There's good games...
And then there's great games. There's only one reason I can't stop playing this game: the chainsaw. I mean...come on, a fighter with a chainsaw, you just can't get better than that! I just run in with my shield timed so I don't take too much damage, and I obliterate everything in my path. It's just too much fun! It also makes short work of those suicide ships and missiles that come at you. and anything in a line is totally toast.
It's also incredibly over-powered, mind you, you're running headlong into squadrons of badguys risking it all, so I guess it needs to be powerful to be any good at all.
Still, it's the first game where I could smash into ships and it was super-effective! Kudos!