This is how Cyberpunk 2077 should be. Confusing to the bones, fun until the end, a story people are still discussing, Worths of Wisdom you normally find in premium fortune cookies, legs are ok, gaining Brouzouf and Skill sets you can only Dream of.

Many people buy this game thinking they're buying a System Shock or a Deus Ex. Maybe a Borderlands or a STALKER. This is an incorrect assumption to make. It's true that EYE features many RPG elements. It has dialogue, branching paths, levels, inventory management, stores and side-missions. But this is all plays second fiddle to what EYE is really aiming for. It's not a Deus Ex as much as it is a Serious Sam. It's not a Borderlands as much as it is a Painkiller. I really cannot emphasize this enough, it's my belief that the majority of the complaints directed towards EYE stem from a false presupposition of what this game is trying to be. That is not the players fault though, because EYE doesn't exactly make these things clear.

EYE is a mess.

Unless you are a Dwarf Fortress player, EYE is likely to be the biggest, messiest game you are ever likely to see. Right off the bat it gives you a character creation screen which makes absolutely no sense to anyone beginning the game without first googling what in the hell you are looking at. The dialogue is either intentionally vague, bizarre and most of the time incomprehensible. You will be thrown into a world which appears to have some sort of lore and backstory but you'll be lucky if you ever understand a tenth of what is going on. When the game presents you with the tutorial level, many aspects of that tutorial will need tutorials themselves, and you will be confronted with a library of tutorial videos on how certain game mechanics work. Your body can be hacked and destroyed by doors and ATMs. Sometimes huge monsters will appear in the level and fire rockets in directions you didn't even know existed and you have to kill it. Sometimes you'll be tasked to kill a high ranking enemy and he will zip about the game shooting and cloaking tanking hits like nothing else. This game is primarily single-player, but you can have 64-player coop. You can buy spells and augmentations and guns and big hammers all with a currency called Brozouf which you seem to endlessly gain in areas where you are doing something for some reason for someone. EYE is a deranged and twisted mess of Syndicate, Neuromancer, Warhammer 40k and the entire personal drug stash of Hunter S. Thompson. And you know what? It's amazing.

There is no messing around with regenerating health, cover or killcams. You can go in fast and furious or heavy like robocop. The guns feel like they should. There is real impact when you shoot something. Enemies will go flying across the screen. You can teleport into people and laugh as they explode. You can hit people in the face with giant hammers and watch as they bounce off the walls. You can hack people. You can force push four-armed creatures into radioactive goo. You can block bullets with swords. This game can be anything you want, but above all it is satisfying.

If you get this game, it's imperative that you know what you getting into. If you want a cyberpunk dystopia with thought provoking dialogue and choices that mean something, I don't advise you to get this game. If you want a crazy FPS that is a completely unapologetic mess that explains nothing but offers everything then I would strongly recommend this game.

When my friend gifted me a copy of this game for what was essentially 75 cents, I could have been forgiven for thinking this was some kind of insult to the worth of our friendship; just another bad co-op game to mess around in and laugh at for a few hours.

I could NOT have been more wrong.

Reviewers keep saying that E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy plays like some horrifying hybrid of Deus Ex, Warhammer 40K, Ghost in the Shell... I could go on. It is a fairly convincing argument, in that I can't say there is any particular gameplay element that hasn't been done in another game, in some cases, better than E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy. But there's something about the way all the numerous elements are put together that turns the game into something inexplicably unique.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy was supposedly inspired by the creator's own tabletop RPG, and it shows. Leveling attributes, purchasing equipment, diverging quests and storylines, it is all pretty standard, but solid and really well thought out. Guns feel satisfying to use, and don't even get me started about the sword that explodes things. There's this super bizarre art-style as well, and this impenetrably complicated backstory. It plays like a lucid dream, and like a dream, it makes sense while you're in it, but once you wake up you're able once again to reflect on how absurd it was.

In fact, this game is so odd, it defies criticism. Every complaint I can render can be immediately turned into a selling point.

