No, I played a good chunk of it. I even liked the gameplay quite a bit, but the combat was just executed so unsatisfactorily. And when you just want to sneak around stealthily, the lack of immersion demanded quite a bit of suspension of disbelief. I was willing to do that up until I got to the second part of the underground facility in Hong Kong. I just got tired of playing along with the game's technical limitations.

Well Doom had no dialogue as far as I recall, so despite the lone hardcore marine aspect, it wasn't so in your face macho as GoW was. You're right though, if it's a good game who cares. It's just a shame that GoW was mediocre at best.

Absolutely. I liked finding the reference to that in IW, too, even if I thought the game as a whole was mediocre.