As others have said, this is a difficult game to rate, especially as a journalist who was working in the games space at the time of its release. Mechanically, it's a quite competent first-person shooter that totally abandons the RPG/FPS structure of its predecessors, much to its detriment. Story-wise, it's a mostly well-written exploration of violence and racism that veers wildly into Both Sides Are Bad nonsense in the third act. Add in an increasingly incoherent series of plot twists, and you have one of the messiest triple-A games of all time. This game famously suffered serious difficulties during development that resulted in all of its RPG elements (and meaningful Elizabeth mechanics) getting cut, and I think there was potential here for a much better final product. As it is, it's a mostly forgettable low-rent shooter that's only notable as a go-to example of racism in a big-budget game.