Advent Rising...

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...is making me angry.

Utterly unplayable. Might work with a gamepad, otherwise pretty much uncontrollable. Often baffling as to why your player just decided to do what he did when he wouldn't do it before. Want to fire your gun? One click to unholster it, another to fire (if it hasn't run out of ammo). This usually results in getting knocked down in a crucial moment.

Baffling design decisions. No maps, no on-screen objectives, weapons for which you have to exit the game to read up on to see if they're better or worse than what you have. Boss fights that give no indication of how well you're doing until suddenly it's a cutscene.

The story had some scope, but the main characters are so cheesy and the dialogue so cringeworthy I've started laughing.

And for some reason they thought this would be the 1st of a 'trilogy'. Someone was huffing glue. (But what's kind of depressing is the amount of work that's gone into the graphics - which are pretty attractive and well designed)

I got it over Steam. I stopped playing once it started crashing in certain parts of the game (which didn't take long)

I kinda liked the game, good story.. but i admit the controls took some getting used to.

And i was hoping for the 2 others, but sadly it did not sell well. :(
Which is too bad, because i have great respect for Orson Scot Card.