Freelancer is a superior game to this. It runs and looks completely smooth and bug free unlike Darkstar One. Crappy lame copy protection aside (the protection will bug the game from the start and possibly destroy your PC), this game sticks you with the same ship for the entire game, even though you can upgrade it with alien artifacts you find which does upgrade its parts and power.
Voice acting and sound is awful, the linear atmosphere looks like pickled poop sauce. Unlike Freelancer, which the world is completely connected almost everywhere, this game each little planet is a small area which you have to warp out of to get to the next area, there is no feeling of being in a actual galaxy. In Freelancer, if you just let you ship fly, it would end up in all kinds of wierd places, if you saw a planet in the distance, you could actually manually fly there and see it getting closer every second. This game is such a huge step backwards. If the storyline was good it'd be ok to accept some of this crap, but its not.
Why even write a review for this game I wonder, just play Freelancer, sure Freelancer has a few annoyances (pretty sudden ending for example).
If you play this game, maybe than you'll be able to appreciate Freelancer more!!