I wasted my money on this one. Laughably bad.
The first clue that something was badly wrong was the low resolution graphics. I have a 30" monitor and the latest graphics card and I cranked up all the settings but still the interface was noticeably blocky. As a programmer myself, I believe they used resolution graphics and merely scaled them up for the higher resolution display.
As I started to work through the tutorial, I found myself actually cringing when the characters spoke. Their voices were annoying and I simply couldn't imagine devoting time to this game and having those incredibly annoying voices repeat the same phrases over and over again.
On the strategy views and when the game characters appeared in their own dialog areas there wasn't even an attempt to synchronize voice to lip movements. It was like some badly dubbed movie. I couldn't even hit escape or other interrupt to bypass these and was forced to endure them.
As I continued to give it the benefit of the doubt it locked up a couple of times and large chunks of the gaming graphics simply disappeared as I watched. As my character walked towards them they would appear and disappear randomly. I went to the web site for the game and found that a patch was available but the patch would not install. Going back to the website I found that there was a patch to the patch to get it installed. It is obvious that the developers of the game are not native English speakers as their support web site and basic instructions are themselves poorly written and contain serious grammatical errors.
As for the game play itself ... I found it non-existent. I was exposed to a bizarre variety of buttons and options and choices and no sign of a gradual build up of knowledge ... the game seemed to expect that I know everything all at once. The real-time action was not with frequent pauses to change tactics ... the laser fire from my weapons sounded like an old 1930's flash gordon episode.
All in all ... a waste of my time and money. I'm not even going to offer to give it to someone as that would be spiteful.
Sorry if this review seems harsh ... it is my first attempt but the frustration of this purchase has caused me to want to share.