I didn't like the game for what it was when it came out back in 2007, but I'm having lots of fun with it now. Fast-pased FPS gameplay coupled with an ARPG-style loot system offer much joy even in single player, more so in a team. The environment lacks the diversity in this first installment of the series, however, all these wastelands and scrapyards are so neatly designed it makes them still look good. Not a huge variety of enemies either, but you do need different tactics for different types of them... well, either this or a really powerful gun capable of solving all your problems at once :) The plot ending in a huge cliffhanger (at least the main campaign, still have two DLCs to go excluding the arena-based one I'm not so excited about) is rather simple and bland, but quests description and occasional dialogues (or, rather, monologues posed by NPCs before our hero of choice who's mostly silent) are quite fun and generally well-written. The game rarely takes itself seriously but in a good way, you'll find tons of references at every step - Mad Max and Fallout ones as the most obvious, but you'll also come across some pointing to Diablo and other games, various books, films/TV series, historical events and characters, there's even a place for an occasional 4th wall breaking and mocking over the genre's cliches. That's probably the best part of this game for me that really keeps you captivated and looking forward to what else you may discover, although it will probably lose a good bit of its polish in the following playthroughs. Still, a very decent FPS/RPG game that plays good even after its sequels

I didn't like the game for what it was when it came out back in 2007, but I'm having lots of fun with it now. Fast-pased FPS gameplay coupled with an ARPG-style loot system offer much joy even in single player, more so in a team. The environment lacks the diversity in this first installment of the series, however, all these wastelands and scrapyards are so neatly designed it makes them still look good. Not a huge variety of enemies either, but you do need different tactics for different types of them... well, either this or a really powerful gun capable of solving all your problems at once :) The plot ending in a huge cliffhanger (at least the main campaign, still have two DLCs to go excluding the arena-based one I'm not so excited about) is rather simple and bland, but quests description and occasional dialogues (or, rather, monologues posed by NPCs before our hero of choice who's mostly silent) are quite fun and generally well-written. The game rarely takes itself seriously but in a good way, you'll find tons of references at every step - Mad Max and Fallout ones as the most obvious, but you'll also come across some pointing to Diablo and other games, various books, films/TV series, historical events and characters, there's even a place for an occasional 4th wall breaking and mocking over the genre's cliches. That's probably the best part of this game for me that really keeps you captivated and looking forward to what else you may discover, although it will probably lose a good bit of its polish in the following playthroughs. Still, a very decent FPS/RPG game that plays good even after its sequels