(mini-review).

This sometimes-pretty throwback shooter feels like a K-Mart or Xiaomi knockoff of a regular AAA shooter. Some good, punchy weapons, and decent traversal mechanics are completely undone by a nonsensical story, lifeless, linear maps, prefab-looking assets and atrocious AI (As an aside, why try to employ stealth with such dumb AI?). The most damning elements of the game stem from truly unfair fights where enemies just spawn a foot behind you (literally) and can one-shot you on higher difficulties. Keep moving? No problem, except when the enemies accidentally spawn *inside* you and break your play-through, forcing you to start over. Compound all of this inconvenience with incessant bugs, crashes to desktop and a 4-hour run time and you start to ask yourself why anyone would buy this game for over $5.

This would've been a great mod...for a game in 2008. Avoid unless you can get it at $5 or less.

Not worth the time. There are better games available.

6/10.

(mini-review). This sometimes-pretty throwback shooter feels like a K-Mart or Xiaomi knockoff of a regular AAA shooter. Some good, punchy weapons, and decent traversal mechanics are completely undone by a nonsensical story, lifeless, linear maps, prefab-looking assets and atrocious AI (As an aside, why try to employ stealth with such dumb AI?). The most damning elements of the game stem from truly unfair fights where enemies just spawn a foot behind you (literally) and can one-shot you on higher difficulties. Keep moving? No problem, except when the enemies accidentally spawn *inside* you and break your play-through, forcing you to start over. Compound all of this inconvenience with incessant bugs, crashes to desktop and a 4-hour run time and you start to ask yourself why anyone would buy this game for over $5. This would've been a great mod...for a game in 2008. Avoid unless you can get it at $5 or less. Not worth the time. There are better games available. 6/10.