the issues with the game not starting is mostly because you have quad channel ram.

if you look in the community hub there should be a fix to this

I love this game, its just under 4GB and delivers great post apocalyptic AI stuff, every gun refects this nature of the game, there are tons of guns you get when you progress the storyline including flame guns and crazy laser gunS, guns also have great animations, sound effects and smoke effects especially considering this game was launched in 2007. The story is very well paced and engaging. My favourite thing is alot of emotional moments especially in the beginning including a soldier helping a nearly dead soldier, game giving you a chance to save an NPC, your companion dying in front of you, watching a soldier of your team trying to help you but getting shreaded into pieces in the process and you get to see it and you cant do anything to save him. Only issue is in 2026 due to the old nature of the game some users fail to load this game due to some technical problems but luckily there is a fix in steam communities, feel free to google it. Just search ' time shift stuck in loading screen and open the steam community link.'

THIS GAME DESERVED ALOT OF EYEBALLS, IT'S A GREAT GAME, MAYBE THE TIMING THIS GAME WAS RELEASED BECAME THE REASON FOR IT'S COMMERCIAL FAILURE.