I´ve got that game... it´s alright.
I´ve been playing fps´s since the original wolfenstein came out.... I still have it. It´s the original german version, and the entie game fits on a single 3.5" floppy
Since then, I´ve been through most of the fps´s... doom, quake, half-life, rtcw, eventually doom3!
The game is fair, I´d say. When I started off I got raped like crazy cause I didn´t know about the combat effectiveness meter. I was like WTF when I was shooting the hell outta somebody, and I later learned that your combat effectiveness had to be up, which kinda sucks, because you can´t go out for a run and have even decent aim, which is pretty unrealistic. I mean, the aim is exceedingly bad. maybe the guys should lose a little weight.
Then I finally figured out the basics, and I got my sniper´s badge, graduating from the original firing pit with 38 of 40 targets down. The two I missed were total bullshit, I was right on...
Anyway, I played that map with the giant snow cliffs, and managed to take out 8 of the 9 players on the other team singlehandedly with the sniper rifle the first time I went out with it.
I got bored of the slow gameplay after a couple days and went back to counter-strike. Haven´t played much cause of classes and exams, but when I do play, I´ll usually play dpb (the new paintball mod) for half-life. It´s pretty good.