I have been waiting as long as any of you for this game since it was announced and was glad when the time came to buy it. Since I'm in Europe I had to wait a week later then the US of A. In this time some bad reviews and posts started appearing all very mixed, but through my dedicated long wait I went with my gut feelings. Xbox 360 is my platform.

So here we go,

Graphic's:

I love the style and find it very nice in all map's, but even with the new update there is still texture pop in/up everywhere, you can really just look behind you and the texture's start to load again and this needs to be fixed along with the blurry draw distance!
I do agree that in menu graphics of my charachter are not the same as in-game, why?
The map's are quite large in my opinion both in area and verticality and have various routes, so anyone complaining there are not enough need to get a grip, more will come in time I'm sure!
Also sometime's my in-game charachter is not the one I have as my set in menu one, he might have different hair or everything will be different?

Gameplay:

This has lived up to what I had hoped for as it's both exciting and refreshing. My only complaint is the lag/rubber-banding in large player game's with more then 8 human's need's to be looked in to by SD to see if they can improve host searches. I think there is more to the problem then bad host's as all connection's in my lagy game's show green?
Maybe they can have an option to keep games local to regions? Some option's to toggle both difficulty and behaviour in bot's would be nice. They really are too tough for me on solo objectives! Also my heavy body type takes little damage to go down, should he be tougher? There does'nt seem to be as much of a jump up in toughness from medium to heavy as from light to medium?

EDIT: All my lag free game's were co-op 4-8 human's vs Bot;s, no good 8 human's v 8 human's yet, come on SD help sort it!

Sound:

Love the sound, only improvement I would like is some more ambient noise. Water, seagull's, etc.

Lasting appeal:

This will depend on sorting out all the stupid glitches before people get pissed, also an easier way to tell how many human's or bot's are going to be in each game type, maybe a lobby?
Having TDM in this game does'nt bother me but I really hate time's on mission's!



So all in all I am really enjoying the game and would rate it between 8.5 /9 out of 10 if all the above are amended. Score's of 6 and lower out of ten are as stupid as 10 out of 10!
SD, sort out the glitches and you should have a loyal fan-base to work with for the future of FPS!