This is a great tactics game that has you take over a crew of mercenaries and sends you on a mission to build up a fighting force. You select missions, build your mechs, get your pilots experience, improve your home ship. Mechs can take significant amounts of damage and lose limbs/parts without the pilot dying. That, combined with an initiative system, makes the combat very different from something like Xcom, and in a welcomed way.

As much as I liked the 27 hours I played, however, the game has two big flaws. First, most of your time is spent on battlefields with a jerky camera that moves between your lance and the enemy's on turns. This is extremely annoying and even adjusting the options the game offers doesn't fix it. The second and bigger problem is how slow the fights are. The time between moves and between mech animations became too agonizing for me to finish, even though I wanted to go on and even though I had the option to speed them up turned on.

Aside from this I recommend the game to anyone who likes tactics and/or mechs. Buy it on sale. It's a lot of fun.