I bought this day 1, and waited 'till we could get the family together.(the gamer part of the family) First, this is a nit pick and hardly a real issue so I'll make it brief. Why oh why doesn't the manual have any color on the inside pages? Box art looks good, a little splash on the disk, the
manual cover, but nothing inside. And to make it worse, the manual is like-10 pages or something with no screens, character/weapon art, nothing. Drop-kick the Olsen twins you penny pinching pricks!!!!
...Moving on, I only spent 3.5 hours playing this game so far, so my opinions may not be entirely objective, but I'll lay it out. DSE looks really good, I was satisfied with how the game was presented, and despite the limited range of monsters I had a jolly ol' time dismembering them. The "fix the circuit", and "rivet" mini games make things interesting, but hardly add any motivation... no frantic emotion to the game. I was hooked at first to the story/setting immediately because I love sci-fi and horror, I figured this would be sex, but I was surprised at how disinterested I was after the first hour or so. There's waaaaaay too much information to pay attention to when sprinkled throughout the game, I much prefer story segments between action chapters. The story became a huge distraction from monster killing, kinda made it difficult to become immersed in the atmosphere. (you could almost say there was no atmosphere-I'm exaggerating I know)Before long we were talking about other things between zombie killing, just a very disjointed experience all around.
It could very well be that having company over to share the experience killed my enjoyment...but I'm not sure. We had get togethers for RE:UC and had loads of fun, solid-hart pumping gameplay, solid graphics. And again later with HotD Overkill, sure it looks like all kinds of ass, but playing that game was genuinely addictive-pure fun, we couldn't stop playing!!! Not the case with DSE, but we're giving it another shot this week end
so who knows, maybe my tune will change.