Well, I have been playing around with Front Mission Evolved, which is pretty fun so far. The game has two different game play types, when you pilot the wanzers (Giant Robots), and when you are on foot. The wanzer piloting part so far is a lot of fun, controlling can be a bit wonky but overall works pretty well. The on foot part isn't to great, its a mediocre third person cover based shooter. Enemies can be hard to spot, you can proceed to the next room till you kill every one of the enemies, and fairly limited weapons so far. You can run out of ammo pretty easily, which is a nice change from most FPSes which you have nearly unlimited amounts. And while you have regenerating health, the game actually has a normal health bar to let you know how much you have, rather then changing the screen color like many FPS games do.
The voice work is decent, the textures are pretty darn poor in the game though. Also, while most of the cut scenes are done real time, the few that aren't look really poor in comparison. Like for a character that only is shown on screen once so far, the aliasing is horrible on him, like the cut scene was done just so it blinded in perfectly to the console version. The game also has the Assassins Creed like problem where it will say "Push the Melee Button to Melee", and from what I tried, even when using a controller it still does the same type of prompts. The game isn't too hard to control though, so all I had to do was check what the keys were bound too.
The game has no built in antialiasing, so I have to over ride it with the Nvidia Control Panel, though oddly it dose have built in Anisotropic Filtering.
But, I find the game play its self pretty fun. Should be worth the $5 to $10 it is often during sales.
