The most Innovative Game in the last five years (XBOX version)

I have rarely been so satisfied with a game after I've finished it. I can fondly remember throwing my enemy from my grip into an incinerator, upon which flame shot out and ignited another. There are many creative invironmental hazards similar to this, each with their own satisfying outcome. The abilities at your disposal are telekinesis, pyrokinesis (shoot flame from your hands and have it ignite the ground), mind drain (which can make you enemy's heads go *POP*, and recovers your psi energy), a sort of out body experience where you can spy through doors, mind control (self explanatory) and aura vision, a sortof radar vision. The way that these can be used are left up to the player, and it's rather satisfying to use them in a way not immediately obvious. If you see someone high up on a ledge with another trying to pick you off with a rifle, you have a few options. Maybe you can telekinetically chuck them off the building and have their bodies smash into a metal crate, and allow the absolutely outstanding rag doll ohysics gaive it an eerie sense of realism. Or mind possess one, have him kill his friend, then hop right off the building. Or just pick up a container behind him throw it at him from behind, causing him to be killed from the blow and just ave his lifeless body plummet to the ground. All, however, feel profoundly gratifying. The game would still get a fairly good score if it was just run-n-gun, as those mechanics work fairly well, too. But you'll only resotr to them in conjunction with your powers. And I really could not see the powers, most especially telekinesis, control any better. A definite highlight that makes it all the more worth it is an impressive, pulse pounding boss fight with one of your former, telekinetic using partner. You start out small, flinging pieces of scrap metal at eachother. But by the time you get out side, he begins chucking containers the size of trucks at you, and it becomes a harrowing experience. Buy this game, love it!