The confusing state of affairs and alliances in the story that would normally frustrate me is actually perfectly appropriate. It reflects how little you know about this strange place and adds weight to decisions. Frankly, it parallels how little I know about real world history, and that actually seems appropriate.

The difficult hacking is incredibly hard to master, but a door can literally hack me back and kick my face in. Spending 10 minutes hacking a gunship to be back-hacked 5 times before finally succeeding and using the gunship to level a platoon of enemies is a great feeling.

The bizarre interactions with enemies that can literally cause your character to have a mental breakdown, start hallucinating and uncontrollably shoot all your allies. This is a win-win situation when playing with your buddies. Just trust me, it is.

The severe lack of explanation of controls gives this feeling of accomplishment to figuring out how to jump. The broken English adds to the atmosphere, the characters really seem like they're speaking another language, one designed to describe psychokinetic ghost monsters that we have no easy words for in our primitive language. There are however, easily installed mods to help clarify some of the worst gramatical errors.

I should add as a last warning that when attempting to get the last "ending" of this game, I found that the final level was one of the most tedious areas in the game, filled to the brim with bullet-sponge enemies. However, the other endings were good enough for me to overlook this in the end.

When it comes down to it, E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy is a very decent and enjoyable RPG FPS that takes every opportunity to completely screw with your mind. If you are a recovering drug addict and you're feeling withdrawal, this game could substitute for altering your state of mind. And that is why I love it.

My legs are OK.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy

Recht komplexes Cyberpunk FPS/RPG.
Unglaublichen Vielfalt an Optionen und Möglichkeiten !!
Angesiedelt in einer dystopischen Zukunft à la Blade Runner/Shadowrun/Omikron the Nomad Soul spielt man als eine Art Elite-Auftragsattentäter.
des spiel ist am anfang sehr verwirrend..
aba wenn mans gschnallt hatt wies funkt
rockt es voll gut.

Mein Fazit des Spiels gibt's unten, falls einem der ausführliche Text hier zu lang sein sollte, und man grob die Stärken und Schwächen des Spiels aufgelistet haben möchte.

In E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy übernimmt man die Rolle eines psionisch begabten Cybermönchs, der Mitglied der eponymen Organisation "E.Y.E" ist, welche eben nur aus solchen psionisch begabten Cybermönchen besteht. Diese Organisation will die Regierung stürzen, muss sich aber auch mit einem internen Machtkampf zwischen den zwei verfeindeten Fraktionen herumschlagen. Der Spieler selbst ist hierbei zwischen den Fronten. Einerseits ist sein Kommandant der Ansicht, die verfeindete Fraktion müsse ausgelöscht werden, andererseits will der Freund und Mentor des Spielers diesen internen Konflikt friedlich beenden und die Fraktionen wieder einen. Beide wollen den Spieler benutzen, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen. So viel erstmal zur Handlung des Spiels. Die Rahmenhandlung ist noch viel verworrener, und kann auch ziemlich surreal werden. Hier sei aber gesagt, dass man, um die Story komplett präsentiert zu bekommen, dass Spiel mindestens dreimal durchspielen muss, mit dem selben Charakter. Allerdings wirkt das Ende ein wenig unvollständig. Es kann jedoch auch von den Machern so beabsichtigt sein, da es auch zum allgemeinen Ton des Spiels passt.

