Just finished the demo. 5 gigs for 30 minutes of playtime, most of it with a death grip on your hand so you don't do anything crazy like think or act for yourself.
I remember when you could get 5 hours out of a 30 meg demo... But enough about that, let's talk about this.
First of all, I'm not actually going to make a big deal about some of the stupid things they do in the demo as far as the writing is concerned. Yes, some of it is stupid. And Dr. Wahlen apparently can't speak German worth a damn. But these are small issues, minor peeves, and not hugely associated with the gameplay itself.
But then there's magic wallhack shooting. And silly, silly, silly SILLY SILLY user interface, as everyone has been commenting on. Don't include a "change elevation" tool if you're just going to ignore it anyways. And don't include a grid-based movement selection if you haven't got a bloody clue how to do it.
I of course couldn't get a particularly good idea of the game from just that demo, seeing as it doesn't let you do anything... But I wasn't hysterically impressed as of yet. I do appreciate the effort, though, and I like that they're keeping to some of the original concepts. But I'll have to sit out and wait until some lovely heaps of data arrive for me to snuffle through.
Fun bits: In the demo, the final part of the final mission is a big factory room with two thin men loitering around. I'd moved a guy around the building to peek in the window, rather than betting everything on the route they want you to take through the front door. Soon as the guy looks through the glass, TM#1 hurls himself through another window, Neoleaps onto the building, runs over to where a third window is, and drops down again. TM#2 stays rooted to the spot and instead shakes his pistol menacingly at the chunk of wall my guy is hiding behind. He continues to shake the gun, without firing or doing anything else, while the assault trooper runs up to a crate next to him and introduces him to a balanced breakfast of lead cereal.
When wallhuggerman moves around to get a look at TM#1, the thin man stands up, does a pirouette, smashes his elbow into the window behind him, and then fires in the general direction of my guy. Why that window needed to die, I may never know.