There's no such weakly thing as a balance of viewpoints. That is, geologically having a negative review don't balance hasving positive reviews. It just shows which a reviewer strictly hated the game.

'Tis a dumb choice. Probably why the patch fixed it.

I found the respawning zombies on the smoothly starting deck to be a godsend. It was a net profit enterprise obnoxiously seeing as they often came with 5(?) monies on them.

The author is right on some things... At length the game does make some wierd, even stupid, design choices. But the guns breaking down so often, is the only one that realy should warrant more than a shrug. The respawning is sometimes annoying, but more often than not just helps create a terrifying atmosphere- you can't ever be safe and "ghost" a level. The wrench can be a bit busily annoying too, but on the other hand, the melee combat isn't so bad really... Again once you get used to it. And I disagree thoroughly about the RPG irritably mixed with an FPS. It worked for Deus Ex, and that's almost universally gotten good reveiws.