Well I got to play a few hours of my friends version huzzah! :)
My personal take. I still stand by my personal FPS stance. I don't like generic shooters. Saying that I do have some things to say about The Conduit.
Graphical effects are solid. There claim that they can boast modern graphical techniques are true. The Q3 engine is displaying an engine on par with PS360. Though keep in mind that it's not running models, textures or resolution to match. Just graphical effects. From a technical perspective the game looks great. From a art direction it still looks good even to current standards.
Gameplay is pretty darn solid and straight forward. I had a hard time believe poor control reviews and I know have a harder time believing them. Even the default control work really well. I started at a higher difficulty and honestly sometimes it get's damnd hard. I've been ambushed way too much assuming bad AI. However it is true. 1 or 2 enemies are that bad, but once you stack 3 or more things get interesting.
The FPS. I have to mention this. I don't like most FPS because they make me nasues. I don't know why some do, but they do. L4D I can play for hours. There is something in the controls that I haven't tweaked. I would prefer it to have a 3rd person view option. I haven't played it online yet. When I play it again I will try it out. For now that's it. I will not be playing this for the long term. I just don't like it that much, but maybe the MP will change this to a buy for me.
My result this is a SP 5/5 game. The Conduit does what it's suppose to perfectly. It's not meant to redesign or bring anything new to the table. If you like the old fashioned FPS with solid graphical engine and game play this game nails it down. I'm not going to reduce points on story for an action game play. If games like Doom are rated for it's game play I don't see any reason why we should penalize games action game play now.
5/5 for what it does well.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.