I am halfway through the game and I am not that impressed. At first the AI blew me away but the story is so weak and uninvolving and the rest of thegame design is not what we have come to expect.

Who is my character meant to be and why do NPCs keep randomly sending him off by himself for no good reason? Why are there all these boring phone messages that tell me nothing? "Scary" things keep happening but since I have NEVER been hurt by one of these events I have learnt to just ignore them. All of the levels look the same and non of them actually represent any real place. The same furnature and computer systems are everywhere and offices randomly mix in with labs with no sensible reasoning. There are lots of doors but most of them are locked and the game is as linear as Doom3. Doom 1 wasn't linear so why are modern games?

I am bored of killing the same three or four enemies. Why when I at last got to fight a big robot thingy was there no body left for me to gloat over? What is the point of disapearing bodies? Why are there so many goodies everywhere? Several times I have found a health boost (which increases you max health and recharges it to full) in the same room as a med kit. I have just picked up the boost so I have full health and the medkit is just overkill. I already have 10 of them in my inventory. I also spend most of my time with full ammo for all three guns.

Combat has become boring. You can't run with a weapon and hit anything so you just edge round the (grey anonymous) corner, hit slo-mo, headshot the badguy (who looked just like the last 50), watch his stupidly acrobatic death then repeat. I will play to the end but I don't think this game has lived up to initial expectations.

Summary:
Good AI, daft story, dull level design, rubbish enemies, nothing original.
6/10