Very disappointed with this game. Despite looking very pretty and shiny and having some impressive aircraft customization with weapons and support accessories, the game has very little to it in the way of the gameplay. The control is terrible. By default your craft moves extremely slowly, and if you get your rocket boost activated, you fly out of control and unable to make so much as a slight movement without your craft losing any sense of direction. The single player missions consist of poorly constructed challenges where your sole job is to fly through hoops and occasionally shoot at something that doesn't shoot back at you, all this happening under a strict time limit. You're not given any sort of tutorials on customizing your craft. You're just thrown into a hangar area with a bunch of weapons and support equipment without any idea what each of them does and in which situations they come useful. The game also has a multiplayer, with almost nobody on the servers, but presence of multiplayer is not an excuse. If the game is going to have single player missions, they should be interesting and good, and not only added as an afterthought. I didn't enjoy the music either and found its grungy rock riffs quite jarring.

Its like strike suit zero on crack. Expect to die... a lot The controls are kinda funky and the community is pretty much dead now, but holy **** this game is fun

Strike Vector is horribly underrated. It's as if you combined the multiplayer aspects of Descent 3, Quake 2 and a metric ton of amphetamines. Keep a spare keyboard and that carpal tunnel? Never mind that. There is simply no arcade style flying blast fest like it and despite its steep learning curve, the finer points of BATTEL are so well refined that it could be a professional competition. The top of the curve is HIGH. It's awesome to watch new players go from wet paper bags, over time, to mass murdering samurai. It's easy to fly, easy to kill but even easier to die. To do those gracefully is really, really hard but infinitely satisfying when you can head fake a great pilot into the exact position you need to melt his face with some well placed rockets. And it all happens in split seconds. I like that the arcade emphasis is on killing and totally ignores dying. It tracks crashing, but no one gives a damn. This would've been an amazing 4 player quarter muncher back in the early 90's, especially if it had Afterburner II style **** to shake you around in. Only con is a small but tightly knit and cool player base for an arena game. Maybe another is the general lack of team tactics but that's a player thing. Can't fault the game for it. The potential is there. Hands down one of my favorites if not number 1 and I've put around 200 hours into it. It's just that much teeth grinding fun. Weak pansies, man up and blast through the skies to die.