Henry Rollins saves the world

This game has such potential it makes me want to cry. It is the distant future, you are Mace Griffin, a "Ranger;" a galactic cop. Framed, by the political fat cats, for a crime you didn't commit, you get sent to prison and when you come out, the universe is a different place. The Rangers are disbanded and the galaxy is rife with crime and chaos. So what do you do? It's simple: you vow revenge on the politico punks who threw you in the slammer and become… a bounty hunter. Sound like fun? Wait, there's more. This is also the first game to seamlessly combine the action of first-person shooters with the excitement of flight simulation, and to top it all off, you get Henry Rollins voicing Mace Griffin. I mean come on! What else does a game need, right?\nWhen I picked up this game, I prayed that I would be entertained by something akin to a hybrid of "Wing Commander" and "Half-Life." I was way off. The folks at Vivendi Universal, Black Label Games and Warthog had good intentions, but they put most of their efforts into the seamlessness of the game. Though, let me stress that seamless does not mean there aren't any load times. There are plenty of load times in the FPS sequences, just not in the parts where you transition from ground to space. Hence: seamless. \nThis wasn't the worst of it though. This game was BORING. The producers forgot to incorporate actual missions within the storyline. Your basic task involves: go there and press a button, come back, go somewhere else and kill people, come back, and so on and so forth. Also, you don't even have to kill anyone, you can just run through rooms and ignore all the aliens and potential gun battles! Where's the fun in that? Apart from this, you're plagued with slow frame rates and the damn game even froze on me -- TWICE! \nThe best thing I can say about this game is that it's mediocre. The controls are pretty decent, there's plenty of gore and a decent weapons selection, but none of this makes up for the fact that after fifteen minutes of game play I wanted to pop in "Medal of Honor" to remind myself of what a great game was like. Try it as a rental but that would be about it.