As long as you install the fixes, it's worth getting at some stage just to appreciate what it does well.  At the moment, though, IMHO the Impulse price is excessive (GG have already had on on next-to-nothing sale more than once).  I'm not sure quite what you mean by 'like this', but assuming you already have the standards like X3TC and Freespace 2 (now available again at GoG) you could do a lot worse than Evochron Mercenary provided you are happy with free play rather than a strongly written campaign.   Superb game, with a choice of physics models.