I loved this game. It was pretty advanced, technically, for A 360/PS3 game.
Large, open environments that you could explore pretty throughly (at least from a geometry perspective) and a swing mechanic that actually took some skill to get good at... made the game pretty fun to play.
I also remember the final boss battle/encounter blowing me away, visually and conceptually.
Definitely a sleeper hit of the generation, despite all the hate.
Yeah, it’s no masterpiece, but anyone who thinks a medium needs only masterpieces is a wiener.