The game offers a wide variety of entertainment, however it does get suffer from the main downfall of this genre, it's repition. Countless lunging and button mashing cause this game to lose some points and does not much offer much in the form of replay value. However for completionists out there the hard mode is rather challenging and will add some extra hours to the gameplay, as there will be sections that will require repeated deaths to accomplish. The graphics are hugely impressive but the story is not very cohesive. My closing comment is that if you like endless violence for a designated couple of hours then i'd suggest picking it up, but if you are willing to wait I'd suggest waiting for the retail price to decrease at least.