I still can't understand how people can consider this type of gameplay good, in 2011. The close combat system is similar to Riddick - except that the whole combat system is missing, only the takedown animations remain. The game is poorly optimized (console RAM limit), and constantly loads something from disk, even though I have 8GB of RAM. Comared to Arma 2 that simulates whole battlefield, these static, dead levels should run much smoother. BTW did I mention that the hacking minigame sucks, and you have to play it too often?

I've seen plenty of people praise the hacking mini game, I have to agree with them that it's probably the best one I've seen, but I also agree with you that it gets pretty old by the end. I have no problem with the close combat system other then the awkwardness of the energy system, certainly seems more cinematic then running up to someone and whacking them over the head with a katana until they drop. As for optimization, I had to lower a few settings due to my older/less impressive computer but once I did it was pretty smooth. Definietely gave me way fewer perfromance problems then witcher 2.

Well I can tell you that when I lowered the settings for Witcher 2 enough to work on my computer, it looked far worse then DEHR (which I didn't really think looked bad at all). As for close combat, I'm not sure what you were expecting. I've played lots of stealth based games with a similar take down system. It's a stealth based shooter not an unarmed combat simulator. It has a simple system that gets the job done. The timing is all about getting up to your enemy without being spotted.

I think most would agree about the ending not being great.

This only means that you need a better computer

Graphics are ugly in DEHR, there is no denying that. They don't need to be Crysis or Witcher2 level but they need to be better then this.

And Riddick is also a stealth based FSP most of the game but it still have a much better melee system.

Ending could have been better if they just told us what happened to other character you meet/help during the game. But again, they maybe want to keep that info for DLC/expansions/next game. DE1 also had this kind of ending where all choices were unloaded at the end no matter how you played up until that point.

Well I was really arguing for DEHR's optimization rather then it's graphics. I think it's optimization is fine, it ran perfectly well on my lame system so it should run perfectly well on an even better system. My point about Witcher 2 was just that you can't completely say that it's worse performance was purely due to it's superior graphics. Even if you lowered the graphics to the point where they were worse then DEHR it still performed poorly.

And Riddick is still a very different game then DEHR. Any game where your playing Vin Diesel had better have a good face punching system! Most stealth based shooters do not have unarmed combat systems like that.