TLDR; If you do not care about achievements, buy on sale. If you care about achievements and want to go for 100%, prepare to grind for +100 hours.

Oh E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, what a wonderfully beautiful piece of mess you are.
Having played this game for over 150 hours and getting 100% of the achievements, I have conflicted feelings about this game.
On one hand, the game has some really cool weapons and abilities, art direction that can sometimes be really unique and beautiful, and some killer background music.
But, the game also has really bland level design, some completely useless weapons, and all in all just bad design choices. This truly feels like a fan-made indie Source mod from the early 2010s.
The story, which is badly translated from French to English, has some interesting parts to it, but it reeks of fanfiction .net-style of writing. Some of the characters are interesting and have some really good lines, but mostly it's nothing special. The bad translation makes for some really memetic lines tho. (Yes, I know there is a fan translation mod that corrects the broken English, but it doesn't fix the broken story)

The enemies range from OK to kinda bad. They can be roughly divided into 2 types - enemies with guns who just run and shoot at you; and melee enemies who just run at you to hit you. The AI is pretty bad, basically your typical Source AI just made a bit worse. Mostly all of the enemies just run at you if they see you, and the alien-type enemies seem to be able to track you even if they do not know where you are. The enemies spawning system is also as simple as can be - they have set spawn points, and if the player doesn't see there, spawn enemies. This means that you can get enemies to spawn by running around the corner and back, and in some cases even just by turning around. This makes the game feel even more cheaper.
The enemy design is also rather boring - the alien faction consists solely of designs take from other franchises. At least the "ally" factions have really nice looking designs.

The worst sin for me is the achievements. The game has 100 of them, and about 50 so half are random research item drops and kill achievements that you get for killing enemies. Now this can be done in a way that makes sense, but the developers decided to make it so the drops and kills you already have are not removed from the pool. So you will keep getting the same ones over and over again while hunting your last ones. All in all, it took me maybe 75 hours of grinding and about 35,000 kills to get all of them. This was not fun at all.
The game also has 1 multiplayer only achievement, where you have to kill a player by overdosing them with medkit. I don't really appreciate these kinds of achievements, since they can be rendered impossible to get should the multiplayer service be shut down, or just extremely hard in the case of not having any players online. Luckily I was able to do this even in Nov 2020.

The multiplayer of this game can be fun, especially playing the campaign with other players. The game offers plenty of chances for funny shenanigans and memorable moments with friends and random people in public servers. The sad part is that since this game is from 2011, there are not that many players online anymore. Still, I was able to find a few people on the public servers here and there. (Thank you to the 2 random people who helped me get the 1 multiplayer achievement this game has!)


All in all, even for its flaws, I still enjoyed this game and the strange community that has formed around it, and I'd say it was worth the money. It's not quite what you'd call a cult classic or a hidden gem, more like a weird experience that certain kinds of people will enjoy.

If you do decide to buy this game and join us in the Brouzouf-filled cycles of guilt, remember the number one rule - do not make waves.

My legs are OK