What Freelancer should have been!
With the ability to explore a seamless universe, design your ship from engines, wings, chassis and many many more features, Evochron Legends will have you playing at it for hours and forgetting the time.
Granted in terms user friendliness it's a little hard to get going, but the StarWraith 3D forums provide an excellent source of information to those new and old at the game.
You have got multiplayer and singleplayer options and your character links with both. So you don't have to start all over again when you decide to play with others.
The game gets better with age as they add more things to each build. The graphics are pretty decent looking as long as you have the computer to run it. The controls are quite smooth and provide excellent configuration including joystick support.
There are plenty of missions for you to do from transporting cargo, to fighting ships, to even racing! You can manually dock at stations and fly around inside planets to discover things,
All in all, this game was excellently put together but you should play the demo first to see if it fits your style.