This game is going straight into my favorites.
When I first played this game, I was still into Elite, so I never got that far in it.
Years later, I dug it out and was everjoyed that there was something to do at the stations and being able to play the arcade games.
Reminds me of MicroProse games where they put two or three types of game in one - all part of the bigger picture.
Origin did some fantastic games before they fizzled out.
The storyline is great and the space-flight sim is cool, too.
Trying to navigate nebulae and wormholes was soo tricky, even slowly, but it was amazingly satisfying to finally do it at full speed.
Since Elite and Elite2: Frontier (when it gets put up) get 5's from me, I think that this game gets a 5.5 for having all the other elements.
It's a real shame that more space-flight sims aren't around that have an RPG element and free-roam these days.
I guess that there aren't enough buttons on a console to play them properly though...
*wistful sigh - they don't make em like they used to...
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