i got it earlier today basically on a whim... i REALLY wish it had 3rd person but whatever... anyway, the gameplay itself is decent. the single player story though is absolute clown world. i haven't seen a single white dude and the characters are so far up diversity's butt that it ended up in conformity colon. the "characters" are superficially different but are basically all the same personality. even the alien races basically act and talk the same way.
i mean, i think an interesting study could be done on how individual systems tend to generate it's own sense of style and communication, i.e. siblings will tell the same kinds of jokes, groups of friends tend to dress alike, etc. if a writer was trying to point out how the unit you identify with has a stronger pull than where and how you grew up, that would make sense... like if they were exploring the Bad Batch from the clone wars, or something...
but that's got NOTHING to do with why they are all the same. they are all the same because these people absolutely refuse to consider anything outside their echo chamber. the rebel pilots are part of ECHO WING for crying out loud...