Here is what this game has going for it:

- the story, set up (underworld city) and the graphics are all very good and achieve the desired result. My guess is that this will make for a very good movie.
- the plasmids (powers), while not being an original idea (Star Wars?), have been mapped the best possible way to the controller and are a joy to use.

And - here is why the game fails terribly:

- the gameplay could have been so much better, but - in the end - it burns down to the 20 year old formula of finding the 'key'. Probably the most ridiculous task in any modern game makes its way in one of the levels, where you do not need to find 1 or 3 or 5 'keys', but 21 (yes, twenty-one!) items, in order to progress! While 14 of them are straight forward for anyone that played Quake or Doom or Duke Nukem (meaning gamers with lots of patience!), the last 7 require finding randomly teleporting enemies. This is as much fun as it sounds.

Purpose of any game is to entertain, relax, amaze, etc.

I decided I had enough and sold this game.
Here is what this game has going for it:

- the story, set up (underworld city) and the graphics are all very good and achieve the desired result. My guess is that this will make for a very good movie. - the plasmids (powers), while not being an original idea (Star Wars? ), have been mapped the best possible way to the controller and are a joy to use. And - here is why the game fails terribly:

- the gameplay could have been so much better, but - in the end - it burns down to the 20 year old formula of finding the 'key'. Probably the most ridiculous task in any modern game makes its way in one of the levels, where you do not need to find 1 or 3 or 5 'keys', but 21 (yes, twenty-one! ) items, in order to progress! While 14 of them are straight forward for anyone that played Quake or Doom or Duke Nukem (meaning gamers with lots of patience! ), the last 7 require finding randomly teleporting enemies. This is as much fun as it sounds. Purpose of any game is to entertain, relax, amaze, etc. I decided I had enough and sold this game.