Plaidophile

I am not a hardcore gamer. I also don't play many console FPSes, because the controls tend to suck. FPS controls don't have to suck; look at Metroid Prime, for example. Metroid Prime has great controls on a controller which essentially only has six buttons and one analog stick, as far as the game is concerned. It also ramps up in difficulty as you progress and familiarize yourself with those controls.

Even if you insist on having controls which are basically a direct port of WASD and a mouse to two analog sticks, please don't make the tutorial impossibly difficult. Good games ramp you up in difficulty, especially when the controls are a bit tricky. Tutorial segments in particular should be fairly easy to get through, since the whole point to them is to learn the controls. Additionally, tutorial segments more than any other should be free of sequence bugs (like being able to fall off an elevator which you can't recall), and if you're going to make deaths restart at the most recent checkpoint, it sure would be nice if there were checkpoints other than the very beginning of the tutorial.

While you're at it, if you're going to put such a focus on dialog and close shots on characters' faces while they're talking, you should try to make their mouths move at least remotely convincingly. It would also be nice if the characters had motions other than "talk while gesticulating wildly" and "die." (For bonus points, learn to write dialog which is intense without relying on every other word being a profanity. Yes, I realize they're mobsters, but I'm not exactly Miss Manners but pretty much every line in the intro made me blush. Consider the concept of dynamic range.)

I was really looking forward to your game but now I'm thinking I wasted $60.

Love,
fluffy