I am a .hack nut case and I like the first four games. This one was a huge improvement over the last four and the sixth one looks to be a fairly big improvement over the third one.

You could probably beat this game in a rental as it isn't that hard. I am a bit of hack perfectionist and these games have always had that in mind to the extreme. I clocked sixty hours figuring everything on in G.U. alone. Probably took me 15 hours to beat it though. The core story is never that long usually in these games.

I say wait for more opinions as mine is Bias to the Max.