So, Russians, who are good mainly for two things (making vodka and flight sims), made a space flight sim called Star Conflict(open beta atm).
On the top, it looks like your every day space shooter sim, but this time Russians nailed something important: The feel.
You know, the feel you get when you forget you are on planet earth in the heat of the moment. Yeah, these days not many space sim's can do that. Sure, back when wing commander was awesome, the standards were not that high as today, so you might think back on the good memories. This game, however, looks promising to the pilots who love the heat of combat and is already far better than many previous tittles (and far better than in freelancer: you cant kill **** without snac).
Now to the downsides, its made on the WoT concept. But... the hope is not lost yet, as the devs are looking in to adding a sector mode and "free lance" type environment. So if all goes as planned, we will have instant action WoT style and economy oriented sector type environments. But, even with its current WoT structure, the space combat in here is most fun i had with space sim in ages. Definitely worth a try.
Word of warning: the game population is mainly Russian, but there is growing English speaking community, so dont be turned of by Russian runes in chat.