I received Shattered Light as a birthday gift from my cousin. She had never heard of it, but it was $5 and so she thought that even if it sucked, it was only $5. After playing Shattered Light, I can safely say that I would've killed myself if I'd been the one to spend even one cent on this wreck of a game. The story is very cliche. Something goes wrong in a boring world, and you have to find ten gems to save everything. If I had enough brain cells left from even thinking about this, I'd use them to yawn right now. The gameplay itself is terrible. It's a rip-off of Diablo, but it's hard to call it a rip-off because where Diablo was fun and simple, this is tedious and overly complicated. The actual pre-built campaign is terrible and will not keep you playing if you have half a brain, and the campaign editor seems very nice at first but turns out to be lame, not letting you do half the stuff you want to do. The graphics are terrible. They look like a zoomed-out premature build of Diablo from 1989. The "fancy" menus and such are just cliche rip-offs of Dungeons & Dragons stuff. The sound is the one thing that I thankfully can't remember about this game, as I played it a year ago, but since I don't remember one thing about it (whereas I remember sound clearly from games like Starcraft that I played in 1999), I'm going to assume that it's just as terrible as the rest of the game. In terms of value, the game is also poor. I didn't even get close to getting a tenth of the way done with the single-player, since the game was just too terrible to play. I guess that means that I can't tell you how long it is, but really, you won't care, as you'll be too busy wanting to kill yourself for wasting even one cent on this atrocious game. The multiplayer is, as the GameSpot review pointed out, stable, but nobody plays it anymore at all, so I didn't get to play it. If thousands of people still play Diablo from way back in 1996 but not one person plays Shattered Light from 1999, I think that tells you something about this game's quality, or lack thereof. What depresses me most about this game is the fact that it still retails for $5 at used game stores, while Diablo, an infinitely better game, sells for $2. Honestly, my cousin paid $5 for this, but I paid $2.26 for Diablo. Don't buy this game.
