A fun first person shooter. Prepare to be frustrated by awful team mate AI. Cheats are almost required to beat hard!
The story line is about gods first creation. You see, it was too perfect, so he had to lock it up forever. You though, had to screw up everything and let it loose. Now, you're racing through different time periods trying to destroy it as a ghost? Well thats as close as I can get to what you are. You switch betweens your teammates who have different weapons and powers. The team mates.. are the real problem.
The WORST part about this game is how idiotic your allies are. They shoot, but not always at enemies. They aren't a big problem on Easy but if you're going for that 1000 points you have to beat it on hard. It's a bit hard if you want to play fair. See the problem is that your good old buddys die, a lot. If you're the last man standing and you die, its all over. Now this may sound easier, but it's not. You have to go through the hassle of constantly healing them. If you die you are transfered to a teammate. The issue is that the teammates you transfer to are usually taking a lot of fire, which means you are too, which means you'll die, which means you must repeat the process. You can cheat though and it doesn't feel that dirty. You can still die, no invinvibility. Basically using cheats slams the difficulty of hard to easy. The cheats effect your teammates too (tuh duh!). Beating in on hard is a pain if you want to be an angel though, which really frustrates me.
Another thing that bugs me are how unnecessary some of the powers are. They really aren't needed. You have a few handy ones (ghost bullets, blood ward, flame spirit), but some of the powers are just used for puzzles, rare puzzles at that. Most powers seem kind of thrown in and could have been more well thought out.
The third and final complaint is a small one. The load times. Load times can last from 10-40 seconds, also if you are on the Xbox Live Menu (or whatever it's called) the game doesn't load at all, which kind of urks me. I can't change my gamer pic while it loads? Suckage, Major suckage. This complaint is only minor seeing as there aren't that many load screens.
All these complaints and no positives. I seem mean. I do enjoy this game. I find the enemies very fun and well spread out. Level design is pretty strong as well. They are all bleak and depressing, but they are designed well. Voice-overs are pretty impressive (though some lines get an 11 out of 10 on the corny meter: "When I get out of here, I'm gonna eat your soul!). I also find that, while it's not get Silent Hill, the game can throw some chills in once in a while.
Overall, the game can be frustrating, but if you're all done with Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 fever, this one should be checked out. Watch out though, replay value is low so you might want to rent it.