It's the best thing since Peanut Brittle! God himself couldn't make a better game! (well, maybe)
The game starts in your shabby apartment in 1939. there's really nothing to do other than wander around the room, reading letter saying how you were kicked out of the British Secret Service and how you pretty much caused WWI and WWII. Then the Blitz starts. A German bomb explodes outside your window, and somehow you are flung back in time to the R.M.S. Titanic to attempt to complete your mission, and repair the damage you caused. Which brings us to the ship itself.
The graphics in this game are incredible. I know it's been said, but its almost like you HAVE indeed gone back in time. The ship is beautifully rendered. Every detail has been given attention. The paneling on the walls, the individual threads on the carpeting, everything is taken into consideration. The characters are a slight let down: characters that have no part in the story have no faces and walk with determination to some unknown location (i have multiple times seen the same person walking down a corridor in C deck over and over again. The main characters of the plot are slightly better. From a distance, they actually have facial expressions so you can distinguish them from the others. During VERY long conversations, the characters smile, laugh, and chatter incessantly, giving you advice and little side missions, slowly bringing you to your goal. Mildly interesting at first, they get more and more irritating as it goes on, and i usually just skip the conversations and wing it (of course, i DID die when the ship sank...)
Which brings us to the sinking itself. It occurs while you are standing on the top of the fourth smokestack (just for show) with a German spy (creative, eh?). You stun him with a very Bond-style gadget and sneak down the funnel, where you are clonked on the head by a wrench-wielding Russian.
You wake up a while later to find that the ship is sinking and you have about an hour to rewrite history. This is without a doubt the hardest part of the game because, at least to me, it seems like a lose-lose situation. you have to get a painting, a notebook, an antidote to save a poisoned friend, etc., but to get the antidote you must give the bad guy the painting, and to get the notebook, you have to let a very dangerous guy escape. In addition to being the hardest part, it is also the most exciting part, and the SFX help a lot.
Which finally brings us to the sound. The characters voices are interesting, but unemotional. There's really nothing special about them, so we won't waste time on them. The best sounds are the natural sounds. The wind whistling through the air, the creaking of the ship, the crashes and screams of a ship sinking. It brings to life the majesty and the tragedy that is Titanic.