just one more mediocre shooter.
1. Graphics: I think we should forget the word "graphics" already when we talk about a game. The game definitely looks like a "graphics" i.e. a comics illustration, cartoon screenshot, a something that was drawn by a hand of an artist with an ink and watercolor.
The colors, like in many modern games, looks unrealistic and restricted: brown, gray or indigo. Seems they still keep working in restricted palette of old consoles. Colors actually so off so it's not immediately clear whether you go down a river or it's an orange lava stream in the last scene of the game.
Materials in the game looks plastic and props like but I had not expected a lot from a game that is a clone from consoles with their few texture memory.
Lighting is not bad but gives to many flashy spots everywhere including weird silhouettes around characters and doesn't have an adaptive feature like many other games have. It seems sometimes that they probably would be able to reach more realistic appearance with less advanced engine and all those modern HDR etc. are used in some wrong way.
The only good things visually I can mention is characters design and animation and a few winter scenes which looks quite good.
2. The gameplay: It's the same simple shooting as it was in the beginning of FPS genre. We have so many better examples since. The game have a few fresh inventions like ice climbing, waterfall falling etc. but during most of its time the game is too linear and repetitive for my taste. You have almost no option for doing something in your own discretion that makes no sense to play it second time. Even your combat tactic is quite predetermined. You should go there, then take that and so on. Think the gameplay can be compared with "Ghost Recon advanced warfighter" That game has much better game mechanics with so many variants to complete a mission so you can play it again and again.