This game is absolutely terrible. A tremendous leap backwards in terms of fighting, graphics, and difficulty. The storyline isn't particularly interesting (at least not at first but needless to say, I didn't play it for very long). The dialogue is boring and there's far too much of it, we ended up skipping a lot of it since you don't really need it to know what you're doing, as the vast majority of the actual game-play involves following one big long path with one or two optional side quests (which are basically more completely obvious paths to follow). There's nothing about it that requires any sort of skill whatsoever. The fighting does offer a little bit of variation through button combos but since the enemies are so easy to kill you may as well not even bother. You can gain new skills as you progress and build each of your characters in one of four ways but since there's no way to tell what the skills are until after you've spent points on them, they might as well have made it completely random. There are one or two actions you can use at specific times, like "searching the area for clues" after which some part of the scene (a bloodstain or footprint) begins to glow bright white. This is arguably the hardest part of the game as the first time this was required we spent a fair amount of time wandering around the area holding the button down while watching the character sniff the dirt over and over until we noticed the glowing "clue". Seeing as you play the entire game with two characters, I was initially under the impression that this was largely intended to be a co-op game for two players. However upon player two actually joining the game we are informed that only player 1 will receive any achievements or saves and player two is basically shit out of luck unless they want to do the entire thing again later. (Also I've seen a few games lately that are doing this 43 split-screen instead of wide split-screen and I just don't see the point. Why give us less when you could give us more? It feels like the visibility is limited and there's all this unused space!) The graphics are horrible which normally wouldn't really bother me at all but in this game for some reason it just seems so terribly half-assed. The characters have no facial expression whatsoever (a fact which had us falling out of our chairs with laughter at one part of the game when one of our characters found himself blankly staring directly at the camera for literally and entire dialogue segment). The animations aren't too great either although admittedly I have seen worse in recent history. I came to this game expecting an Assassin's Creed-esque co-op role-playing game and I have to say I am not at all impressed. It's a shame really since I think this sort of thing is exactly what the co-op playing world needs. Sorry, but this game is definitely not worth anyone's time.

I'll probably rent this on the weekend, looks interesting.

Also kudos to the subtle monty python reference.