It plays and looks like RE4 except with more gore and a lot less plot, I really don't think it's the survival horror 'return to form' as people were calling it before release, to be painfully honest... I didn't like it, the disjointed plot and settings may be for a 'reason' but it still detracts from the experience and ultimately I think that's where it fails. It kind of feels like someone took the psychological elements of Silent Hill with the visuals of Resident Evil 4 and the gore of the Saw franchise and a tiny dash of Assassin's Creed science.

Don't think any of that is a spoiler, the game has as much subtlety as any ham fisted horror movie.

It doesn't try to scare you so much as disturb you but it lays it on so thick that you just become desensitized to it, maybe that's a hidden brilliance to it or something but it just leaves the remainder feeling kind of bland.

If you really want to play it, take my advice, rent it, borrow it from a friend, or just wait for it to go on sale, if you have no interest in the game but want to know the story... well good luck, you don't even fully understand the story when you play the game from beginning to end, but don't worry... there's DLC to explain it all, isn't that great? /sarcasm

So yeah, uh, kind of good gore at the beginning, not so much after you're 4 hours into the damn thing.