I'm typing this now while the game blabs on in yet another _way_ too long pause while I can do nothing but sit and watch. You never know quite when the game will suddenly plop control over the character to you (generally in mid-combat) nor when it will just as suddenly yank it away (also... in mid-combat). I find myself in a constant wrestling match with the software over who's playing. The graphics are dated and showing their age already, but when you can manage to win control over the main character long enough to play for a few min, it's a good time. The difficulty can be set from stupidly easy to nearly impossible. Obviously a lot of work went into this, but I really wish they had kept the cut scenes to only between chapters like the previous games rather that endless gameplay interruptions.