There were aspects I really liked, but on the whole yes it was a little blander than I was expecting. It was very nuts and bolts. Things I did enjoy were the cutscene stuff, the neat traveler powers, the customization stuff, and a lot of the new animations for the enemies were very cool. All in all I have to wonder if having a pre-scripted run through like they did was the best idea. They also took a painfully long time to get to the interesting stuff, there was a lot of running around looking at things that were nice looking but not especially exciting.