The ship is a great game!
Now it gets better. While you are on the prowl... and being stalked... you must maintain your sleep, hygene, stamina, and social life thru meters that let you know when you need to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom and shower and alot more. Interaction with other characters is also a must for social skills as well. If you fall behind in any of these tasks... you are basically going to pay dearly with your life or in some other way. Also if you get seen by any of the crew or by security cameras or other people committing a crime... you will find yourself in the jail and get fined heavily! The case you earn from each kill is used for food and drink and other things... so you need to make sure that you are very cautious about how and where you commit the crime.
You also can purchase new clothing and other items to disquise yourself so that your stalker can walk by you and you remain unnoticed. I have only played for about 2 hours now but do find this game alot of fun. There is an online version you get when you purchase the full game that allows you to play against other people all over the world... thus making the game alot more fun I hear. I also see that there are several ships in the game and not just the first one so that as well should add to making this a great game to play.
The graphics are not outstanding but still are very nice. Nothing too flashy here just well done. The graphics kind of remind me of the original Alone in the Dark but with a modern twist to ramp them up. THere is not alot of stuff laying around to clutter the scene... but more just decorative here and there. I am running it on a very high end system and have the graphics turned up all the way with all of the options and am having no problems at all. It would seem that the developers main goal was the gameplay and not the graphics so much. That personally is fine with me because so many times do you see a game that has awesome graphics but a horrible storyline. This seems middle of the road for both. I did however like the sound effects over the ship as you play. Things seem very realistic when you enter a bathroom for instance and you get that echoing sound effect... then you enter a lounge and get that deafening effect. Very well balanced is what they did. I even noticed that when you hear music and walk away you can hear it way off in the distance as you leave. Very nice touch there.
Check out the listing here on Gamespot... make a decision for yourself... but from the reviews I have read and the gameplay I have done... I personally think this game is well worth the $20.00 I payed for it.