I got this game for christmas and i've finally finished it and earned well most everything.... there is a lot to do. The game starts off pretty slow as you are a trainee, a nugget. Your squad captain had gone up on a training the nuggest mission previously to the start of the game and was attack. He had lost all but one of the nuggest becuase he was attacked by an enemy squardrant. You captain gets shot down becuase of one of your wingmans recless flying and your chracter with the callsign "Blaze" is made the squadrant cpatin. THe story gets deeper and progressivly more interesting as it goes along. The starting characters do change as the game goes a long due to some events and other unforseen things. The missions in the game can be frustratinging, and in some cases seemingly impossible.... but, after shattering both my controllers and putting one of them back togeather(HAHA IT WORKS STILL W00T!!) I beet the game. well it takes a long time to complete the game do to the amount of missions and the nice videos... the very nice videos. The voice acting in the game uses a lot of familiar voices, i've herd Faye vallentive, Jet, Spike, and Vash, there might be others but I don't recognize them. As the game goes on u can earn metals too. the gold medals are very hard to earn the only one i've obtained is the Gold Ace which is 1000 enemies deystroyed. Other medals are in the game aswell like Wingman, which is obtained by deystroying enemies while they target your wingman. This game is a hell of a lot better than its predicesors.