Have the RUS copy, and 'tis an awesome game.
As it stands, there's some english translation "mods" available, but I haven't really looked into them. There's talk at GSC that they make the game fairly playable for those that don't understand RUS.
Either way, I plan on picking up the NA release, which is still slated for the first week of Feb (the date keeps getting bumped around). Although, I think it's a little BS on the publisher's part to have released the localized versions so far apart. German was released first, followed by the RUS release, then the Polish release, then the Czech version (IIRC). WW/EUR is still not released, and neither is NA - although WW/EUR will be released first.
Overall it's an excellent game. Extremelly stable. I have yet to run into a single CTD or other issue, and very few others have had problems. There is one patch for the RUS release already, and it supposedly fixes some very, very rare issues. A second patch is planned for release before the end of the year, and no further patches (unless absolutely needed). The NA release will contain both patches already installed. Either way, you can look forward to probably one of the most solid and non-glitchy games of the last few years . . . the only users I know of who've had problems are those that have been using a pirated copy with fixed .EXE cracks - and our recommendation has been the same throughout: "Buy the friggin game."
Gameplay is very much a cross between SoC and CS. More - the gameplay of SoC mixed with the visuals of CS.
i played that game on a 1.8ghz athlonxp and 256MB radeon 9600
