This game is the embodiment of everything you could ever want in an action adventure game. Amazed.
The action is beyond entertaining with an amazing story. The characters are immediately engaging, and you find yourself caring about them to the point where you can't get enough. The visuals will make you want to just look around an area once you've completed an objective just to look at the detail or the backgrounds, the environment and the animations.
The gameplay varies in so many ways that it's one of the first games I've played in a long time where you have so many options on how to defeat your enemies, that there's little to no monotony in the game. Once you do start to get into a pattern, the game throws you for a loop and you have to go about advancing in a totally new and fun way.
I can't even do this game justice by trying to describe it any further. GO OUT AND BUY THIS GAME. You cannot afford to not own this game. If you are skeptical and feel you need to rent it and beat it, you'll buy it anyway after the fact.
The few issues that GameSpot describes are non-existant in the game. I've never come across any of the problems mentioned.
There are only 2 things that bothered me about this game... I WANT MORE!!! The game was the perfect length, mind you. It wasn't too short, and it can give you days of enjoyment. Most games like this I can beat in a matter of a day or two. Playing on hard makes the experience last even longer and even more fun.
The only thing that plagued this game was a horrible release date. It was lost in the mix of other big titles around the time. TRUST ME, you will never meet me, you will never get to know me, but please, do yourself a favor, listen to me, and buy this game.
I can only hope that they are already planning a sequel. Hopefully enough people will buy this and they will greenlight another one. I honestly don't know the numbers, but I hope they're high! And I hope that this review and others like it show the developers that even though the game may have been lost in the mix of the release date parties, it deserves recognition. You won't be sorry.