I really wanted this game to be amazing.
With that said, I saw this game and was very excited to give it a try. Gamestop even talked me into pre-ordering the game calling it the "Call of Duty killer." Though I've heard that line before, I wanted to believe it was true. I was sold.
I picked it up on it's release date, but didn't play it until the next day, mainly because I tried playing multiplayer right off the bat, and couldn't get into a room. I was a bit turned off, but was still hopeful the multiplayer would be better than Call of Duty's.
I finally got into a game, and felt like I just entered a war zone, and I mean that in the worst way possible. There are so many people in a given room, that it's hard to get anything accomplished. I'm not big on camping, and hoping for someone to come to me so I can make quick work of them. It's just not fun. So I picked the assault class and started running around trying to find people to light up. While I did well and have been doing well each time I'm in a room, It gets really frustrating when you're put up against 16 enemies, and about 10 of them are sniping from various parts of this massive map. It makes it pretty tough to move, let alone find an enemy who isn't camping.
Which brings me to my next point. I thought having a ton of people playing on one map would be awesome, it's not. It's so hectic, you get lost in the game, and it takes away from the personal level of a shooter where you develop a kind of vendetta against one or two players on the other team and you try to target them. That's a huge piece that's missing from the game, and you don't realize other games have that vibe until you play in a massive game like this.
The graphics in this game are really rough as well. I saw videos for the previews, and figured they were choppy just because that's how the video turned out. They are actually pretty accurate. The graphics are like an old school computer game. I expected a lot more for a game on a super machine like the PS3. There's really no excuse for the graphics.
Single player has it's moments and the story is unique, but overall it's very average and doesn't have much of a replay value.
I suggest playing the game at a buddies house or renting it before you invest in purchasing the game. Sixty dollars for a game that feels like it's not complete is pretty steep.