BGE sets an example of how adventure games should be made.
But there is something about it that just nulifies all these shortcomings, and its the quality and the quantity of love that has been poured into it.
You can feel it from the very first scenes where jade is doing yoga, and very calm tune is playing that youre going to have an amazing expierience.
The developers were forcing me to understand and immerse myself in the story, and i liked it, because it kept me wanting more. i am tired of brainless games wich only goal is to aim and shoot (gta).
as for gameplay, i cant say its perfect, i do agree that the combat system lacked a bit, i was expecting more, but the introduction of stealth was nice. and the combat that went in the vehicles was really awesome, from battling alien serpents with a hovercraft, to shooting down alien shuttles in outer space, so in terms of quantity and depts, it was all good, from combat, to the perles, to taking photographs of the animal life on the planet (wich i found it to be a trully original idea).
The graphics were really eye catching, like the glowing of the water as ur passing above it in the hovercraft.
One more thing, the thing that made me love it even more, was because it was hard.