Nothing like skimming along the water in your fighter jet before going into a controlled stall and shooting up at some joker you're about to kill. I know the game is made for controllers, but using a flight stick felt great, and once I got the hang of the movement/high-G maneuvers it really felt like there wasn't anything I couldn't pull off with the right plane. The story and dialogue and cutscene animations can be a bit silly, but who cares, that's part of the fun. My main gripes are that, for a game where 90% of the fun is coming up with and executing wild flight tricks and dogfight scenarios, the free-flight/custom-encounter system is extremely rudimentary (how hard would it be to tell the game to spawn X enemies in Y map and let me just jump in?) and the replay/recording system is nowhere near adequate to capture all the cool stuff you do (there are some mods you can use to get around this, but so far it's been a pain in the ass). Haven't tried the multiplayer, I'm guessing at this point I'd just get creamed by people who have been playing for years.