Storyline was well done for the most part. The landscape and environments were beautiful. What I had a hard time getting over [to the point of ditching the game at serveral times] was one hard freeze after another requiring a reboot. There was no rhyme or reason for this and I tried every so called "solution" from installing DX10 to changing this setting and that setting, but to no avail. It eventually settled down but what a way to ruin a game. I have a non-overclocked system with robust components and latest video drivers, so there is no excuse for all the abrupt disruptions I encountered. Someone dropped the ball on maintenance and upkeep with this game. The other less annoying factor was the fact that despite changing my keybindings for forward, back, etc, I had to keep resetting to the defaults to be able to move on from some redundant and superfluous scenes - like all the frigging cigarette breaks! For a story about a group of people trying to keep their health in a world threatened by radiation and sparse resources, leaving them reliant on having an exceptional amount of stanima, you would think smoking would be one of the first things to be discarded in the ashes of the past. But not this crew, even the heroine of the story who ends up displaying symptoms of TB continues to smoke while spitting up blood. I understand that smoking is still accepted in certain cultures but in game play it can be a real annoyance when you are offered a smoke break every so often and are not given the ability to bind a key to "No thanks, I don't smoke." The Two Colonels turned out the to be more of an interactive short movie than an actual game. The first part is filled with some rather mundane tunnel cleaning that was rather monotonous . Sam's Story was just more of the same from Exodus.
