Overhaul mods are impressive and give the game a second youth. Playing the game you can tell it's old (controls are definitely worse than in the Witcher3), the playground is limited compared to newer game. But still, you quickly get drawn to the dirty atmosphere and enjoy the story.
Lots of bugs, puzzles are bad, story is unintersting, controls are frustrating. Do not play this game.
The atmoshpere is there, especially during the first hours when you discover the game. Then "the Soufflé collapses", as did my hopes, when I realised the game was a never ending sequence of round trips in a weirdly inhabited city. NPC are just there. In weird places. You visit the same places again and again (very few variations in the "homes" we can visit.) Monsters pop randomly. As do crafting materials. We don't have to solve mysteries, the hero being able to re-live scenes from the past (really practical when you are a detective). The game announces "detective gameplay". That's true: we get the boring stuff: going from A to B. Searching in archives using an horrible search system. Even using the map is a pain. It's fun for 5 minutes to manually place tags. Then it gets boring. And not being able to have all of them displayed at the same time is just another nail in the coffin. The game is boring, ergonomics are bad. Sherlock Holmes games are a better choice.
The best RTS ever. Still enjoyable more than twenty years later. The typical game you start and the evening, then look up your screen an realise it's 3 in the morning.
