I have amazingly never played a game that I really hated with all my heart and soul. However, I found Soldier Elite to be both boring and incredibly frustrating at the same time. The plotline was a bunch of generic, derivative crap about some evil Russian cyborg scientist and his cat, who are researching some diabolical technology in a secret base north of the Arctic Circle, as though that hasn't been pulled before. Sneaking is ineffective, aiming is a *****, your supposed array of high-tech gadgets basically consist of devices that do a poor job of distracting enemies, and you die in about three hits from a machine gun. It's impossible to both move and shoot effectively, the ragdolls are about as realistic as those wooden drawing mannequins--well, I could go on and on, but it was the essence of mediocrity and made you want to scream with rage every time a Russian mook with an blatantly fake accent riddled you full of holes because your crosshair was five pixels off the exact center of his forehead.