...The bad is still there, constantly reminding you the wasted potential of the game. It's a cool setting. The atmosphere is great. There's a LOT of really cool details, the amount of control you have on your secret organisation is insane: Move your base across the globe, brainwash agent, put moles in enemy organisation, dope your agents. Unlock a huge variety of guns, use cool abilities... ...all of this to realize the balance is all over the place and that the game philosophy does not goes well with the tons of little toys they gave you. You get cool weapons, cool grenade, but the game heavily punish firefight and constantly urge and reward you to use stealth. Using weapons without silencer will lead to a lot of trouble and even if you get out alive, you're still in trouble; Identities of your secret agent may be comprised (and forging new fake ID cost money), the danger level therefore increase, forcing you to relocate base (and this cost A LOT of money) an overall, it's a very bad move. The problem is that you also realize that gunfight balance is all over the place. Enemy LOS are still kind of messed up even post-patch, most of your gadget are useless (Flashbang and noise grenade are utterly pointless, for instance: their radius is ridiculously small and even if you hit, enemies act like nothing happens and still shoot at you anyway), while a few of them are OP. The gameplay itself is ok, although the promised "NO RNG" through the awereness mechanism just introduce equally weird situation were you shoot at people and they just dodge bullet after bullet like it's nothing. Stealth is also poorly balanced: Two agent with high range of movement, with desguise and the "actor" trait will clear any mission, especially since enemies don't react to broken windows, noise, or people crashing through glass roof. But don't let my rant discourage you: Despite these flaws, it sill a game worth its price and I happily sank 80 hours in it without any regret.
