Ok game, But is as about as long as kates waist line, they could have made it as big as hurley's.
Anyway, the game starts when the series starts and follows the 1st and 2nd seasons events in the form of episodes, unfortunatley these episodes don't number into double figures, so u find yourself skipping alot of the key moments. So after you crash you have to do missions which are vital to the story line, then rinse and repeat. As far as i have found i haven't found any sub-plots, sub-missions, or any thing else that could flesh out game.
In a nutshell there are many many things they could have done with this, the enviroments are nice looking, but extremely spartan in terms of NPCs to talk to or even see, there are no more than 5 characters i think that inhabit each area, each of which are key figures in the show anyway and always seem to swap with the other half of the cast (i've haven't seen sawyer and charlie in the same area). As a result the game feels two dimensional and hollow like Shanons head.
Because of the short comings you long to go boar hunting with locke, tick off jack, or flirt with kate, go fishing with Jin, play ping pong with hurley, build yr own beach shelter, play golf, the list goes on and on.
Now onto the really bad; animations are rubbish, the lip sync is off, its way way too short, there aren't any extras that are interesting, locke just doesn't sound right at all, it feels rushed, its repetitive (even though its short), for some reason the "others" shoot at u from prepared positions from the very start which isn't consistent with the series, theres not enough action, its too easy, where are the other survivors. umm there are more but you'll find out.
The good; good story, in keeping with the lost franchise, character and voice acting is true to the show, the enviroments are very detailed and just like the series, there are some things revealed about the island thats not in the show (yet).
To sum up i would only rent this game, luckly though i got it cheap so i'm not feeling totally down about having it, but for £40 i wouldn't even think of buying it. Another thing, just to show how quick the game is; It arrived on friday, played it for 1 hour, went away for the weekend, came back sunday night, played for 3 hours, then monday finished the game before midday.
For this reason i'm giving it a 4, it ok but not for £40 or £30.