Not your ordinary shooter, it's much better!
The game is a well rounded experience, with plenty of shooting action, lots of destruction, and a respawn system that makes your death a bit harmful to your side (you lose reinforcement points).
The maps are arranged in such a way that it's like a single sided tug-of-war, where you have the offensive vs the defensive. If he offensive side beats the defensive in a certain area, the defense will fall back and need to protect another area. This is actually a good thing because of how destructive the maps are, moving like this opens up fresh buildings and obstacles every 10 minutes or so. This will happen until the last area is lost, or one of the sides runs out of reinforcement points. The destruction is top-notch, plenty of walls and things to destroy in every map. You destroy enough of the building and the whole thing can come down. What is great about the destructible terrain, is that let's say your noticing the both entrances to the objective are covered by a lot of enemy soldiers. You can just use some handy C4 or a well placed grenade to open a new doorway for you (aka blow up the wall). You can surprise people inside by quickly following that with running through the smoldering debris with your weapon blazing.
You have plenty of ways to customize your character, ranging from the main gun type, hand gun, packages and bonuses. As you play you will gain rank and unlock more additional options. The game is a lot of fun and there is plenty to do, I recommend this game to anyone who has enjoyed the Battlefield series, as well as anyone looking for a new type of battle game with destructible terrain.