Finished it last night on Normal difficulty.
Five-and-a-half hours on the official in-game clock for me, but that clearly doesn't include cutscenes or any downtime between the actual shooting part of the missions. It seems to start the clock as soon as enemies appear by my reckoning, so including all the story stuff and collecting ammo/upgrades/walking around areas, you're looking at seven or eight hours. Most importantly, it feels like the right length for the kind of game it is. This isn't a Resi 4, all slow-slow-quick-quick-slow, this is pretty relentless throughout. Any longer and people would be complaining about padding and/or repetition (the latter may well come up as a criticism anyway, but that's only if you're not mixing up your play and I imagine on Hard and God Hard modes you really will need to change strategies on a fairly regular basis).
Anyway, game's brilliant, and I'm going to support Sega and Platinum by buying it, and not just because I played it on PS3 and think it might feel that bit more satisfying to have Sam's boost on the lovely bumpers of the 360 controller.
Never mind the width, feel the quality. This is a superb shooter that may well have spoiled all other third-person shooters from now on, simply because they'll feel so sluggish by comparison.
(For the record, this is a review copy, I'm not a pirate.)
