This game is fun, addictive and worth playing.
The gameplay as ive said is very enjoyable, fast and addictive. You have a good ammount of weapons and intelligent enemies to meet them. Your basic weapon is the assualt rifle but later on as u meet more enemies u can take their weapons for ur own. The enemies have interesting tactics - they will duck, run, manuvre themselves all over making it difficult to hit them, and in all they seem to be very intuned with what is going on. The best part of the game is its trademark - the charging shield. This incredible piece of hardware makes it so that u never have to pick up more shields since it refills itself everytime u have a second to spare and this saves u hours of frustration and is the best part of the game.
Unfourtunetly, the game's amzing gameplay is sometimes put to a hault in certain areas, where the gameplay becomes very repetitive and u find urself having not only to retrace ur steps but ur steps, well they seem to be identical - many rooms look alike and u have dosens of them.
Another flaw to my taste, is the enemies - u have only a small ammount of enemies and u end up having to fight them over and over again throughout the game.
Graphics:
The graphics are top notch. The landscapes shadows, effects, everything just looks great. You can see everything reflecting off ur weapon and when using ur assualt rifle u can actually vividly see the ammount of bullets u have left very clearly ontop of the weapon. Most everything is detailed wonderfully.
Sound:
The sound of the game fits the grahpics and the atmosphere, where u leap into an open area u hear chase music, when ur in a scary place u hear frightening sound... Most over this is an intuitive way to highten the enjoyment of the game. The best track in the game, is the one used mainly for the game's menue when u just turn on the game - its a chorus number that i will never forget, hear it for urselves.
Value:
Well this game definitly deserved the 50$ it cost when it came out 3 years ago, but now in 2006 when it still costs around 20$ (i guess i should be greatfull that its still on the shelves though), well this is kind of cruel.
All in all this game is one great step for FPSs and a revolutionary one at that. I had an amazing time playing this game, i never needed a use of a walkthrough like so many other games because everything just makes it so easy to make ur way aorund the game and wherver there are enemies, u know that thats where u have to go.
-I would recomend this game to anyone looking for a great time playing a game-