To sum up: Bad.

The interface is ugly, and even worse it’s confusing. Players move too quickly, and the running animations fall flat. The new Space Battle features are entirely unimpressive. The ships handle like crap, the HUD/Targeting Reticle is awful, there’s little sense of speed or acceleration, and there’s definitely no sense of mass. It feels more like I’m pushing around a graphics model rather than I’m flying a Tie Fighter. How is it that Pandemic can’t get Star Wars space battles right some 13 years after the simplistic games of XWing and Tie Fighter were so succesful on 20 MHz x486 machines?

Ugh. Thumbs down. The game isn’t AWFUL but it surely isn’t worth 50 bucks. If you’re craving an online shooter then get Battlefield 2.