terrible graphics, slow/jerky framerate, boring maps. really a console game for 10 year olds who dont know better.
I spent 3 hours tweaking gameplay settings on this game and absolutely couldn't get anything even remotely playable by today's standards. i had people warping 10 feet in front of me, huge framerate slowdowns in even moderately graphically intense regions. It was unfixable. I thought for a while well maybe its time for a computer upgrade. But the big exception to this was the extremely low graphic level already present. Its like asking me to upgrade my computer to play an inferior game to ones that already look and play better. There is no upside, the programming in this game is just bad. It looks like a weak console port played on a dialup server. Really.
Single Player: I've enjoyed single player in similar games although I generally never play them more than once. This follows the standard stuck in a trench with some dudes, fighting the endless spawning enemy while I try to do the specific gameplay thing it wants me to do. Single players like crysis or far cry are so superior its not even comparable. This particular one has a particular annoying nauseation feature going for it, with endlessly exploding camera shaking, non-stop action, followed by grim torture sequences and needless gore. The only upside is that some of the areas and cutscenes are pretty cool.
Multiplayer: This really is my chief complaint. Yeah you can do some cool stuff with individualizing your guy, and its nice to have prone/lean back. The maps are pleasantly large. The positives really end there. Super cookie cutter boxlike map construction reminds us more of level design 10-15 years out of date and most importantly. Terrible coding = weird cartoonlike graphics with unplayable framerate loss.
I've been monitoring gamespot for years and have gotten many many good recommendations from them. But this is sorely overrated. I am very dissappointed with this game.