This game is pure gold! Played the demo when I was in elementary school but had no means of buying or getting games so now GOG.com made it possible. After all those years game is still pure gold! Game starts with 2 potatoids (potato people) then advances to some siren like creature and finishes with GODZILLA! You have jet-pack, you have weapon selection, you got TONS of humor, you got jet-pack, you got special abilities, procedural destruction for Gods sake and jet-pack. Only cons I see in this title is that its old so graphics is not too appealing but for me its still fine.
Game that kept me longest (excluding online games like WoW and LoL i played alot), while it didn't intrigue me with story of other titles like Dragon Age: Origins which I just adore, it's gameplay, exploration, challenge of success and finally reward of achieving goals is magnificent. I still remember my first Mün landing. I was hating sci-fi and after KSP I hate it even more because how unrealistic it is so I played a lot of Mount&Blade: Warband but after discovering this game I was just amazed how game I saw before and said "meh it's some sci-fi stupid space shit". First achievment I did was get in orbit and that feel of satisfaction, then mun landing and minmus, then Duna and somewhere about that point you just want mods and realism they offer, after that you dream about getting job in NASA or ESA because "LOOK AT ME I'AM ROCKET SCIENTIST!". Seriously, get this game and atleast try it.
Okay, we all played Uplink so how is this game compared to it? Close but wont catch it for sure. First when i started everything was AWESOME (still Uplink better) and had great fun UNTIL i discovered like TONS of game breaking bugs, not small-ones. MISSIONS ARE COMPLETELY BROKE! I cant advance my story as missions wont complete. Reason? I took more than one, at start I could take one only and complete but at CESC I took all I could (as I did in uplink) but they wont finish as I tried them all. I then when to jmail deleted all users, all my e-mails, all contracts of CESC and all of its users. Iam now stuck of not going anywere and quit the game. Until patches fix it, dont buy.