I think a 4 is a bit low, but there is no 4.5 option, and since I have a hard time giving anything a 5... I guess I'll have to use a 4. This battle was certainly a good one from many perspectives. I liked the innovative plot, I liked the speed with which the missions moved along in general, as well as many other good things. I didn't at times like flying a T/D so much, and having wave after wave of fighters does bug me in all battles, but it wasn't too bad here. Overall a great mission to fly and since I didn't run into any bugs then it would probably be a good choice for any competition. =)
Although the plot was not too believable (I'm quite the realist), it was very original, to say the least. I didn't have the bug on mission 5 that others have noted, although I must say that it took me many tries to get mission 5 completed without blowing something... either the challenge would get blown up, or the ATR, or something would always go wrong for me. The briefing maps went a little fast, but there were no bugs in the game that I found. I'd give it a 4 thumbs up. =P
Overall good battle. Briefings, questions, all working and clean of mistakes. Not a bug to be found anywhere when I flew it. No annoying waiting around for something to happen. Goals were well thought out for the most part. Decently hard, but not so much so that it is totally discouraging. Only major flaw was that in mission 7 a bunch of cap ships came in and did basically nothing (ie, launched few fighters and shot at nothing). My machine is fast enough to keep up with it without slowing down, but annoying to have those ships sitting uselessly by, just watching and then leaving.
An all around good battle. If you play it on the hard level it can be quite the challenge for any pilot out there. Gotta love it when a lone TIE Advanced takes out 17 of the 18 rebel T/Ds (who have advanced missiles) and lives to tell about it. =)
Well, it was great fun, but after a while it gets old since you are going after 250 TIE Fighters and it took me about 40 minutes to finish it. On average that's about 1 every 10 seconds, not bad. =)
