If not the best. I played the demo first from a PC Gamer disc and that was it. I was 100% hooked. I had to wait until christmas though and yes, I got the game. Still have it in the original big box in pretty good shape. I dig it out from time to time to just look at it and I get all warm inside. So many good moments in this game. An advice for anyone that hasn't played this game yet is to just play it without a guide and solve all the puzzles on your own. I played the first half-ish without a guide and the last half with a guide and even though it was mindblowing throughout, it was more satisfying before I used the guide.
I think it was my mom who got a computer through her job many years ago, and this was one of the games that followed. Being a fan of games such as Battlezone and earlier star wars spaceship games I thought cool, a space game but I remember not expecting much. I was ofcourse oblivious to the greatness of this game. Everything (was)is great about it, especially the story. I think this was the first game I played where you could actually get "achievements" or medals as they are ingame. I tried to play every mission pixelperfect just to get every medal back then and I still do today :) I'm just thrilled that a site such as GOG exists and brought me this game again on Vista.