Picked it up for $7.50 on Steam during the Xmas sale, finally started it up today.  I can see why people compare it to Mass Effect, it's got a lot in common with that game.  I'm about 8 hours in now, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.  The story, the acting, the locations are all top notch so far.  There's a definite jankiness to the game, the shooting mechanic is flawed, and once I had all the enemies just disappear from an area.  In spite of that, the story and feeling of real choice in the game make it one of the best games I've played in a while.  It's really too bad that it didn't sell well enough to warrant a sequel, nobody should have to buy a broken game, but at the same time I think a followup that addresses the big issues people have and keeps the pacing and story would be a worthwhile experience.
 
If you're someone who can look beyond the mechanical shortcomings of a game and enjoy the story, I totally recommend it.

Get ready for the end of the game where, for whatever reasons, they decided to design a succession of boss fights that highlight everything that is wrong with the game mechanically. It's hair pulling until you find a way to cheese the fight, then it's just dull. That said, I agree that it would be nice if they had another shot at it, but maybe someone else will take a crack at it down the road in a new IP.

" Get ready for the end of the game where, for whatever reasons, they decided to design a succession of boss fights that highlight everything that is wrong with the game mechanically. It's hair pulling until you find a way to cheese the fight, then it's just dull. That said, I agree that it would be nice if they had another shot at it, but maybe someone else will take a crack at it down the road in a new IP. "

" Get ready for the end of the game where, for whatever reasons, they decided to design a succession of boss fights that highlight everything that is wrong with the game mechanically. It's hair pulling until you find a way to cheese the fight, then it's just dull. That said, I agree that it would be nice if they had another shot at it, but maybe someone else will take a crack at it down the road in a new IP. "

If you've come close to the end, I say just finish it and be done, because there is some cool stuff in the end that incorporates all your choices in the game up to that point. The final boss fights can be cheesed, or at least it was how I handled them. With max Stealth and Rifles it was just a matter of waiting for my 30 second cloak to come up and then pop long enough to get a head shot. It was boring and tedious, but necessary considering how batshit crazy the fights are otherwise. I really want to know what was running through the designers head when he made those fights, because nothing about them was fun or interesting.

Curious as to if you installed any mods, or if there are any. I would assume by now the modding community has at least attempted to fix a lot of problems.

" Curious as to if you installed any mods, or if there are any. I would assume by now the modding community has at least attempted to fix a lot of problems. "

" @Chris2KLee: Either "Patch" 1.1.exe is a crack or it just made a sketchy game a whole lot sketchier.  "

" @me3639 said:

" Curious as to if you installed any mods, or if there are any. I would assume by now the modding community has at least attempted to fix a lot of problems. "

I looked, there don't seem to be too be any mods out there, at least nothing that fixes the gameplay problems. I don't think the game did well enough to warrant a modding community, and I don't think Obsidian or Sega were interested in supporting such a community with tools. I played the the game vanilla from Direct2Drive, which stated it was version 1.0. I know there was a patch to 1.1 or something, but that patch had no notes, and for PC it's just an exe file you replace your exe with. "