It’s even available on Steam officially nowadays.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/17550/
The game looks like a FPS/Space Combat combiner – I will surely check it out. It reminds me of a game I played on the first Xbox a while back were you played as a mercenary and in between the battles you had to fly around in your ship. You could even leave the controls and run around in your ship while it kept flying. I just don’t remember the name…
Edit: It was “Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_Griffin:_Bounty_Hunter
Space. The final frontier.