The concept and packaging are extremely well thought-out and put together. It's downright disturbing in places, just reading through the manual. The violence is graphic, alright, and watching someone get stabbed in the eyes with a shard of glass is definitely unsettling. The longer you wait to kill someone, the more violent their eventual death. (Of course, the longer you wait, the more likely it is they'll see you, so it's a trade off.) Not sure if the gameplay will become more absorbing or not. In the first stages, it's pretty basic....pick up weapon...sneak...kill. Lather, rinse, repeat. But all I've seen so far are fairly tutorial levels, so who knows how it'll progress.