No matter how you swing, he's the least fun kind of psychopath.
I was very cautious about this game when, in the opening scene, the main character just watches as a woman gets shot in the face. I had heard that you can kind of shape him into what kind of antihero you want him to be.
But when just running, simply running, through a crowd of civilians cuts them into pieces while they pray to God... that's just stupid. Just because he's got a blade for an arm doesn't mean he has to cut people in half when he runs by them. That's not "dark and mature," it's just pointless.
The story seemed particularly bad, with awful voice acting and pointless swearing. There's tasteful, and then there's excessive. This was excessive.
But games come down to gameplay... and this one fails. This game has a terrible control system. I'd have my character running at a wall, and he never seems to make up his mind on whether he feels like running up it or not. he'd fly into the air, and can't seem to control his velocity... at least not where directed. The combat was hard, but only because he did not control well. There were far too many times where I felt like I could have fought more effectively as a telletubby than this guy.
This hype is wrong on this game. Me, and my friends who have played it, couldn't play past the first five hours. It just got too painful.