Terrible. Clunky and inaccurate controls are coupled with AI that is both hyper aware and painfully stupid. Maps are large and enemies love to stand in front of windows and shoot you from outside the screen, but they'll also rush you like lemmings as soon as you fire a single shot so you can just hold a corridor and mow them down effortlessly, which is the only way you can hope to completeTerrible. Clunky and inaccurate controls are coupled with AI that is both hyper aware and painfully stupid. Maps are large and enemies love to stand in front of windows and shoot you from outside the screen, but they'll also rush you like lemmings as soon as you fire a single shot so you can just hold a corridor and mow them down effortlessly, which is the only way you can hope to complete the game on a higher difficulty (such as the obnoxiously named 'True' difficulty, described as the game's intended experience). There are six movement speeds, of which only the fastest matters, and several weapons that are completely identical except for name and weight. None of this matters, because you can bring an assault rifle with large amounts of ammo to any mission and easily mow the entire map down.
The presented story is a greasy, juvenile revenge fantasy, John Wick if it was written by an edgy child; a junkie kills your brother and this gives you moral license to go on a rampage. One of the first things you achieve is killing the man who did your brother in, but the viewpoint character keeps going long after one's empathy for him has run out. The game plainly refers to homeless junkies as 'degenerates' that need to be purged and no character in this game can go for more than a few scenes without throwing slurs into the wind. Did I mention there's slurs? Enemies in this game bombard you with homophobic slurs nonstop, because this is a mature and realistic game, and adults can't go two sentences without using the F-word, right?
The game's developer, when responding to Steam reviews, loves to quote that one technically never has to kill any homeless junkies to complete the game, but given the previously mentioned horrendous AI and the way the game's themes are presented that's extremely disingenuous. Whoever made this clearly has some extremely pointed opinions on what should be done about the homeless which they completely fail to divorce from the product.
The one credit I can give this game is that it's very sound from a technical standpoint: I never experienced any bugs or glitches and the options menu is well-stocked.
If you're looking for a serious, punishing stealth game, there are better options. If you're looking for a lurid power fantasy, there are better options. Don't waste your time with this.… Expand
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