Other than the fact this is one of the few games with split screen co-op AND split screen multiplayer, it's garbage.
Like the story of the optimistic boy who searched the manure because he figured their must be a pony in it somewhere, you will find yourself in a similar situation as you go work through haze.
Basically, if you list all the elements of the game and rated them its a pretty solid mediocre effort. I don't know the details, but from the designer interviews I got a sense they were trying to create a new engine to run these kind of games on, so maybe this whole thing was really a hyped up experiment. I notice most games have the "UNREAL" engine logo at the start up, so maybe the plan is to compete with that. Given the results, I would hope they are competing on price, not quality.
So we got ourselves a so-so game, but it has split screen co-op and it even allows split screen co-op online multi-player - this is why I bought it. But here is the killer - this so-so game is bundled in one of the dumbest, most pathetically executed stories. How many times can we listen to the rebel guy yelling in a Spanish accent "Remember your Promise to Moreno" (or whatever his name is, I can't care). We could go on and on with the stupidity. Why are the rebels Hispanic anyway? Why not, I dunno, Polish or Swedish... oh, that would have taken a speck of imagination.
I'll bet everyone has there own favorite STUPID HAZE MOMENT - I think mine is after our main character kills 100's and 100's of nectar dependant soldiers, on the final assault he suddenly decides its no longer nice to kill them. Well, it's hard to relate just how dumb that comes off without having to grind through this painful story.
This game is really actually over-rated, as low as the critics scores have been. We are all hungry for a satisfying new FPS. There were so many titles so far this year, but here we are...not just hungry but STARVING for a FPS that rocks our world.
Give UBISOFT credit for holding back the release of this one - I would never have bought it except I needed something to get some co-op play while I wait for something good (Resistance 2 ??? )
But let's be clear - there is no pony hidden in this manure...