My brother stopped playing it because of an exploration concept he dislikes, but as he described it to me I don't like it either. He searched a house and a box inside that house and there was nothing inside that box. But when he found a note on some corpse about a guy who hid something inside...
I hope that the story will be told from some form of logs or diaries, like the audio logs from System Shock 2. That was awesome, you could actually hear the crew members being transformed to the Many.