In space, no one can tell you it's been done before.
I enjoyed the way the game played. Very gritty combat, good controls and weapons that are very effective.
Although you are some poor sap stuck in the middle of space alone with a ship full of crazy demons and the undead...you take it rather well. You're supposed to be an engineer, an everyday guy. However there doesn't seem to be an option to interact with objects to duck under them and cry while cradling your knees.....which is what I assume an everyday person would do given the circumstances.
The music is fantastic, it works well and doesn't repeat itself like other large titles out there....this adds a great point of originality to it.
Overall the game is well executed and will thrill and impress everyone who plays it, the death sequences are particularly cool.
However....... Old school gamers will have a nagging sense of deja vu from the moment you pick this off the shelf.
Space. Alone. Monsters. "One man....ONE mission..." ...as Don Lafontaine would say. Come on...really? We've milked this genre so much it's teets hurts. Doom I, II, III...Quake I, II, III, IV...System Shock...Bioshock...etc etc etc.
This game doesn't deserve anything higher than a 6. For a game to reach the upper reaches of a good vote, it'd have to be ORIGINAL and full of genre destroying magicalness. Instead, what you have here is a beautiful re-rendition of something we've all seen for so long.
It's great, but it's nothing we haven't seen before.