The Bad: It's short, after 4 hours or so my save was ~70% clear. Movement is restricted a little to much by radiation instead of inaccessibility, when I can swing around a building but radiation stops me from going on the roof it's silly.

The OK: I need more Guns! - It gives you a standard assortment (Shotgun, MG, Rifle, grenade and rocket launchers) but something unique to BC would have been nice. Ammo is a little too rare for the special weapons so you can't have much overkill fun.

The Good: The soundtrack- People who never played NES games do not know what they are missing and can't comprehend how much you can do with 8bit sound, those people need to go listen to the original BC, Castlevania, Bubble Bobble, and the thousand other NES soundtracks that make most current game music sound like it's composed by idiot DJ's that can't write or read music.
That being said, I still like the original tracks better but I'll take an tasteful homage to them over a DMC-like soundtrack where everytime you fight the exact same song starts over and you hear the first 30 seconds a thousand times.

Swinging Mechanics are exactly as they should be I don't see what people are crying about. You aim and grab whatever your aiming at flawlessly, if you have inertia you swing, if you don't you stay still.
Sorry if it doesn't aim at what your not aiming at or magically save your life (a feature that helped ruin the Prince of Persia remake, No risk=No satisfaction of reward when did people forget this?)

Combat- Though not remotely hard, its easier to die than in many recent games that allow you to avoid all hits by constantly rolling. Bullets act like bullets in this game also, the farther away the more it veers so no accurate 100meter pistol/mg shots.

If your looking for an Fps, get an FPS. If your looking for a good but short, third person shooter with a Romper Stomper of a bionic arm get this. Would I buy it? No, but for me only massively replayed game on ps3 is Warhawk.

This is definitely a must queue game. I really think that you will either love it or hate it. I for one, loved it (I like this game more than infamous). Besides isn't that why you have gamefly, to save yourself from the 'I bought a bad game' syndrome?

I've seen a lot of complaints about running out of ammo, and yes, ammo is in short supply in this game. Keep in mind though, this isn't a FPS, if you want to shoot stuff up, get COD or something similar. Make sure you rely on your BIONIC arm, not your finite weapons. (TIP: Collect all ammo on that level, hack relay (which causes the game to autosave), die on purpose then collect all the ammo again and continue playing).

I've seen a lot of complaints about not being able to swing like spiderman. Again, this isn't spiderman (he uses two hands to swing). I've never seen spiderman run around with a machine gun.

There isn't a single enemy in this game that you cannot dispatch with using solely your bionic arm. After a while of swinging and getting used to the gameplay mechanics (throw is your friend) you'll be able to run circles around your enemies and even 'COMMANDO' mode is trivial at best.

I've given this game an eight for a few reasons, one is, the loading time, another because it's much too short. I was able to clear commando difficulty in two sit downs, and was able to achieve my platinum trophy on a third normal difficulty run.

Don't let the bad reviews scare you away, give this one a try if you're on the fence.