Gamespot score doesnt do the game justice.. Great MMO for the somewhat more mature type of player
Graphics : There not state of the art, but its looks good enough at high resolution and you shouldnt play a MMO for the graphics..
Sound : the backgroundsound is nice but will get annoying obviously.. other sounds like shooting, paincry's and so forth are bad.. They should have put more effort in to this.
Difficulty : Its not that hard. Problem is that you start slow and dont know precisely what to do and that takes time and adjusting. Leveling takes a long time. I think its a good difficulty to keep the 8-year olds out of the game.
Gameplay : The game itself plays very good. Sure there still bugs and glitches but most have been taken care of and you must give it some time to get used to it. The world is immensely big and youre playing with all players in one server. Many many quests and you get sufficient help with them on the map. Also in the help-chat there is great help to be had. There is a good "feel" in the world that often lacks in MMO's.
Crafting : Crafting is a blast. There are so many options in things to make that this will keep you occupied for ages. You get experience from crafting so if you dont want to you can at a certain point stop fighting pve and just lvl on crafting things and selling them. Will take forever though :)
Fighting : Can fight with many things in many ways.. If you want you can go melee, this is straight forward against an opponent and hack away. Great about the game is fighting guns and rifles and crossbow's in FPS-view. True that real FPS's feels better shooting, but they did a great job in creating a entertaining different way of fighting. Haven't played PvP yet, but heard positive sounds about it.
Overall : Just a great game. Dont look at Gamespot's score cause most of those issues have been taken care of. Like the fall-out 3 world and want to play a completey different kind of MMO than you should try this one!