Thread resurrection!
Picked this up for a fiver recently in a Gamersgate sale, and it's surprisingly good. Had to patch, unnoficial patch, find original Russian sound files, patch them, and then overwrite with an english voiceover patch, but it's finally working ok.
It's a weird game - quirky controls, insanely ambitious amount of content, and it almost pulls it off. Remarkably bug free by the devs previous standards, looks gorgeous, and has that wonderful randomness to it that most AAA titles lack - everything's not scripted to hell and back.
My only real gripe so far is the terrible translation. You get the meaning well enough, but it's like they've just fed it through bablefish. Which they probably did. It's a bit of an immersion breaker when such detail has gone into everything else.
It's also not an easy game - even on the first planet wandering out into the desert on foot will almost certainly get you killed, and even in a buggy there are animals that can overturn it if they catch you. This isn't a bad thing though
It also has a full faction system, so there's nothing to stop you ruining your game if you accidently hit a town guard during a fight where some raiders follow you right into town and start shooting (actually happened to me at one point, luckily the quicksave rotates through 3 slots). You can shoot anyone, the game doesn't protect against stupidity.
Very much worth a look if you see it cheap, if :
you're prepared to do a bit of work to get it working properly
you don't mind rough edges and rougher translation
you have the patience to work out the game's deep but sometimes obsure systems
Edit : RPS have done a Wot I Think :
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/04/wot-i-think-precursors/
, looks fun though!
