In 2024, the game is starting to show its age- however its still one of the best cinematic, fresh real time action rpg-like, space operaish games of our lifetime excluding any opinion of the sequels. Certain elements like voice dialogue sometimes feel strange and slightly out of place at times by today's standards, however the overall robustness of gameplay still holds up somewhat better then modern titles of the current era of pc games. If this was 2010, easy 5 stars but I have to give it a 4, as even with the newer legendary edition which includes 1 2 and 3, the game is starting to show its age heavily as the years will pass and at least to me doesn't have the same nostalgic punch as titles like Half-life 1 + 2, but it's not a bad game in any regard either.