The weapons feel very unsatisfying and anemic. It just doesn't feel fun to fire the weapons and the katana has no weight to it on hits so it feels very floaty. Game isn't properly balanced for the hitscanning enemies, and the level design is messy at best. There are much better games out there using the Doom engine, such as Supplice, Selaco, or Ashes 2063 (A free Doom TC.) Give this a pass.
I got this on a whim and refunded because the movement mechanics, damage feedback and weapon feel is so poor that I'd rather replay one of the dozen much better retroFPSes avaliable than this. If this was the first game to come out in this style, say, in 2012, then I'd probably be a lot more forgiving, but I can't do this now considering the wealth of options avaliable that are vastly superior. Skip.
I've been expecting the game since the first trailer years ago, and I made it a point to go into it totally blind and honestly it was pretty cool. I see it as a kind of Deus Ex 3, in a lot of ways. Yeah it's got an open world, yeah it's got vehicles, but the core of the game itself feels more in that direction than, say, GTA or any traditional RPG. As for the story, I think it's a good cyberpunk story with all the things I'd want and expect a cyberpunk story to have, and that's just fine with me. So this gets my recommendation if you like deus ex-type games since in terms of setting and gameplay those games are very close to what this game is doing. Do not expect a "real" sandbox like GTA or other such games, or a traditional RPG of any kind (like a more faithful adaptation of CP2077's source material would be.)
This is more like Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone, and so on than Doom proper. It's as if someone kept updating that type of game and it really has a similar kind of "restrictiveness" to its design. However, I think it works really well and the level design is well made around the way the engine works. In fact, I'd say the level design is sometimes quite stellar! The game has a progression system with RPG-like elements, but it's a little on the shallow side and I think it's fine that way. But, considering the above, this is actually kind of its own thing really. It's not really much of a "homage" to anything retro specifically, but rather it could as well have come out back then and it would've been pretty well received I think. Why not 5 stars? The release version has problems with the lighting and there are some bugs here and there, it's not horrible but it will need fixing. The dev is pretty active and that's very nice to see. The last thing is that the magic system is a little underdeveloped, but it still has some function but it would've been nice to see it work better than it does.
