Keep your night light on!
This game is not for the feint of heart, it is graphic and gory! If you are frightened easily and are not used to wandering through dark corridors and musty buildings, keep a night light on. I found myself literally jumping out of my seat and pausing the game from such extreme and sudden bursts of fright that this game delivers around ever corner in the game. Mangled, scarred, and bloody enemies exhibiting fits of rage did not help either, bashing their skulls in with whatever I could pick up off the floor or yank off a wall did.
I'm going to go ahead and rate the difficulty of this game as Hard. Hard because the game is damn near impossible without blocking melee attacks or ducking behind cover (in gunfights). If you cannot get used to doing this dont expect to get past the first level. Health restoring bottles of medicine are present, sometimes scarce, but not in extreme abundance, so not doing the above can be a problem when it comes to completing the level.
The locations in the game are extremely unique to any game I've previously played. Among the locales are a doll factory, an abandoned school, and a hauntingly creepy everything.
I'm going to make a note of Gamespot's review of the game by highlighting the gunplay as a 'Bad' aspect of the game. Well what can you expect from a melee based plastic sealed gem. This has got to be the most BS note of the game because I have an idea they want to compare it to Halo... Wandering through an apartment, .32 revolver in hand is as real as you can get, enemies stumbling back from the force of the round penetrating their bodies is convincingly real too.
Buy this game, if my review has highlighted aspects of the game that appeal to you then this more than likely is a title befit of finding itself sliding into your PS3's disc tray.
Oh one more thing! Multiplayer. It's just not there and I'm for real when I say this. Good luck finding more than 2 or 3 servers at a time. Another feature of the game is the Bloodshot arena. Up to my knowledge of the game as of now (I've beaten the game) completing the challenges do little of anything aside from honing your skills in combat, working on improving that steady thumb of yours when It comes to throwing stuff, and passing the time or competing with a friend for a record time, these really aren't worth playing.
Aside from a few minor dings, this car is show floor material. Happy gaming!