I bought this in the week after deciding I should try a few more of the exclusives, plus I lack an FPS game at the moment so thought I'd pick it up and give it a try, I'm extremely disappointed...
I haven't played much of the multiplayer so it would be unfair of me to pass judgement upon it just yet, however I did have an hour or so on it yesterday evening and I was slightly annoyed that there doesn't seem to be any way of stopping people voting for the same map repeatedly.
Now, I'm not sure if the single player is meant to be the core part of the game, or if the multiplayer is the main part and the single player is just tacked on, but my God it's absolutely horrific. There's virtually no story and what there is is incredibly simplistic, the game is too stop/start, I keep getting a cutscene every 3 or 4 minutes of play which is HUGELY annoying and only serves to break up the pace of what has been a ridiculously short game anyway.
I'm playing on the hardest setting available to first time players which is massively infuriating, I haven't had rage this bad since I completed World at War on Veteran, it really is horrible. Your gormless team mates run around like a bunch of headless chickens and are about as combat effective as one too, the crouch is terrible and feels like you're actually just bending your knees slightly and the cover system is completely hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't actually lock you into cover but no matter because your head still sticks out of whatever you're meant to be hiding behind anyway.
The Helghast seem to absorb bullets as if I'm firing Smarties at them, whereas they can kill me in a handful of shots which seems ridiculously unbalanced and unfair. The jetpack is terrible and feels more like a high jump than a jetpack, plus your enemies just seem to destroy you every single time you use it which made it pretty much pointless for me, I just used it for the unlimited machine gun ammo.
My team mates rarely bother to heal me either, I had one instance earlier on where my team mate was just sat on top of me, teabagging pretty much, then he got killed and I had to restart from a checkpoint way back in the level. This has happened quite a few times throughout the game, it would be nice if my team bothered to heal but I've come to depend on the fact that 99% of the time they won't bother or they'll die trying, so I just try and play the game as carefully as possible, which is easier said than done when the cover system and the crouching are so dire.
I haven't actually completed the game yet, I'm just at the part where the start of the game links up, the rescue attempt basically, it feels like I'm near the end and thank God when I actually do complete this as it means I can give the multiplayer a proper go. I really hope it's a big improvement because for me the single player has been a generic piece of garbage.