Too much spectator and not enough participant. There are long sections
where you're just watching the action or running to the next section
without doing anything else. BORING!

Whether playing as a Mantle soldier or as a rebel, the people around
you say the same four or five things THE ENTIRE GAME!  It never varies
and it's constant. And oh God, it's moronic! Imagine stuck in a room
with people for 6 hours (it's a lot shorter than they say) repeating
things like "Remember your promise to Marino", "My mom would be proud
if she could see me now" and "I have a bullet with your name on it". I
finally had to turn off the voice sound to save my sanity.

Driving vehicles is difficult. The camera angles change without
warning and at times you have no control over where you're going. It
takes a lot of movement of the left stick to turn the wheels, but just
a touch of the right stick to move the camera so you go in the
direction you want to. It's not natural. The same amount of movement
should be done to both sticks like in Halo to stay on the road. It's
very easy to over-compensate on the right stick and you end up
crashing into a wall. And in most of the sections you're dodging
mortars so one false move and you're toast. Any hestiation or running
into something and a mortar or trap gets you. I found it easier to
just run to the next goal.

And here's my favorite, the enemy and ally AI. Stupid with a capital S-
T-U-P-I-D. Imagine driving down the road alone and the next thing you
know you have a vehicle full of allies (or one in the case of the
motorcycle). They materialize out of nowhere.  This is when you go
over to the rebel side. If your ally gets killed he will miraculously
reappear a little further in the mission. The same guy, reincarnated.
Your allies will step right in front of your line of fire and then
complain when you shoot them. If one gets wounded, you wave your hand
over them like a faith healer and they jump back up. I felt like I was
Jimmy Swaggart. At least in Conflict:Denied Ops you'd heal your
partner with a hypo so it was more realistic.
Allies will fire into a wall if there's an enemy in the next room and
will do so until you go into the room and kill the enemy.
Enemies will run right by you or run right at you. All that was
missing was them shouting "Here I am, shoot me!". I had one enemy run
by me TWICE without shooting. The enemy AI didn't smarten up until you
run into the Mantle black ops guys near the end of the game, and even
then they would stand behind a barrier and leave themselves wide open
for a head or upper body shot. There was no suprise element fighting
the Mantle soldiers because anytime you got in the vicinity of a
soldier, you could hear them injecting themselves with Nectar. At
least the rebels would shoot first before talking while playing as a
Mantle soldier.
The rebel allies got in the way more than they were helpful so I just
killed them whenever they materialized and stole their weapons. I
never got in trouble for it either. The one positive thing I can say
about the ally AI is that they don't go running off without you. They
pretty much stick around, which isn't a good thing when you're in a
battle since they walk right in front of your line of fire.

Nectar, two things.  As a Mantle soldier, the nectar is useful but
doesn't last long. You run out in the middle of a battle and pausing
to replenish isn't worth it. I ignored it and continued shooting. It
was useful in the jungle missions, but that was it.
Second, you can create Nectar bombs as a rebel fighter, but there's
only a couple of places where it's useful. The purpose is to turn the
Mantle soldiers on each other, but you only run into small groups of
soldiers and by the time you think of using a bomb you've shot most of
them. You can't plan on using a bomb because the soldiers (like your
rebel allies) materialize out of nowhere. And forget shooting the
Mantle soldier's Nectar packs, there's no real opportunities. They
don't turn their backs to you and it's only blind luck if you do hit
one. And since it takes them so long to die when you do, you end up by
mercy killing them anyway. Burying bombs was a waste of time. Rarely
would the soldiers last long enough to fall into the trap. Since they
leave themselves wide open, it's easier just to shoot them down.

The graphics were passible, but nothing to indicate it took advantage
of the PS3's supposedly superior abilities. The jungle mission
graphics were good, but the rest below average.

The game is linear with very little open areas to explore. I don't see
it having any replay value.

I can only hope the on-line gameplay is superior to the campaign,
otherwise there's going to be a lot of used copies for sale on eBay
and at EB Games by the end of this week.