An awful awful awful game...
Many of the gaming magazines at the time couldn't say enough good things about it. I remember feeling like I had been duped after I got this game and played it for a few hours, and I realized that it was just a turkey wearing an eagles jacket.
From a technical standpoint it broke ground for the PS2 in that it was the first game that was able to display multitudes of characters on screen all at once without slowing the frame rate down.
From a game play viewpoint it was just awful.
It was so boringly repetitive that after only the first couple of missions I wanted to strangle myself being led down the primrose path by pre release gaming hype.
I learned a valuable and age old lesson from this game however, "Caveat Emptor" or "Let the buyer beware."