The version of the game sold on GOG is a single-player only edition – it means online and LAN modes are not accessible.
As a member of the strange secret society E.Y.E, you wake up after a fight in which your fellow teammates were killed. E.Y.E, an armed branch of the Secreta Secretorum is attem...
The version of the game sold on GOG is a single-player only edition – it means online and LAN modes are not accessible.
As a member of the strange secret society E.Y.E, you wake up after a fight in which your fellow teammates were killed. E.Y.E, an armed branch of the Secreta Secretorum is attempting a coup against the all-powerful Federation, a coalition of several worlds and planets that rule with an iron fist.
To complicate matters, E.Y.E itself is plagued with its own internal conflicts between the Jian faction and the Culter faction, to which you belong. Your loyalties are torn between Commander Rimanah, your superior and the chief of the Secreta who is a separatist with an unstoppable ambition, and the "Mentor" your friend and instructor. The "Mentor" tries at all costs to unite the two rival factions. In doing so, you are thrust into the middle of a fratricidal war frought with political conspiracies and quests for power in which different groups and megacorporations are implicated.
These troubles set the stage for an attack by an unknown force bent on destroying humankind.
Key features:
Multiplayer co-op modes directly influence solo play, and vice-versa. The limits of solo and multiplayer games are finally left behind.
Psychological and mental trauma management.
25 weapons, different shooting modes, dynamic precision, drilling shots, iron sighting, extended zoom.
Complete hacking system with game play impact
9 devastatingly subtle PSI powers.
More than 20 NPC with non-scripted, fully reactive and efficient AI, endowed with a sense of initiative. Bloody close combat with technical detail. Incredible physical movement realism thanks to Source Engine physics.
Excellent replayability - primary and secondary missions, dynamic environments, non-linear level progression, and random NPC spawn, type and appearance. Death doesn't penalize players: no need to restart the current mission.
Open-level gameplay for hours of fun without reloading.
One of the most fun and enjoyable I played. The story is almost incoherent, but it accually helps it. Game play is great (especially after leveling). Graphics didnt age well, but desing and atmosphere are still great. It is one of those game you wish developers would have higher budget when developing. I wish Streum would stop developing bad W40K games (IMO) and redone this unfinished master peace!
It's definetely a different game. Very weird and hard to understnad any of the mechanics due to problems translating from french I'm assuming. You are just going to have no idea what your doing most of the time. Not an incredibly buggy and janky game but it's definetely jank.
I have this on steam. Real good gameplay I thought.
Keeping up with the story is questionable as you will need to replay the game over multiple times to get the "end " level. But putting together the pieces on your own is confusing as well.
I really did enjoy the gameplay mechanics from wielding sword and pistol, using psychic abilities and failing at hacking attempts.
Steum has projects working on 40K and this game has some similiarities to the 40K universe as they are fans. Maybe one day they will be able to make a part 2.
I bought this game years ago on Steam, have a ton of hours in it. On the surface it is a HL2 engine cyberpunk game, but sooooo much more.
To really do the description justice, I feel you need someone far smarter than myself, with a much larger vocabulary
Aside from a great bio-mod system, the hacking sub game is great, if you like a zone you can get randomly generated missions outside of the story stuff for as long as you want. But the plot, which is kinda a mind bender is what makes it so great. This is as much psychological thriller as it is anything else. The game is one big mobius loop, and you need iirc 4 play through's to find the REAL ending. But you get a crapton of weird plot stuff designed to make you question your own role. You have a meeting, then later someone claims you were arguing with yourself in an empty office, a friend telling you some very odd allegories (there are a few of them in the game) and it is obvious there is more going on here than is obvious, then he dies, gets killed and EATEN in front of you. But he is alive in the next mission, standing outside while aircraft are strafing and he is untouched and saying "Bet you're surprised to see me". The blind woman who gives you some almost biblical style parables, with interesting ties to you, the mentor, and Riminah. Or the fact that everytime you die, or reload your game you start out in this weird nightmare dreamscape again, which has a lot more to it than face value.
I love this game, introduced friends to it who have played it obsessively as well.
It is NOT perfect, it is HL2 so 90% of the time the AI is great, then it goes utterly braindead at random.
Also game was not originally in English, so some translations are reeeeeally weird\awkward.
Also the game encourages wandering, but has checkpoints, so if you dont wander in the right direction you can go for hours with no save, and if you have to leave, your game progress may be lost. Main reason I haven't played it more.
paste of my steam comment (180 hours played)
This game is sooo good, it'll break your legs, hack your screen, drive you mad, permanently ruin your character in the lobby if you are not carefull, trap you between a cyber demon and a deadly helicopter, screw your save, empty all your amunitions and wonder what the devs wanted you to understand with their story.
But you'll earn a lot of brouzouf so....
More seriously, this is a raw gem, it's a gem, a life changer experience but it's raw, check some gameplay before.
paste of my mandalore gaming video comment:
The term brouzouf is not really french slang, i am not sure any people i know ever heard of it. It comes from a parodic science fiction show named "objectif nul", aired on canal + in 1987. This show was the first appearance of "les nuls", in which alain chabat was more or less what we could call the leader (if there was any). Alain chabat was (still is, perhaps) a great fan of a ultra violent science phy comics (or bande dessinée) named ranx xerox and wrote the scenario of the third opus in 1996 named amen!, ranx xerox could certainly fit in the inspiration source of E.Y.E for it's craziness and lack of value of human life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6lqFlQ7EAM
and a reply:
The term was popularized among french gamers by the Joystick staff who used it liberally instead of "money".
link to mandalore video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AScCVzENcjs
I am still thinking if i am going to buy this game or not on GOG, drm free vs only single player, still wondering.
If you like strange and marvelous think, get it.