Mix some Tomb Raider with Mirror's Edge and splash in a bit of memory remixing and get ready for future Paris.
To start off, this game is beautifully set in future Paris. The environments are very well done, colorful, and realistic. This draws one in initially but as you play what you find is the beautiful world that has been created is a bit less lively than one would hope as well as not open for exploration as so many other games out there today. This isn't GTA or Assassin's Creed where people are clamouring about on every corner. To the contrary, the world almost feels barren by comparison. The fact that this is one of the most linear games to date surely reduces the feeling that this world is truly alive and pulsating.
One of the nice components of this game is, quite simply, there are no guns. No pistols. No machine guns. No rifles. No RPGs. Pure and simple, this is a close combat game and the variety of additional skills you acquire through the game are fun, original, and provide depth to the fighting. While things aren't as fluid as the recent Batman offerings, the fighting is good enough to stand on its own even though the camera can get a bit wonky at times.
There is enough variety in this game to keep you interested until the storyline unfolds. It's not a particularly long game and I did find myself eager to press forward. Things such as memory remixing and the various story developments were good enough that they kept you wanting to move forward and rarely ever feel like you were doing things simply because the developers wanted to make the game longer.
It is evident that the developers did put some solid time into this game and I'm glad I stuck to my instinct and picked it up. If you're interested in some intriguing sci-fi and/or dystopian style narrative Remember Me is sure to fit in your gaming library some where.