Well, I'm not going to go in and restate everything from all the other reviews on here, I'm just interjecting my 2 cents.  The Multiplayer system is great, the base wars battles are wonderful, everything is great, except one little thing that just bugs the heck out of me.  Remember if you will (or just pretend if you never played the game) Wing Commander 3.  One ship, the Arrow, a light interceptor, had an ability called the Slide which enhanced it's dogfighting abilities.  Well, EVERY ship in this game can do that.  There's more though... There is a ship add-on called lateral thrusters in the game, which allow youer ship to strafe side to side.  Basically, with both of these aspects being redilly available to every ship in the multiplayer campaigns you have 'dogfights' turning into odd forays which much resemble 'circle strafing' matches in any number of First Person Shooter style games.  To me it takes alot of fun out of a flight sim to not be able to dogfight, but that's just my opinion...