Totally Annoying

User Rating: 5.8 | XIII XBOX
I've just given up after about 3 hours into the game, I just can't play this totally annoying game any further. I really tried to like it, the graphics and sounds are really well done, but the gameplay itself is very frustrating. It's like they took every annoying thing from every other game and crammed it into this thing. I'm talking about levels where you can't use your guns, only really bad melee fighting, to those stealth levels where you cannot let the guards raise the alarm or it's game over. UGH!!! Plus it uses a horrible, seemingly randomly placed check-point system, meaning that when you die, you are back to some checkpoint that you passed 20 minutes ago, and you have to do it all over again - now in some games that is fun, but not this one! Plus they seemed to have tried to copy every gadget from every other game, but they never made using them any fun. The cartoony effect started off kind of neat, but got old real fast. In summary, I think they tried to do too many things, but never got the basic game down first. Unless you can pick this up for under $9 like I did, I'd pass on this one. Not fun. Plus it seemed to be pretty hard on the normal setting.