One of the most underrated action/adventure games of the last 10 years!
She plays a police officer/detective who gets caught up in a major conspiracy, she has to hand fight, shoot, drive and generally be well in touch with her body for the fighting and feelings for the detective work! The graphics are gorgeous and really reminded me of Gothem City in the early Batman movies, dark, mysterious and giving you the feeling a lot of dark deeds are taking place! The world is a dark place, with puddles and leaves blowing around, a real feeling of December without the snow but with the wind and the chill! It is one game that also really got 'height' correct in my book. When I was high up on a roof edge looking down, with the wind howling and the small figures below it really made me think 'vertigo'!!
The voice acting from all the actors is brilliant and although there is not long drawn out conversations all the characters are believable and personalities really come out in the game. This, along with the dark, damp city really creates and immersive overpressing feeling of dread. Not like in a horror game, but nevertheless and overpressing feeling of doom approaching with the new millennium! I have tried to stay away from the story, as it is quite original in today gaming, in fact, get this game and be surprised on so many levels, because there was not and has not been a game like it for a decade or more!
I will close by saying this game has lot's of replay value, as I have been playing it regularly for the last 7 years, it keeps dragging me back and given me a lot of fun all over again!
In closing I will say one last thing: This game has one the the best intro movies of any game ever! It is full of action, suspense, gives a great viewing of the outlook/personality of the main characters, and is a hugely well directed, good looking little action movie, with police cars crashing into suspects vans, back wheels skidding into store windows, smashing them and throwing the displays around, it is breath-taking and amazingly only about 45 seconds long but you'd swear it was 5 minutes!
If you find this game for under $5 I would say get it for the intro alone, but even at $20, this game will give you a lot of fun entertainment, some great characters and a heck of a immersive story! Highly recommened and two big thumbs up!