According to Wikipedia this sold less the 400,000 copies. How this amazing game went under the radar for most people is beyond me. I don't usually like shooters, but having an interesting gimmick as a core gameplay element consistently captures my attention. You can get really creative with how you use the tools provided to you. If you're feeling fancy, you can win a fight without using a single bullet. While the shooting itself isn't hyper-realistic and often feels like your gun fires lasers (especially relevant for the minigun) I do believe that only encourages using alternative methods of engagement. Although by the end of the game you essentially feel like a god moving through everything. Absolutely loved the setting and visual design of the game. I'm Russian, and I can attest that Soviet-era feeling is captured (mostly) well (as opposed to writing everything in KЯЭMLIN font and calling it a day). The story is a bit lacking though. For the majority of the game you get only the bits related to where you need to go to shoot the bad guys. For some reason the game REALLY underestimates your ability to connect events. I mean that something really plain and obvious gets brought up in the end as if it's some sort of unexpected revalation. The ending itself is really satisfying though. Now about the stuff that I didn't like. Some functions served different purposes but could only be assigned a single key, so you'd have to hold it to do one thing while the other only came up in certain context. I assume this was done to make the game gamepad-viable, but on keyboard that was very frustrating. Especially since one very commonly used key would charge a special move if you happened to hold it for too long. Not only that move used energy, but it also delayed whatever you wanted to do, making some battles much harder. One bosses attacks were very confusing as to where they would hit, which is a shame because the fight looked amazing otherwise. Great game overall.
