yea the slo-mo redeye thing is cheesey but useful. they've done really well setting an awesome atmosphere in this game. i played poker for 40minutes last night and it was actually really fun. the world isn't as big as it appeared to be but thats ok and there are some weird graphics bugs too.
Yeah the graphical oddities confused me at points. Aside from the bugs though its pretty fun. Map is pretty huge imo though. Takes forever to get places sometimes. Have you tried the liars dice yet? :O