Summary
It does what it does okay, but there's much better available.
The Good
Pretty good graphics - certainly an improvement on previous games in the series, but not up there with Medal of Honor : Frontline and the like.
Nice Weapons - Having this sort of setting allows more artistic rights in creating interesting weapons and the ones on offer here are pretty good.
Controllable - Being a PC FPS fan I'm glad to see the two-stick analog approach here - one for movement, one for looking. I've seen much worse *cough* Dreamcast *cough* and this is at least playable, if not easy. It's also good to see an "Invert Vertical Axis" option, which is sometimes curiously missing from console shooters.
The Bad
Storyline - Blleechh! Not interesting in the slightest. Why not just skip it and save us doing likewise?
Deja Vu - We've seen it all before.
Flight Sections - Every couple of missions you get a flight section which involves whizzing about on a flying dinosaur equipped with machine guns and rocket launchers (!) and blowing things up. Although this sounds like a hoot it really didn't fit in with me. It's like a cross between the Star Wars trench-run and Panza Dragoon gone wrong. Evidently the game engine is not really equipped to cope with this sort of stuff either as each section of flight is very short with a save/load in between. Slow-down and low frame-rates are also a problem with the flight sections.
The Bottom Line
Not a bad game, but not a good one either. It does what it does okay, but for an FPS to be a must-have on a console requires some pretty good features, and this don't have 'em.
