Immersive without being too heavy, short enough not to get boring or repetitive. You should not miss this!
I`m very hard to please with commercial entertainment. Most movies are boring to me, most first person shooters and real time strategies are monotonous and soulless, while most RPG`s are much too heavy and pretentious.
This game felt absolutely perfect for me. And I actually can`t stand Sci-fi in general.
But this game was about a very likeable character`s personal quest, whom I was very much able to identify with.
Once this foundation was there, I was able to be immersed in the details of the gameplay. Nothing too heavy, cos it`s a first person shooter, you don`t need to waste your time and energy on `building` a character, because it`s already given, and it`s a great character. You can just get on with the mission.
Technically I had a few issues with graphics. Most importantly, Anti-aliasing is below par in the game, in fact I needed Nhancer to enable it, but even at max setting, there is still plenty of aliasing. Must be traces of the original Xbox port. Then, frame rates dropped very heavily occasionally in areas of rich lighting effects. I wasn`t expecting this with a 8800GT.
All in all, this is a great gaming experience, immersive but not too consuming, and doesn`t ever get boring.