Sooooo close, but it missed the mark.
Game Play: 9/10
I've have to say, it rocked. It's an RTS and an Action game rolled into one and it works with only a few flews. Long training missions, and a lack of single player missions (a skirmish mode would have worked wonders.) and that's all you really can fault it for. As far as single player goes.
Multi player you can find yourself play over and over again or not at all. I don't, personally, like the online part simply because I rarely can find 30-45 minutes to sit down uninterrupted. In multi player, you choose from one of 8 slots (four for US and four for Japan) and duke it out on the maps from the single player games, which works, but some other maps and the ability to have more choice other then the defaults for the maps would have put it over the top.
Graphics: 8/10
Very nice clouds.... I haven't seem better. The rest of the game is fairly well down, once you considering the size of the maps. You wont be disapointed here.
Sound: 7/10
Typical stuff, some nice music some time to time. The voice overs do get repetitive. But, over all, it works.
Value: 5-8/10
For me, I'd give it a 5, but for people that can sit down and play for 45 mintues with the controller without having someone interupt you, I'd say an 8. The single player is way short and there's not much point in playing the challenges more then once after you beat them. Not worth the $60, so I'd wait until it dropped to about 30 or less. But it WAS a good game while it lasted.