I had fun with this game. At the beginning it's kinda annoying and doesn't make sense, initially you are very underpowered and you just have to keep gradually building up resources until you can buy some permanent upgrades.

Once you have a good number of upgrades, the game gets into a decent flow where you have to remain somewhat engaged to get a viable build, choosing some objectives for each run in order to unlock stuff is quite satisfying and fun.

Once you get a good build going though, the game basically plays itself and I feel like the game becomes very boring at that point. You are just waiting for the timer to tick up until the run ends.

The variety in weapons and upgrades is pretty cool though, and even as you get more experienced you end up with crazier and more overpowered builds which do still manage to entertain me quite a bit.

I really respect what Wadjet Eye tried to do with Unavowed, and a lot of it worked really well for me. However, ultimately I think it was perhaps a little too ambitious in scope for the resources that they have available.

By having so many choices in the game, it means that a huge chunk of the game is not seen in a single playthrough, with many optional pieces of dialog and character building. I think the development resources were stretched a bit too thin in order to achieve this and I felt this most keenly in the puzzle design - almost every puzzle has a very simple solution, there are very few items in the game and much of it is progressed simply by exhausting all dialog options. Many of the encounters feel quite shallow as different characters need to be able to slot in and out of the situations depending on your choices.

I do like the characters and the world, some more than others, and I really liked the idea of having companion characters along for the ride with lots of idle chitchat and colouring the world for you. The "silent protagonist" style makes sense and they do some cool stuff with it, but I still didn't really like it. Your main character is incredibly dull in almost every way and it doesn't really make sense that you have as much control over events as you do.

Still I would be interested in a tighter, more focused sequel. Personally I would prefer if each mission just had set companions that insist they come a long for whatever reason and the entire sequence was structured with those characters in mind.

The achievements were also very annoying, requiring you to play through the pretty much the whole game with every possible combination of characters in order to get them all.

I like point-and-click games, and I like a cyberpunk setting and I think this game delivers. It explores a lot of dystopian sci-fi concepts in I think quite compelling ways. I'm not sure if it brings anything new to the table but it is extremely competent in adapting existing ideas. The spread of characters is interesting, with good vocal performances all round. A decent sense of humour, and a lot of great worldbuilding.

As a point-and-click, it is also competent with mostly good puzzles that can sometimes stump you for a while but nothing that is completely ridiculous.

Played this game both singleplayer and co-op, I think this is generally an improvement on Conviction with fun stealth mechanics, gadgets, etc. The game often lets you play it like a standard shooter, with loud guns, grenades, etc. and playing this way feels a lot more generic.

Even playing full stealth there is some weirdness and glitches, several sections where it seems being spotted is unavoidable but if you replay repeatedly and things pan out just right you can most times avoid being seen.

Still this game can be a fun time and I have always enjoyed Splinter Cell co-op (although it may be a lot more difficult now that Ubisoft took down the servers).