I've been rather dissopointed with the lack of post XMAS quality games. Thief 2 and Swat 3 have been worthy purchases and I was so glad the see the best FPS game of the year so far............SOF. The best FPS since Unreal  Tournment some months ago this game is shades of Kingpin and Goldeneye.  Unlike Kingpin though if you took away the gore this will still be a  brilliant game. Its not the gore that makes it (altough its pervsersly  enjoyable). The story line is good, took me about 12 hours gaming time to  complete and the levels are VERY varied. From snow to desert to New York  city it doesn't get boring. There are cut scenes rather than the free  flowing storylines of Half LIfe and System Shock 2 but great weapons and  great graphics/gameplay make this a worthy purchace. Excellant training to  get you going, brilliant sniper rifle, abilty to lean round corners,  ability to shoot and cut limbs of dead opponants. Not for the fiant hearted  but brilliand none the less. Let me go shoot someone in the goolies then  blow his head off one more time!  - NO i am not a masacist!