A lot of people have been anxiously awaiting this game for a long time. What was promised was a completely open-ended universe in which you could trade, pirate, explore, mine, or do whatever else you wanted to do and actually have a good time doing it.

Did Micro$oft deliver on that promise? It doesn't appear so.

ASElabs.com has a somewhat bleak review of how the game turned out. I, too, was waiting to see this game for the past year or more as nothing of this genre had been released since Privateer and X: Beyond the Frontier.