Saw the cover in K-mart way back in 2003, bought it there and then. Was too impatient to even bother reading the book, just installed it and started playing... and playing and playing... only thing that kept me from playing on-line was the lack of a decent internet cap.
Looked the game up on Wikipedia while looking for a sequel years later. Said there was a strong mod based following, so I looked up some mods and found this was the closest thing to a sequel to sp's storyline, so downloaded Discovery.. so here I am now.