A lot of the games that try 'substance' are actually far worse, they claim to be some great compelling story, yet don't deliver, If I want a story etc, I watch a film, and the gameplay of a lot of these games aren't too great.
Primal for example, on ps2, a decent story, yet the gameplay was jarring with it all and didn't do much.
R: FOM has a decent story for a computer game, but it's still not too great really, it's more of a shell of a narrative like all games, try to focus on the gameplay is a much better idea.