wait... what faceplate? I bought mine at Best buy and didn't get a faceplate
anyway I plan on just trading it in once I'm done.
any idea what's harder on hard difficulty? is it just the health/ammo availability and gun battles or are the puzzles different?
from what I've played so far I'd give the game a 7/10, don't get me wrong I love the game but really I don't think you'd like it unless you were a fan of the originals. Graphics are hit or miss, general playing looks good but some of the closeups during the pre-animated cut-scenes will make you cringe.
Game play is both good and bad, on one hand it's just like the original, on the other hand... it's just like the original. you'd think they would have been able to improve the crappy camera that screws up the direction you're trying to push,difficulty positioning your character when lining up for a jump, and automatic gun aiming that almost always chooses the wrong target.
they did a good job squeezing replay value out of 7 levels with the bronze, silver, gold artifacts, achievements for various difficulties, and time trial mode, but even still the game looks like it would take less time to 100% then it took me to do THAW.
The story is OK, reminds me a lot of the TR movie story lines, the voice acting is pretty good too but the script is cheesy at times.
really it does the series justice and really is a next gen version of the classics, but it's not revolutionary.