Could have been an amazing game, but the repetitive hand-to-hand combat and appalling gun combat ruin it.
The sound is pretty good but not memorable. The guns don't sound right though, there is something about them that makes them annoying. The voice acting while it is has good quality, it is really repetitive. The same phrases are uttered over and over again and there are very few different voices making people sound like clones. The grunting and yelling are good fitting well with he current situation. The bones getting broken was pathetic though. It does not sound like your breaking bones, it sounds like someone got a bunch of crackers, put them in a noisy plastic bag and crushed them, it doesn't sound nice, it is just really annoying and makes me want to turn the volume off to get rid of it. The music is quite unnoticeable when you are playing and doesn't have the feel that other games achieved. Though they did use music from the movies it needs to be more intense and have more variety, and when the action breaks they need to calm things down because it sounds sloppy otherwise.
The gameplay is where this game fell flat on its face. The driving was absolutely awful. I have seen arcadey driving in games before but this is ridiculous. It did not feel at all like your were driving a car and the way the cops were organized was not realistic at all. When you hit vehicles it just pisses you off, normally it would be amusing but because it is so awful the crashes just seem to be annoying. When you hit objects in your car it does not look nor feel like you did anything besides stop moving. Basically, the driving section was pure garbage. Next gunplay. When you are firing your gun it does not feel like you are firing a gun, it feels more like you are firing pellets or paint balls at your enemy, not doing any damage. You have to put an entire clip of ammunition into your enemies chest to drop him or a single pullet to the face. I guess they decided to give the enemies bullet proof suits that can withstand a blast from a shotgun as long as you are not poking them in the chest with it. The aiming is trash, it is a pain in the ass to kill someone because it is quite finicky. The adrenaline mode is painfully agitating because you will want to shoot the guy your crosshair is on but instead you shoot someone through a wall that was using a pistol. The cover mechanic is good and it makes you take cover behind what you intended it to. The hand-to-hand combat the first few times is fun, but after that it is simply repetitive button mashing. There are only 4 combos that you can perform, plus the 2 different kicks which is pathetic coming from a game that should be focusing on hand-to-hand combat. the attacks don't even make it feel like you are doing any damage at all. The finishers you get are good when you first see them but their are very few animations, and they are all repeated, but with a different object in the location where you smashing your opponent against. Same applies when there is no object with which you can smash your opponent into. When you perform a combo you cannot string together more and more combos so that your enemy is dominated, instead the enemy instantly attacks right after you finish and instead of performing another attack Bourne just stands there and stares at them like an idiot. It is very noticeable in boss fights such as when you smash the boss into a railing instead of beating the guy into a bloody mass of crushed human Bourne stares at them as if he expects that looking at them will cause them to suddenly die. The blocking is cool but it just doesn't work or feel right. Its fine if you block basic attacks but you need to make it so that the enemy can break through your defense and you can break through theirs making the combat more tactical. To sum it up, the gameplay sucks.
The story is there but it is not something you will remember. If you have not seen the movies than you may find yourself being rather confused, and even without having seen them or having read the book it feels disjointed and not present. Not much to say about the story other than it is there but it is crappy.
To sum it up. It could have been great, but wasn't. The gameplay was bland and repetitive without effort put into it. The sound was lousy and annoying at times, and not noticeable at other times. The story was boring. If you are a fan of the Bourne series give it a rent for a little bit of fun at first, but even then I would never recommend it to anyone.