It was a top down trading game where you drive your vehicle around a futuristic planet Earth trading and trying to understand the strange new slang of the future. Came out quite a few years ago, perhaps 4 years ago? No idea how popular it was, just that it was fairly different.
Was there FMV?
I only remember a demo of the game, so there may have been FMV. From the top down view it almost looked like Total Annihilation, or its engine at least, it had the same sort of 3-D from above view.
It sounds like you might mean Vangers
Sounds similar to my one of my all time favorites – Starflight. Course there was a lot more to it then just driving around on the surface of planets and trading. But that was a main part of it.
Welp, I feel old now.
Tell me about it! For me, an old PC game is the original Oregon Trail…geez…
I saw “Old PC Game” and immediately thought of 386 machines.
Bingo, that’s the one, thanks 
I thought even further back… shudders
I still remember my first “upgrade” … going from an amber monochrome to CGA 4-color goodness! I think they were called XTs back then – I would get a 286 AT with 16-color EGA about six months later. Yikes!
Is it time for me to retire yet?
Ah, the various ages of video games 
I can remember “big box” packaging, wherein my Doom collection came on 3CDs in a box that actually literally was the size of a cereal box.
I can just about remember boot disks and finding out how to get Win 95 to run a few games so not needing them.
I can’t remember anything less than VGA though.
I remember playing Infocom and not knowing about ANSI drivers, so there was always garbage on the screen.
I rememeber going ‘ooooooo’ when I saw the graphics in my first VESA game…
I remember playing TRACON on IBM’s back in 1988, and the monitors were the most basic color monitors around.
Of course, I remember playing Star Trek on an old UNIVAC mainframe in 1978, where you saw your position and that of the Klingons and Romulans on an old monochrome monitor. I’m pretty sure that one was programmed in BASIC.
Shall I stop now? 
Whippersnappers! I remember writing a computer game in 1975 - it generated crosswords with numbers as solutions and calculations as clues, all randomly generated. It ran under BASIC on a Honeywell mainframe over a remote teletype link (acoustic coupler modem).
That programme helped me to get a good pass in O-level Computer Science, the first year such a qualification existed. It was subsequently used by the school in maths classes for B- and C-stream students as “fun” practice in basic arithmetic.
By 1980 I was writing educational and schools administration software on an Apple II, the former being sort of game-oriented. Then I graduated college and got a job.
Pong.
(Help! I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!)
You know how you could tell someone had Pong in their house? There’d be a burn-in streak across the TV, from the first time they left it bouncing back and forth between the paddles.
Bah I remember Oregon Trail like it was yesterday, and Rocky’s Incredible Machine
Hell I remember the old Atari 2600, in fact I think my family might still own a working one. Now THAT was a quality gaming system. Oh yeah and the floppy disks that were ACTUALLY floppy that you needed like a whole stack of to install one game, that was fun.
You’re not kidding. I have [del]not-so[/del] fond memories of installing Windows 95 when it first came out. 30 floppy disks!
Anyone remember cassette tapes? I used to stare at a blue screen listening to 5 minutes-worth of beeps waiting for the cassette game to load up
And when 3.5" floppies went to High-Density? That was soooo awesome!