an obvious attempt to rival Halo, except it completely didn't understand what made halo so good. the story makes absolutely no sense if you don't have the manual, the character's except Rico are boring husks of cardboard and have no unique traits at all. the levels are so boring to get through especially with the nonexistent gunplay. here's what happens, you start out with a good gun, but eventually run out of ammo so you have to pick up a worse gun from the Heilgast just to get ammo, and then carry that gun through the rest of the level. the balancing here is awful i don't understand how people had fun with this game. only check it out for curiosity sake.