Ignore the low scores if you are an action/horror fan. The game is solid.
The game is about a squad of paranormal soldiers, with each having their own different weapons and abilities. Weapons span from a chain gun to a samurai sword and with abilities like a flame spirit which devourers your enemies or the ghost bullet, which is you controlling a bullet trough psychic powers.
You start out as the squad leader captain Ross, and your team is on its way to a city that has just appeared in the desert. Something then happens and then you get the ability from a push of some simply buttons to change between the different characters in the game. That makes for a lot of variety in the gameplay.
The story is then; your squad is on the hunt for the firstborn, who is pretty much god's unwanted child :) You start in the present day, and then on the hunt for the firstborn, you go trough different eras in time, from eras like the World War 2 era, battling evil Nazis, and the roman era destroying gladiators.
Jericho is a very linear game, it sure isn't Far cry or Crysis, but I had a very good time with it. I enjoyed the story a lot, very unique for an fps game. The gameplay was also very fresh and unique because you could switch between the different characters and then approach a situation in what way you want. The only real problem I had with the game was that your team-mates died a lot and you had to run around reviving them. But that's pretty much it, the rest of the time I was very entertained.
Don't expect it to be a BUUUUH game like doom 3, think of it as Call of duty's intense gameplay in a very distrurbing Clive barker world, because I was rather surprised to see how intense the fire fights in the game was.
+ Character switching makes for a fresh and diverse gameplay experience
+ Extremely good visuals
+ Clive Barkers imagination
- Your team-mates will die A LOT