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Even if some of the bugs are big enough to make me cry when they bite. Many folks hate that but, for me, 'still learning after six weeks' is the best compliment I can give a game.

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Heck, I've been playing the game pretty hard for six weeks and I still ended up spending some hours on Saturday figuring out just how to use the huge Orca freighter I was finally able to afford.

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The manual is 100 pages long and is still a bit short on information. If you're looking for a game where you can blow up some aliens to blow off some steam, this isn't your game.

I've really only scratched the surface on that side of the game, fighting nearly all my fights without a single wingman. You start out with one little fighter but doing combat missions earns you cash (particularly if the enemy bails out and lets you take their ship) that lets you buy a bigger fighter, then maybe a corvette, then some more fighters to fly along with you, and so on until you have fleets of ships.

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I'm still not done with the game but it's pretty clear from the story arc I have now that I'm going to need to build a galactic empire with one or two hundred factories plus ships to service them to complete it. I earned more money, set up a few more factories, bought a few more ships, bought a pretty big factory complex, and so on. Once I got those set up, I popped into that toothless fighter, bought it a couple of weapons, and started exploring some more. After a few days of that (did I mention that this game was big?), I bumped into an abandonded heavy fighter which I sold off for a ton of cash - enough to start a couple of factories up.

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I parked my toothless fighter somewhere, did some trading, bought some nicer software for my trader, and started exploring - trading as I went to earn some cash. I've never seen an empire builder this big before! I started in easy mode with one little trading ship and a tiny fighter (both unarmed). If you can soldier on through the bugs, though, this is one heck of a game. Extremely busy sectors in the game tend to stutter, too. Some of the mission objectives are a bit wonky. If you start the game in easy mode, you can't complete the tutorial because you have no weapons. The autopilot sometimes gets confused and slams you into something much bigger than you are. The game only seems to allow one NPC voice at a time so you may miss out on important story information if a message comes in at just the wrong time. I'm pretty sure Egosoft took that blacklist and pasted it straight in to their high priority requirements list. A lot has been learned over the years about what not to do in a game to make it more appealing to the millions of casual gamers out there. You will be blown up and will need to re-load from your last save. And, if you go and attack a massive fleet with a tiny fighter, you will not find yourself revived a few killometers away with all your stuff. It's quite happy to offer you missions you can't possibly complete if you're foolish enough to try them. The game never really tells you what to do. It's also about the most anti-casual game I've ever seen in my life.

The game is an Elite-style game with lots of space battles and even more space trading. Just a few quick trailers on GameTrailers to clue me in. This game has eaten me alive for the past six weeks! It didn't get much hype, though, or at least little hype that reached me here in Kansas.