Max payne meets far cry meets complete and utter crap...
El matador had the potential to be an amazing game, no doubt about it, senseless killing, tonnes of bad guys to shoot, and a amazing physics engine that makes shootouts interesting to watch... unfortunatly, there are many problems wth this game that make it fail at what it does. You pretty well play as a DEA agent going after drug bosses or something like that, not that I really paid attention to the story, because it was all over the place and never made any sense... The problem with the game is that it puts you up against a never ending amount of enimies, that somehow, know where you are at all times, and somehow, can hit you with every bullet the shoot at you... So I found it hard to enjoy the game with dying every two bloody seconds... I actually had to use cheats to get through this game, (note typeing health, or weapons in the console (~) gets you infinite health and all the weapons)
after cheating my way through this way-to-short shoot-em-up I have actually decided that I like this game very much...
Im not kidding, sure you may need cheats, and the enimies really, just stand there... and have no real AI at all (besides occasionally throwing grenades you throw back at you) but it is actually pretty fun given the fact that you just shoot everything in sight.
If the modding community would mabye mod some new levels and tone down the difficulty, this game would actually be pretty decent, in a fact that It is exactly like max payne, just with better graphics...
And ignore gamespots screenshots that look like crap, because it looks way better than that on my computer..