all the style and flash quickly fades away after a while and the game seems to lose it's spark

User Rating: 6.5 | Black (Platinum Hits) XBOX
Right off the start this game looks great. interactive environment, cool guns, and lots of explosions. After a while the flashy Hollywood gun battles start to get boring and just plan unrealistic. Yuo can charge into a crowd of 5 guys with an uzi and just slaughter everyone, I suppose this could be done but the whole you're doing this you are being absolutely murdered by enemy fire. The enemy A.I and hit point system is really bad. You can shot a guy point blank, with an M-16, 5 times before he dies. There's a few more little things that can be very annoying, such as hidden guys that will continuosly shoot at you and never reveal themselves, and you never have a clue where they are shooting from. Also there are 15+ objectives that are available be completed in every level, but you never know what the objective is, so you'll complete a level and it will say that you missed a whole bunch of objectives, and you failed the mission, but you never know what the objectives are until you complete them. In conclusion it can be a very fun game with it's guns and destructive environments, but after a few levels it becomes very blaw and routine. It's a alright game to rent for a week or so, but I wouldn't suggest buying it.