A reasonably unique open world shooter that falls short due to lack of incident or broader depth in its systemic interplay. The gun play, for all its simplicity, remains tense and exciting for longer than most other open world efforts of the era but can't cover the rest of the shallowness generally with enough tarpaulin to make up for the lacks in writing, expansion of the world from the novel, and world design outside of the enemy encounter zones (which are excellent arenas for showcasing the firefights). The pacing of meting out new firearm options is exciting, and making the sniper rifle a late game enhancement that slows down and makes wider all firefighting and the spaces it takes place in is brilliant, but ultimately is let down by how little there is to interact with in concert with those shooting systems (something something MGSV).