Again, Gamespot call is wrong.
The game takes you in immediately, with cinematics and superb acting all the while taking you on a tutorial to learn the games mechanics. I think they get some hyped up junior or a tainted reviewer who just feels these types of games are a waste of their time and they rather be off performing repetive mouse button tapping in Doom 3.
If you love story driven games with great graphics and wonderful gameplay, then this is it. Otherwise waste your life listening to the reviews of gamespot which I grow to ignore more and more every day.