Messiah

Interesting but sort of a weird game. It feels very much like the original idea and intention for the game can be seen in the last levels of the game which are lively with people hanging out, cool character and environment design, and more content than jumping and shooting. All the previous levels with sewer dwellers and soldiers are very dull and sometimes pretty frustrating too compared to the last levels. With the exception of the last bossfight which is horrible :D. It seems like the main part of the game was quickly put together before the release and the devs paid the most attention to the last levels. In one of the earlier levels there's an interesting little thing there with it's own cutscene even that's somehow completely pointless and feels very much like a scrapped idea that somehow got forgotten and remained in the final game. For those last levels I give a 4 star score even despite the crap the game put me through before (it's a mix of entertaining and frustrating but definitely with very dull with bland environments and not too many puzzles and too much shooting and platforming) and despite all the technical issues the game has on newer systems. It runs but with resolution flipping on loading and prerendered cutscenes, sound cutting out (could be only with the fear factory soundtrack, "fixable" by turning the music on and off again), a whole level necessary to play without any sound as the sound makes the game crash LOL :D etc.

Finally played to completion after many years of wondering what this game is all about. It reminds me a lot of another 2000s-era game (that Jesper Kyd also worked on) - Hitman: Codename 47. Like that game, it's occasionally confusing and frustrating. Like that game, it's occasionally juvenile, mean-spirited, and silly in the way games from 2000 were. Like that game, it has a tendency to drop you into sprawling environments with multiple objectives and let you figure it out. Like many games from this era, combat actually sucks and the environmental puzzle-solving and platforming are the interesting bits. But it's relatively short, it's weird, it's interesting, and once you get it set up and working and understand what kind of game it's trying to be, it's fun little bit of experimentation with an industrial-grotty aesthetic that is very time-and-place. (Whoever decided to smear over the actually-good Jesper Kyd ambient tracks with Fear Factory was a doofus though, and you can tell not everyone was sold on it - there's an option to turn that off in the menu)

Perfect original idea !

I like the conseption and that the game is one od better games i player in 2025

I always loved this game, the gameplay suits me perfectly; a mix between stealth and action. The mood it sets is great, and even if the story isn't the best the varied and fun gameplay makes up for it. Heartily recommended.