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I just finished playing XIII and I think its great. The graphics are really interesting, the controls are easy to master and the storyline keeps one engaged (and yes, Adam West and David Duchovney are doing some of the voices in the game).

I love the "zoom-in" cartoon panelling feature of the game; where you take out a bad guy or an enemy targets you. I liked the weapons selection - especially the crossbow. What I detested, however, was the incredibly stupid save game feature. I guess the programmers at Ubisoft created this almost useless system so that this short game would seem to last longer. Why else would it limit you to saving only at game chapter points?

Despite this annoying problem, I am still giving this game a mostly positive review since I did enjoy playing it; and I really liked the "fireworks" scene at the end - truly awesome graphics..

I bought this game because of reviews I read on here. I was delighted to find it very entertaining. The latter levels near the end are a bit frustrating as you have to kill the bad guys and they are very hard to kill, while you aren't... But, it was still a lot of fun once I figured out how to play the game. The only real drawback I see in this game is the saves. You can quick save or save the game at any point. But, when you try to load the game, you always start at the beginning of the level and have to work your way back up to the spot you saved at. That can be a bit annoying... Still, I'd recommend this game to gamers. I LOVE FPS and this one was interesting and the cartoon art was excellent. The saves annoyed me because I tried to save after certain lengthy cut-scenes only to learn that the save was essentially worthless. I had to go through it all over again... I look forward to the follow-up to this game. I think most gamers would like this game... If it hadn't been for the flawe in the save game, I would've given this 5 stars...

I admit, I've only played the demo, but this game is awesome from what I've played. It feels and plays out like a mix of Goldeneye 007 and No Ones Lives Forever (sweet!).

Pros:
-comic book cel-shaded graphics and comic panels (very creative)
-using objects as weapons (you can take out guards by smashing chairs and bottles over them, AWESOME)
-soundtrack (its very jazzy and upbeat, and it often helps you out in the stealth missions, speeding up when you are seen by guards)
-very challenging (a guard with a machine gun can easily shoot half of your health away within several seconds)
-awesome diversity of thugs in the first mission, I always hate it in games when there are only two or three different enemy charater models, in the first mission there was only one character model repeated twice, and there was even a black thug! (mean though how he's like the first guy you kill....)

Cons:
-crappy gun sound effects
-very challenging
-hard to kill guards except w/ headshots and chairs
-no midlevel save
-pretty violent (lots of gore and the comic book pop-ups of enemy deaths, but since most comic books are very violent....)

All in all, I'd say that if you like FPS games, definately get this, but it is quite violent , so if you don't like violent games , don't get it.