This game is.. rentable. Or bargain-bin fodder. (long review, grab a coffee)
G: Plot was amazing, I loved it. Good enough for the tv show. The ending was kind-of strange, but it was better than what I thought was going to happen.
B: Can't bypass cutscenes/character speech. Very annoying to watch the same scene over, and over, and over... everytime you die. And you will die alot.
G: The sprites look very realistic to their actor-counterparts. I enjoyed the fact that several actors lent their voices to the game.
B: Most of the fake actors sound funky. Most of the real actors make one appearance and disappear for the rest of the game, which is disappointing.
G: I felt that Ben and Juliet were pulled off the best. Kate also seemed very likable, and Sayid was almost realistic. Locke was hit & miss.
B: Most of the sprites talk like cartoons of the characters. Most characters were not very realistc. Gentle Jack was a bulldog, Sun was a sand hermit, and Jin was just a coward stammering in English.
B: If there are 47 survivors, and nobody is allowed into the jungle, why are there only 2 people on the beach? Why does that sunny Hawaii beach look so dreary and colorless? Heck, when the plane crashes, WhereTH are all the wounded?
G: Man, I love the Swan station. It looked awesome. And that one level where you have to reset the switch once was brilliant. (I was VERY happy that didn't happen every few minutes. It would have been annoying and unrealistic.)
G: Those fuse games are fun.
B: Not enough reasons to use your gun. I bought 60 bullets and needed to use only 4?
B: Smoke monster walking level is VERY difficult.
B: Initially, I spent about 20 minutes resetting the game to reset the graphics levels. A built-in mode would have been more user-friendly.
G: While I didn't enjoy dying and waiting a minute for the level to reset, I did enjoy the number of ways you can die.
B: The quality of gameplay is horrible; the controls are bizarre, sometimes you have to hit the button 3 or 4 times before response. Some minigames are frustrating and will leave you clicking the mouse furiously to 'capture the right image'. The instructions are never clear, and sometimes blip past quickly while levels are loading. Your character is laggy and hard to control, even on the lowest settings. Generally, everything takes too long to load, and you die too easily.
Final Word: I can't imagine playing this game more than once. Okay, maybe twice if you're desperate, but it's not worth $50. There's too many problems and this game really needed some beta-testers. I'd rent it, don't buy it!