[Godmoney]

I bought this game in January, and beat it in about two weeks on it's hardest difficulty. I think that the story was good for a videogame, but I don't understand where all of the gaming magazines and review crews come from when they all say that this is one of the best games ever made.

I do agree that the levels were very detailed, and it was very appropriate for it's time setting... BUT... the game didn't astound me. It was pretty much a normal shooter experience for me. Only thing was, it added some different elements of other game genres. It wasn't that big of a deal for me, though. The endings were kind of lame in my opinion. I was kind of expecting something different other than...

*SPOILER ALERT*
That crap the splicers coming out of the ocean. The good ending was lame in my opinion as well. A good, and a bad ending. I've seen it so many times in video games before. The whole thing about the choices determining your fate. It's a bit played out. Either way I went about it, wether harvesting all of them, or saving them, it didn't feel like it was much of a difference to me in the end.

I think the game would have been better if there wasn't the whole respawn thing going on. Any body with persistance can go and kill a Big Daddy after throwing enough **** at him each time before you die.

I would have liked an option to make the HUD and crosshairs be invisible. I think that would have really pulled me into the game, the way I was interested when I first saw all of the trailers. By having that option, it allows for a better and deeper level of immersion. That's something that I want in all my videogames. A deep feeling of immersion. You take out a HUD and your crosshairs, then all you focus on is the enviorment. I didn't do that enough.

All in all, it was above most other shooters I've played. The story was really good for a videogame, but it's no where near a Metal Gear story in my opinion.