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Critics really missed the mark when they let Nintendo slide with the "one island per console" junk. This is a terrible precedent to set and it is not good for anyone for this game to be so popular with such anti-consumer functionality.

I don't know where the positive critic reviews are coming from. On the PC the game has several issues, including sound level problems and video stuttering. The controls on a gamepad are very jerky and stiff, like Shadow of Mordor or the 3d Bionic Commando from a few years ago. I have been to the forums and I am not the only one experiencing these problems. People are also having issues on the consoles, which is bewildering.

Don't support this game. Just don't. Tell your friends not to. It is a $30 game at best. If they release free DLC with non-recycled content then maybe this game will be worth it, but it is very short and it is just "empty." It feels like they haven't tried. Almost every mission is a copy paste job. No meat. Enemies have poor AI and they respawn frequently, so "exploring" is kind of like hanging out in Hyrule field in a recent Zelda (ie: you are constantly harassed) Almost all NPC's have no dialogue other than a vocal quip as you approach them, then it's just a screen where you trade cash for goods. Or maybe you get free goods. From a robot. Or get mystery goods and build up a score for gambling with your money a lot. Who cares. Many more basic engine bugs than I have ever seen in ANY game (networking and group play). Peter Dinklage could be replaced by any other bored sounding male. They could have probably replaced him with 100 interns and at least had an interesting game. I have played many games in my life. I have paid too much for indie games, and I have payed very little for games that have given me 100's of hours of entertainment. Given the professional names behind this release, I can only assume that this is either a cash grab (note how no reviewers got pre-release code for reviews), or nobody would tell Bungie that their emperor had no clothes. Back with Halo 2 they scrapped everything and started over at a point during development. This is not the same Bungie. This game gets one point for teaching me to never pre-order a game again.