Originally Posted by xSamhainx
Played a bit of The First Templar, it's not all that bad for a totally linear game that leads you around by the nose. Hopefully the training wheels will come off soon tho, enough of the big obvious pointing to everything already. Has a decent hack and slash combat (thankfully w/ blocking) and the graphics are pretty nice. The story is serviceable, it does it's job well enough to get you into the next section of the game.

Yeah I don't know what it is about the game - it's definitely more than the sum of its parts. Any one aspect of it is mediocre at best. I enjoyed the levels quite a bit though. Something about them was cliche and yet unique at the same time.