PEAK!!!!!!!!!

BUG-CHASER or Total Fail of Recall

***Occasional spoilers below***

When I started playing I was going to write a positive review. There still going to be some residual praze.
The beginning is amazing. The first enemies you encounter are hard but in an interesting way - place your shot well and you barely spent a a few rounds, get a well placed shot - and loose most of your health. Thus you end up playing tactical, thinking on every turn, and if you do it right, then you come out on top. That's how you make an interesting combat and make the player engage in game mechanics - not bullet sponges always placed the way (that would never happen in real life) to hit the player and make them reload (Yes, "Prey", we are looking at you). The level itself is logical, realistic, but still serves the gameplay... And then downhill from there

The further the missions, the more environment becomes more in-your-face game level and less actual functioning living and breathing space with certain everyday function. I threw those thoughts away after Yakudza penthouse - an actual feudal Japanese mansion that you see and feel people live in, during the rain (actual raining rain!) and a view of New York-like metropolis... But by the time you get to Mars non of immersion from that moment is left... That was one of two things keeping me playing (yes, I know you looked at my time played). Second was...

The story. The story was good... until it wasn't. It looked like the authors just lost their inspiration somewhere after the middle. Until then I would close my eyes on cheesy voice-acting. After Mars it made story looked forced. Even the twist in the end that you probably saw coming the from after mission... 3, I think, suddenly feels contrived and a tragedy for tragedy's sake.
Artificiality of level-design doesn't help. Oh, you wanted to run around and shoot bad guys like in "Total Recall"? Too bad for you - here's an obstacle course with bad guys who... how the hell did they get there?!! And good luck finding where you need to go/climb - we'll make a puzzle game.. without puzzle, just try everything. Oh you didn't know you should climb THESE SPECIFIC irons stuck out of the wall of a falling apart rebel base? Well, too bad- you should've thinking like a burn-out schizophrenic. You wanted to fight along-side rebels? Sorry - no allies in post half-life game. We don't do it over here. Invisible walls and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ jump mechanics don't help either. Last third of the game is you thinking "Am I doing this wrong or am I not supposed to do that at all".
Also, also - remember int the beginning enemies not being bullet sponges? Guessed already?

Well, ok - you think - I'll show them how I can kick bad guys' ass myself. After all I'm a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Chaser who is looked for on both planetsss.s.s.s.s.s.s.s.s. Sorry, You'll have to reload earlier save - you are stuck on the... something. And don't try to no clip if game engine locked you - Steam disabled noclip command. Doesn't matter if it's not your fault. Do over. We don't provide entertainment here.
Ladders. As i mentioned - Half-Life came 3. YEARS. BEFORE! And it nailed ladder usage. Well, forget a habbit of using it as normal being - ladders will throw you off should as much as wave your mouse. And gods forbid you start descending immediately: prosecutors fined with 80 health (yeah, tough guy Chaser is really frail in his knees; that's probably he jumps worse then Alan Wake runs (the untrained civilian)).

So yes - from the breathtaking to abomination. Slowly, like some poison. That's what it is.
Do Yourself a favour - watch the walkthrough on youtube and spend Your money on something nice for Your loved one... or Yourself.