It's not worth the disc it comes on...
I tried this game at a friends house, I wasn't impressed at all quite frankly. He kept on saying, wait until the patch, wait until the patch, this game will rock... I found out about the patch and called him to see if it was worth buying... The guy was so peeved off that they didn't FIX anything in the areas so many folks wanted fixing that he told me he uninstalled it and that I could pick up his copy. So I did.. a free game is a free game, right? He totally deleted the files so there's no piracy, he basically gave me his copy.
I have to say I was excited! Until I saw that nothing had changed from before the patch, the game was still as boring as I saw it was at my friend's crib... No changes, nothing new.. just seems to run smoother. So OK now we have smooth crap.. but it still seems to be just that... crap. Who did the voice-overs? Certainly not professionals!
Who wrote the story? Absolutely not professionals!
Who designed the missions? Not even close to knowing what he was doing!
Who created the GUI? A graphic design drop-out!
Who designed the ships? Well ok those are fine! Who thought of the purchase interface? A high school kid that never used tabs in his life! Or had a trapper keeper!