Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest.
In Battlestar Galactica the game you are thrust into the beginning of the Human Cylon war some 40 years before the original series. You play as a young and fearless Adama before he makes it to Commander and the missions that are thrown at you are quite varied and unique.
Firstly, there aren't that many space combat games for consoles and Galactica has done an excellent job at re-creating the sights and scences you'd expect from the 70's show.
The level of detail on each Viper and Raider is nice with really good enviroment renderings which really make you feel like your flying for the Colonial Fleet.
The first few missions put you in the cockpit of one of these vipers while you protect some other pilots from Raiders while they get back to Galactica, a few missions you have the ability top try out a new Viper that he humans have been producing and few levels further than that you get to fly a Cylon Radier which is pretty cool.
The controls can be a little tricky to learn at first and with limited amounts of power in each ship you can't keep afterburing towards enemies at high speed firing lasers widely, instead the power situation means that you have to judge your targets carefully. Even so, an experianced gamer on Galactica may find it frustrating when they are presented with a host of enemies but their ship is basically dead in the water.
Mission objectives vary from level to level but the general idea is get those toasters as much as possible.
Definetlly worth a rent but with xbox games being so cheap you may as well buy it.