A nice little game, but a bit short for the price point. Also, most puzzles where a bit on the easy side, and you are usually confined to very small areas at a time and very few inventory items, making solutions even more obvious. Best part of the game was the puzzle(s) before the first main "happening".
I love the game mechanics, it is just like playing Eye of the Beholder again, just with much better graphics. The game is also very fun in the beginning. The first couple of levels are a blast. But as you play further, once quickly starts to feel that this game lacks any kind of depth. There are a lot of puzzles of varying difficulty levels to challenge you, but there is basically no real story here. I played through the game, but my enjoyment steadily dropped all the way through, and the game felt very repetitive after a short while. I've played through the entire EoB series countless times, but I don't think I am going to play this one again, it doesn't really have that much of a replay value once you finished it, even if you didn't find all the secrets on the first playthrough.
This game is incredible fun. You control a team of up to 4 syndicate agents with cybernetic enhancements, which you use to complete different types of missions (kill, protect, persuade) to conquer territories for your organization. with the tax money from conquered territories, you can further equip and enhance your agent, and spend money on research to invent better weapons and cybernetics. By increasing the drug levels given to your agents, they even act autonomously, shooting enemies when they come into range, saving you from having to micro-manage each agent at all times. It is a bit short, but the time it does last is time spent in much enjoyment. In many respects, it reminds me a little about UFO: Enemy Unknown, although the combat is real-time and not turn based, but you have the same thrill of money management and research to upgrade your team, making them better at kicking the asses of your enemies.
This game is rather boring, and the story is nothing to write home about. I normally enjoy Salvatore's writings, but this game does not live up to his books. Also, this is categorized as an RPG. If you buy this game, expecting an RPG, you will quickly realize that this game is not one. Yes, it is set in a 'RPG World', and it uses classes/items/spells/skills from an RPG game, but the similarities ends there. This is a pure action-based, completely linear, Hack'n'Slash game, with no real RPG elements whatever. If you love those types of games, maybe you'll like this one, but for me, who love games like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, this is a huge disappointment and was really not worth my time.
