This game has a high heft factor, you get a lot in the box for the money, A large two-sided map board, ten very well painted miniatures, character sheets, loads of counters and a beautiful rule book. The artwork is lovely, and very evocative of the (imaginary) period. The rule book is especially good, and is an easy read, describing events and ideas in the game first, rather than launching straight into the game sequence, which makes it very easy to learn. All the rules are summarised in red, making it easy to scan for rules clarification during play.

Although it initially looks like another minis game such as Star Wars Miniatures (which I really like as well), it has it's own uniqueness to make it worth looking at. The first thing you notice is the board, which is overlaid in a series of circles in various colours. Each colour represents an area such as a room or corridor, and if two minis are on the same colour, then they can see (and shoot at) each other. No more complicated line of site. Some areas of colour are smaller than others, neatly representing the restricted view in a dark corner or a dingy corridor. Combat is decided by D10s, you roll the number of dice equal to your Combat value, and have to get equal or better than your target's Stamina value. The target makes a saving throw in a similar manner, which neatly allows for the various characters to be represented in a simple manner. This all makes the game flow well, and when you're familiar with the rules you can play very quickly.

Another interesting feature of the game is the way you can customise your character's equipment. Each person has four spaces on their character card, and there are various tokens to represent different weapons, equipment and abilities. Each token has a picture of the associated character on it, each character having three sets of three tokens, along with a special weapon unique to them. When you're familiar with the game these tokens may be switched around, allowing you to customise your troops to suit your style of play. There are also several crate tokens on the map which can be opened for extra goodies, and Fantasy Flight are releasing extra tokens via download from their website on a monthly basis.
As well as specific missions you can play the game as all-out "kill 'em all", as well as "Capture the Flag" and "Domination" games, familiar to those players of video games.
There are extra characters on the way and along with the download elements and the more usual expansions there's a lot of future in this game.