THE GOOD: Smoothly running graphics, Easily controllable ship even if you just use the arrow keys and don't use all the 'yaw left, yaw right bullshit'. Non-compu game geeks can figure it out pretty quickly. Levels become more and more difficult.
THE BAD: Your wingmen are lame and predictable. You can blow them to smithereens. (Well, maybe that's a GOOD thing...) Their comments are cheezy, and after 3 days of playing the game, I already have all of their comments memorized and I am NOT a computer game geek.
SUMMARY: I don't know how this would run on a slower computer, but it certainly moves like it should on a 1.7 GHz computer. No breaks in the video, etc. You don't have to turn off the stupid comments of your wingmen just to get smoother video on a pentium 4.