Indigo Prophecy: How to go from pleasant surprise to dumfounded confusion in under 15 hours.
The game mechanics are great. The action sequences are all prerendered, and you have to play a sort of quick reflex version of simon says in order to complete them. In fact, the majority of the game unfolds in clever mini games.
The part that doesn't is puzzle solving. I was impressed with how much things carried throughout the game. If you find a book in the first chapter, you're still using it for clues later on in the game. This contributed to the movie-like feel the entire game had. Coupled with the music and visuals, and I think the game would be just as enjoyable to watch as it was to play.
Unfortunatly, the game began to get a bit confusing half way through. A single mysterious adversary grew into all sort of shady groups of ancient semi-gods that have been controlling the world for all time. Then Artificial Intelligence was thrown in as an enemy for no reason.
By the end of the game, I felt like someone had crammed together a decent sci-fi mystery with a 10 year old's version of The Matrix. I don't regret playing through it, but it could have been so much better if they went with the original flow from the first chapters of the game.
There were a lot of extras, but none of them really interested me. Given the style of the game, there should have been a lot more endings (and more interesting endings at that) and bonuses than there were. By the end of a single playthrough I had more bonus points to buy bonuses (such as "making of" movies) than there even were in the game.
All in all, if you're a sci-fi or roleplaying fan, I would definitly reccomend renting it. But don't buy it until you make your way all the way through the game once, because you may just end up dissapointed.