三部曲中的第二部，开头没字幕没听懂发生了什么，看后期剧情似乎是在和外星人的斗争中失败了所以去了浮岛，比第一部多了很多种族，一开始蜂巢人，生化人，灵能人，人类，后面出现了个异教会对抗人类，再后来又出了个和第三部中兽人模型很像的种族，忘了叫啥了，在后面出来了个星魂种族，最后才发现所有的一切都是一个叫墨米可的生物引起的，剧情还是很不错的，缺点就是时间太长了，是三部曲中耗时最久的一部，研究和开发太慢了，而且第二部中的异教会和科学家还会出现在第三部幽浮余晖里面，在第三部联系地球的时候就会出现。还有就是最后一个任务那三条虫子打死后太恶心了，吓我一跳。再也不想玩第二遍了。

I brought this game first time around 2008-2009 and still have its disc (didn't play it for long time).
When saw it on steam for few euros I wanted to add it into collection.

Only because good time back then I am not writing harsher review.

It is not OS compatibility or hardware that is causing problems.
Not to mention annoying launcher!!

Game now simply can't be finished even after patching to 1.3 and playing from beginning as 1.3 because something in it messed with triggers and events. Beside that bad ragdoll physics, freezing and game crashing, list doesn't end.
Even if you hack save or gamedata you will just bypass one of many issues.

I found posts where research "Cultist threat" never appears because its trigger doesn't trigger and that follows with story line research block and impossibility to finish game. I managed to hack and get this research and finish it but block again. Because something else too is needed to progress.

I tried for few months to piece this together in free time but I am not willing to bugfix this game.

I clearly remember I finished game back then 2009 and tried to install it from cd to see will it work comparing to steam version.
No joy. Is it game or some external software that it uses it doesn't work on Win 11 (compatibility settings doesn't help).
It makes me wonder how I managed to finish it back then.
Accidental correct trigger execution? Who knows.

If you manage to finish this game consider yourself lucky.