I began playing console and computer games with the advent of Pong. My favorite games have always been simulation games. BP is an ABSOLUTELY beautiful game. Gorgeous even. I was so excited about it when I discovered it on YouTube. My excitement rapidly turned to disappointment. Here comes the bad part. The interface is horrible and non-intuitive. It makes it difficult to control everything. You will invest a lot of time just trying to learn the various commands and controls, and just give up in frustration and likely "rage quit" and regret spending your time and money. I would think that with the incredible range of games with excellent interfaces that this game would have the same. The menus are plain out ugly. On a positive note, the ships are fun to play. Apart from being stunning to look at listen to, except for the horrible stilted amateur voice acting, I have extremely little positive to say. I so very much wanted to love this game, but the battle was in learning it and after a couple of hours a day for five days, I lost the will to continue and surrendered.