True Masterpiece, as for the story and the game play
The game is a truly masterpiece because of the great story. It's true that you have to read the historical guide to get all the storyline information, (and it takes your time) but it's not so hard to read it cause it's like reading a fantastic science-fiction book. Playing the game by understanding the whole story is like being a part of it. It moves your emotions and you feel like those who are trying to go home to their homeworld Higara.
The Game play:
Good:
As much as great as the story is also the game play. You encounter different styles of missions, so you're not always eradicating the enemy like is some strategy games. Sometimes you shoot of asteroids, salvage a ships by fighting through a minefield and ships who steal your frigates, making your way thought a high X-ray area etc. You never get bored about the differences of 16th missions. The movies through the game guide you perfectly across the story. The speed of building new fleets is just right and collecting the resources is well made. You have to set up the resource collection only at the beginning of a mission and usually you don't have any concerns about it anymore.
The warning system is really sophisticated and the voice warns you what's going on all the time. You don't know how helpful this is until you get to a mission when Fleet Command (she is the warning system) is disabled.
The control of ships is at the beginning a bit difficult, (you get also a tutorial) but with a bit of practice you can master it so, it's won't be an obstacle anymore (but just with some glitches).
Bad:
Well as we have talked about the control above, it's true that sometimes the whole thing is getting harder when a lot of ships come together on one place. The game is in 3D and sometimes you don't have a clear overview of what's going on in every part of the battle. But this isn't so bad as it hears because Fleet Command is all the time giving you the information of happening.
One more thing which is making the whole game long and sometimes boring, are the long distances you have to cover with the fleet to gather to the enemy or a certain location. And here is what I missed, the time accelerator. It would really come in handy to speed up form time to time the whole happening.
My score is 9.5 because the game is truly a masterpiece. The 0.5 to the 10 is missing because of the insufficient control and long distances.
I suggest this game to all who like similar games like "Nexus: The Jupiter Incident"