Possibly the most realistic (both graphically,through it's control system,it's physics and it's character movment) yet!
An easy way to describe it would be to say it's a first person, graphically advanced, GTA with monsters coming out of your shoulders!
You could go through the game without even using the powers given to you and still feel overwhelming satisfied at the gameplay element of the game.
It's delicate and wonderful control system allows graceful use of all weapons - from it's masses of pistols to it's Jackhammer Shotguns.
You can travel anywhere, do anything, kill anything.
Take branching side missions where your guns and violent powers may not get you what you want - with multiple ways to complete these side missions experimentation it at your hands!
The reason I mention these things is to stress the fact that they are all so good and addictive.
Let me give you an example of one day of playing.
- I was walking through the Canal Street subway about to ring someone in which a woman approached me. She asked me if she could help me get her apartment back from her ex-boyfriend. As I was in a sporting mood I accepted her offer. Her apartment was in Chinatown so I took off imeadiately, reloading and preparing my weapons in the shadows of the city streets. I would be unaware of anything that would happen.
I arrived at her apartment.
A rough looking fellow replied to my knocks on the apartment door by opening it. I was either going to pop him a question or pop his neck. The choice was mine.
I decided to go with the first idea although my trigger finger was getting itchy.
I asked him for his keys to the apartment. He replied saying that he was not going to give me them. Upon this I pulled out my shotgun and pointed it at his face. He, in response to this, fell to his knees and screamed in horror "I don't have the keys!". The trigger of shotgun was being pulled ever slightly by my finger. The shotgun did not go off, it simply showed that it's trigger was being pulled. His screams further persuaded my decision.
I took the butt of my weapon and smashed it across his face, breaking something in the process. This thing was not ,however, a part of the shotgun. He consequently fell almost lifelessly to the floor of the dirty apartment. I picked up the keys from his blood stained pocket and left.
That was fun.
I could go on and on about the game but I'm simply going to leave this review with one simple thing.
I have played dozens of 1st person shooters.
This is the best.