Believe me, there are awesome abilities there, and in general, the alternatives are all worth exploring, and you'll discover some way you'll get into, for handling the forces that attempt to stop you. Which of the dozen or so well-selected, cool and distinguished guns you carry with you is always up to you, as well, since you can't keep everything you find, and whether you particularly use them, or go with Psi, the powers of your mind. Regardless of the foe, there are several weapons that are capable of taking it out. Avoid, destroy, or hack the camera or turret? The AI is impeccable.

There is an enormous amount of freedom of choice, in what you focus on using, as well as how you deal with the numerous, creatively done and scary enemies(honestly, in no other case have I been as consistently, thoroughly and completely paralyzed and disconcerted by what was coming to get me), as well as the omnipresent security systems that have been turned against you. You also develop and refine the various skills that are vital to your goal. As you progress, you piece together what exactly has happened, mainly through the countless audio logs. This transports you to this amazing, full, credible universe, and establishes a solid cast of characters, whilst building and maintaining an immensely strong atmosphere of solitude and ever-present threat. The writing is razor-sharp, throughout, in all cases, the interesting concept, lines, plot, everything. Mixing FPS action with survival horror, sprinkling RPG and adventure, in a story which is science-fiction drama and cyberpunk, this somehow manages to make an incredible final product, with no rough edges.

Something goes wrong aboard it, however, and you find yourself waking up with no recollection of what has gone on since it left Earth. This takes place in the future, the year of 2114 to be exact, when humanity is about to travel to other systems than our own by way of the massive starship, the Von Braun. Apart from this and Deus Ex, I haven't played, nor do I know of any others. It refers to a title that combines genres, or elements of them. You may have heard of the term 'hybrid', in relation to video-games.

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