Truly innovative indie game
Every weapon in Hyperbol is useful in it's own way. You are able to specialize in weapons from turrets to missiles to energy walls. It's easy to find a build that's just right for your play style, whether it's defensive, offensive, or something in between. Aside from the weapons, there are ships with varied statistics, modules to adapt them, and "forms" such as stealth to spice up gameplay.
The heart of the game is objective mode, where 2 teams face off in a map with unique goals and win conditions. Modes such as deathmatch are also available, and can be very entertaining.
Prices of upgrades and ships are controlled by the territory that your faction owns. Each win that you get in objective furthers your factions advancement and territorial expansion, and can lower prices and open up new things to buy.
If you find yourself getting badly beaten in the beginning, remember that we all went through it :), learn from your opponents, and some day they'll be on the receiving end or a hyperbol!
It's fun, it's fresh, it's from a company that will pump out new fresh games if they get the resources (one guy is ex-blizzard!), and it's worth 20$ any day.