Bumpmapped claustrophobia
They try to be innovative, but the things they add does not add anything of real value. Portals and special gravity altering pathways allowing you to walk up the walls and in the ceiling just makes it harder to find your way around.
My biggest criticism to the game is the limitation it puts on your freedom. You always bump into something, and can hardly breathe as you walk around in the super narrow passages. It feels like you have no freedom to move around at all, just walk back and forth along 3D tunnels.
I am very tired of these closed FPSes, after all I play a game to get some freedom to do things I cannot do in the real world. If i want to feel claustrophobic, I can just enter my closet and shut the door. Give me Far Cry, GTA or Mercenaries. Not this outdated piece of game design junk...
The Indian folklore setting was interesting, but does not really add much to the game either. Other games has mastered the new game elements it brings, like out of body spirit walking, better.
It all feels a bit flat and boring. During the in-game movie sqeuences, I was just half sleeping while waiting for the game to finally get on with it. Sometimes I just left the comuter for a snack or something just to avoid these boring moments, like an advertisement during your TV viewing. In the end, I jsut shut down the game and did something else, and I rarely stop playng before I completed most big titles.
Sorry, but the FPS genre is just too hard worn, and if they cannot come up with something better, then dont bother. It's not a bad game, but it is just another FPS game. There are too many out there already, and this is just another deja-vu. I have better games of this type in my collection already, I see no reason why I should play this and not my old games over again.