Barely recommended. This was really on the verge on whether I should put thumbs up or down for this one.
SiN is an FPS game with usually fun combat, wacky characters and severe deliberate oversexualisation that becomes a satire of its own. Normally, I push hard against heavily sexualised games, but this one mostly makes jokes out of it, so I guess I'm not complaining. Even without over-the-top sexualisation other aspects are over-the-top as well. Humour and dialogues are so cheesy, corny and dated. It's so lame that it works, quite amusing. Reminds me of those 80s and 90s cheesy action films like Steel (1997), or Tango & Cash (1989), Blade (1998) too haha. The music here is very good though, similar music could be heard in already mentioned Blade and The Matrix (1999).
As for the gameplay, there is quite a lot of variety in levels. both quality and pace. Most of the stealth levels are ranging from pretty bad to very bad. There are some okay water levels, they're not good, but toleratable. Some of the best levels are the very first levels of the game, although there are still many good levels later on. Unfortunately, most of the levels in the last third of the game are atrocious. Full of snipers who can easily kill you even on easy difficulty, most enemies are insane bullet sponges which makes combat a lot less fun, the environments are poorly lit, but the level design in many of those late game levels is garbage. The jungle levels, the levels where you play as someone else so to say, and the lab levels are really bad. At least, the final few levels were pretty good.
Now as for expansion, it is a lot better than the main game. While, there were some levels I liked less than others, overall there wasn't a single awful level, and most were good. It's a lot more action-oriented than the main game. Final boss battle was terrible though...
Another aspect which quite annoyed me in this game is how illogical and cryptic it is sometimes. The dumbest one is that in one building in which the game preferred you to get in stealthily and unnoticed, you need to activate the alarm manually in order for one door to open from which the alarmed guards come in. And in that room there is a keycard which you must get. So, basically in order to proceed you have to fail the approach what you thought the game preferred you to perform... Luckily, in both, the main game and the expansion combined there were only about 3-5 moments which I had no idea how was I supposed to figure out.
Overall, SiN is a heavily flawed FPS game. The wide variety of weapons and dismemberment makes combat fun, but numerous bad levels bring this game down a lot, to the point that I can only barely recommend it.
7/10
