Uninspired cliché-ridden and frustrating excuse for a game.
The graphics are good looking, and the music tries hard to build tension, but fails when all the voice acting is delivered without any sense of urgency, mainly being devoid of any emotion and delivered in a normal tone. When you throw a grenade at the feet of an enemy soldier he merely points out "Grenade", and takes one or two steps to the right to avoid directly stepping on it, as if he was out foraging for mushrooms in the forest (perhaps he was just amazed that it actually landed right where I had intended it to go, the throwing and bouncing algorithms could do with some work). Every bad guy also gives continuous status reports about whether his shots hit me or not, even when we are the only two people present. Well, thanks for the information.
All the basic sci-fi style weapons are available for collection, but you can rarely carry anymore than two, as the inventory is rather cramped and uses a group of unintuitive Deus Ex style grids to sort your items. The program does a poor job of sticking small items into it, just plopping them at the first suitable place, leaving you to shift them around one more time to make room for larger items.
The controls are a bit quirky until you get used to them, and you will probably want to memorize the quick load button, as you can expect to get killed a lot. Although you use the same weapons as the enemy their proficiency and skill at range are unmatched.
It is little niggles like these that chip away from the fun factor. Like any good 1950's car, Chrome needs a lot of polish. Overall the game gets the job done, so if you really are dying to try out yet another generic sci-fi shooter give it a go, otherwise there are plenty of better games around, Red Faction being the most obvious competitor.