kthor wrote:

Gamespot gives it an 8.7 while simultaneously saying "You'll also spend about half your time with the game just watching (or listening to) the story unfold."

Gamespot wrote:

you'll have to put up with a lot of wordy, sometimes tedious exposition in the first couple of hours, and these hours are almost literally devoid of gameplay. Another possible impediment is the game's highly self-aware and self-deprecating sense of humor, which should appeal to the series' hardcore fans but nevertheless takes you out of the moment, oftentimes on purpose.