After reading about this and seeing the first few screens I was really eager to play it. But I got so fed up with how much time I spent just moving the character around. What is the point of frames where you do nothing but walk through them?! The settings and textures are really beautiful, but after traversing them hundreds of times because the actions you're supposed to take to solve the puzzles aren't exactly logical, even the prettiness of the game wasn't enough to make me like it. The characters are all REALLY annoying, including Kate Walker. What is the point of all the annoying cell phone calls we have to sit through? There could've been a less insipid way of getting across that her life at home wasn't going so well. I also thought a lot of the characters in the game were based on someone offensive stereotypes. Like the "gypsy" characters who speak gibberish and are money-grubbers.
I was surprised when the game ended. In the last level I thought it was finally getting a little less insipid and a little more like a good adventure game, where the actions you should take become clear with a bit of thinking. I thought it was finally getting on a roll. Now I will have to buy and suffer through part 2 if I want to get some closure. This could've been so awesome. :-(