving target. That is NOT ship combat.
The nearest game - from the controlling - I remember would be Starfield. Great game but stupid space fights.
But this game is even worse. Much worse :-(

If you are trying this game, try it with difficulty: easy. They "say" it is just the story, but it is not true. It is combat on a normal level, which probably should have been on difficulty "normal".

Whatever. The only reason this game does not get a thumbs down is that I think it has a high quality in everything but ship control.
Too bad ship control is what you do 99% of the game. So I SHOULD give a thumbs down.
Yeah, I am right and I was wrong. Must give it a thumbs down. Silly me.

-------------------- Update --------------
After continuing the campaign on "easy" it was fun.
So I changed the recommendation to "thumbs up".
Which corresponds more with my gut feeling. :)

Destroying large ships part by part is just fun.