I was planning on skipping this for a while and seeing how the whole "always online" thing played out. But temptation coupled with pester power from my son made me cave in.
Game is pretty good I think but the way single player is handled is just plain ridiculous. First "always online" game I've bought for SP and probably the last. This approach is just draconian and too customer unfriendly to be supported. If it was like Steam that likes you to be online but can handle you being offline too and happily sync the next time you go online - and doesn't collapse if you go offline during game-play (of SP titles) then I'd have no issues.
Sadly the sales though are clearly going to signal that (as with titles like CoD) if the brand and demand is big enough the publisher can get away with more or less what they want.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
