Well for me i am usually subscribed to game informer and about i guess a year or 2 ago game informer ran a cover story over it detailing it and at the time i really had no idea about what they where talking about with the timed talking bits and stuff, but not until recently did i really get interested. I happened to be in a gamestop not too far from where i live and they where running a ad about the Assault Pack i think it was called, and i got to looking and asking some people in the store about if they preordered it and i ran into one guy who had already payed for his in full, and i decided to as well once i looked a bit at the things they where running on it in the gamestop tv they have set up. Also, being a ps3 owner, and that being my only console of current gen, it reminded me somewhat of splinter cell mixed with a mass effect sort of dialog system, and since kotor and kotor 2 where some of my favorite games (The bioware to obsidian connection) and being the fact that i could not play splinter cell conviction nor the mass effects i decided to preorder it. However when i got home i started reading some of the bad reviews that sites had given it already before it was even released and i started to be kind of wary of it, but i still got it and when i got home, put it in the ps3, half expecting a horrible game as they said it would be, i was amused to find one of my favorite games period. Ive honestly not played hardly anything else over the last weeks since its release. An awesome game