Personally, I'm not surprised by the reviews the game is getting a bit. The developer of this game is Counterplay Games. AFAIK, the only game these guys have ever developed before was an indie CCG called Duelyst. As a big CCG fan myself I played Duelyst quite a bit years ago, and I always thought it was a good, well made game. But it was also about the most bare-bones game you can imagine graphically speaking, using 8 bit models for each of its cards. I also always liked the head of the studio (Keith, I think his name is), and I continue to wish them well. But I'm not sure why in the world they would ever try to make such a drastic leap as going from making an indie CCG with bare bones graphics and turn based combat to a AAA next-gen game with real time combat. That just makes no sense whatsoever. They ought to have tried something out in the intermediary stage, fine-tuned their skills as developers, before taking this much of a leap.
