play if you're sick of a better FPS
I wanted to really enjoy this game but it simply cannot hold my interest nearly as much a good game should. I play a fair amount of games and expect there to be fantastic game play, beautiful art or a compelling story to really get me into the game. Even meeting one of the requirements is usually enough for me to really enjoy a game. This title falls short on all fronts in my opinion. The guns are boring and bland with run of the mill action and nothing that makes you say "cool" when you shoot it. The art and scenery are cookie cutter type stuff for the genre. When I say typical, I mean something you might expect to see on the SyFy network at 2 a.m. type typical. Boring type grunt enemies and the stronger they get *more hits they take* they simply get bigger, very predictable stuff. The story is also of the caliber of SyFy at 2 a.m. Relatively boring aliens invade, you are a lucky super survivor yet again and the maps are the perfect example of linear. The supposed twists and wow moments are about as predictable as fire is hot. One cut scene has a random soldier ahead of you talking while walking backwards and from the moment the scene engaged you knew not only was he going to die but in a very try hard gruesome way. Regarding the graphics they were pretty nice, but for a very typical FPS, where there is nearly nothing original that hasn't been done better the decent graphics mean virtually nothing.
