If you like the show Battlestar Gallactica and its form of lowtech space travel you may very well enjoy this game...alot
The truth is there are not many games like this anymmore. Gone are the days of really great space combat sims. Granted the fighter combat is not as good as Darkstar one, or even Freespace 2, a game that was way ahead of its time way back when. But it makes up for this with the capital ships and carriers. That alone is worth a try if you liked games such as Startrek: Starfleet command 1,2,and 3...or Nexus: jupiter incident, or even Bridge commander. Those games are fun games to play with large capital ships pounding at each other. However in this game the battles unfold rather quickly, not giving you much time to form a strategic flight plan to bear all your weapons in an effective manner, such as the Starfleet command, where tactical maneuveres to face a down shield is paramount. I would even mention Homeworld 1, 2 and cataclysm...but really those games are in their own class.
The sound is ok, and I like the sense of explosions happening so far you can barely hear them...and yes we all know there is sound is space. Well I mean at times a carrier will go down and you can barely hear the explosion depending on where the camera is, and soon as you shoot from a fighter the shots are cranked. Kinda pissed me off I suppose. The graphics are not quite up to par with todays standards, nothing like x3: reunions graphics which are amazing...too bad that game is impossible to get into. But the graphics look and feel good enough at the highest settings to give you that realistic space feel. Gameplay is nice where you can choose your missions as you see fit, start off as a grunt fighter, work your way up to bigger ships with more important missions. Somthing to remember though is that inertia is a very real thing, takes getting used to controlling your ships. Unlike other games where you can turn on a dime. I give the value an 8 for the ambition that was obviously put into this game. Support the indie developers, they never follow the band wagon and pump mediocre cookie cutter products like so many others. Try this game out if it sounds interesting to you in the least. Bottomline: Realistic space conbat sim with alot of potential, using fighters, bombers, capital ships, and carriers at your disposal.