Prinzipiell kann man sagen, bei diesem Titel handelt es sich um einen Shooter mit Rollenspielelementen. Zu Beginn erstellt man sich ganz grob seinen Charakter. Wobei das hochtrabender klingt als es ist. Man sucht sich drei Gene aus, die die Eigenschaften des Charakters (Stärke, Psi-Kraft, Geschwindigkeit, etc.) beeinflussen. Diese Eigenschaften kann man nach einem Level-Up weiter verbessern. Und wie levelt man? Indem man Gegner tötet, sie verletzt oder indem man sie erfolgreich hackt, wodurch man sie sich untertan machen kann. Sogar wenn man selbst verletzt wird, bekommt man Erfahrungspunkte (wenn man stirbt, verliert man aber wieder welche). Auch das Erfüllen von Nebenmissionen wird mit Erfahrungspunkten belohnt. Nebenmissionen gibt es reichlich in den Hauptmissionen, und können die Spieldauer des Levels um ein vielfaches erhöhen. Ebenso wird durch Nebenmissionen die Handlung vertieft, da man so einiges über die Welt des Spiels erfahren kann.
Des Weiteren kann man, vorausgesetzt man hat die Mindestwerte bestimmter Eigenschaften erreicht, im Tempel noch kybernetische Upgrades kaufen, oder weiter Psi-Kräfte. Diese Upgrades ermöglichen auf Kosten der Ausdauer zum Beispiel sich unsichtbar zu machen oder im Dunkeln zu sehen. Psi-Kräfte werden für den Kampf gegen Gegner eingesetzt.

Das Spiel wird atmosphärisch sehr gut dargestellt. Ob es sich nun um den Tempel von "E.Y.E." handelt, die Straßen einer belagerten Großstadt oder die Ruinen auf dem Mars, alles wird angemessen in Szene gesetzt. Auch die akustische Untermalung passt zu den jeweiligen Situationen. So werden zum Beispiel in den Traumsequenzen surreal anmutende Klänge gespielt, während im Tempel eher durch ein tiefes Brummen die nötige Atmosphäre erzeugt wird. Zur Atmosphäre tragen ebenfalls die versteckten Dinge bei, die man in fast jedem Level entdecken kann. Viele davon sind ziemlich surreal und wirken etwas fehl am Platz, passen aber sehr gut zum Ton des Spiels und ergeben erst Sinn (meistens jedenfalls), nachdem die Handlung abgeschlossen ist.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy ist jedoch bei weitem nicht perfekt. Es gibt hier und da ein paar Ecken und Kanten, sowie technische Mängel, oder Mängel in der Benutzeroberfläche. Beispiel für letzteres: Man kann nicht jedem Menüpunkt ein Tastenkürzel zuweisen. Will man zum Beispiel in das Menü zur Verbesserung seiner Implantate, muss mam zuerst die Taste für das Inventar drücken, und dann mit der Maus auf den Reiter für die Implantate klicken. Ein paar andere Reiter in diesem Menü können jedoch über Tastenkürzel erreicht werden.
Das Fenster kann zum Glück mit einem Druck auf Escape-Taste geschlossen werden, das gilt aber nicht für das Hacking-Menü. Drückt man da auf die Escape-Taste (was intuitiv erfolgt, da sich die anderen Fenster so schließen lassen), kommt man ins Hauptmenü. Stattdessen muss man den Hacking-Modus mit einem Klick auf das Kreuz in der oberen rechten Ecke beenden... während man von allen Seiten beschossen wird.
Hinzu kommen noch ein paar Bugs, zum Beispiel dass manchmal das Missionsziel nicht aktualisiert wird oder das zu tötende Monster einfach nicht auftaucht.
Diese Kleinigkeiten reichen jedoch nicht aus, um die guten Seiten von E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy zunichte zu machen.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy ist mal ein etwas anderer Shooter, der verschiedene Elemente in sich vereint. Die kleinen Schwächen werden durch das interessante Gameplay und die gelungene Atmosphäre wieder wettgemacht. Anfangs ist es recht schwierig, sich an das Spiel zu gewöhnen. Wenn man ihm aber eine Chance gibt, wird man (und vielleicht auch bis zu drei seiner Freunde) gut unterhalten werden.

In a sense, it is silly for me to post a review for this game since this is such a love-it-or-hate-it game that there is no way to tell if you like it except by playing it yourself. (Quite conveniently there is a demo.)

I will admit, I was afraid that this game would be next in a streak of bad purchases on my part. E.Y.E quickly showed me that my doubts were unfounded.

E.Y.E is a combat focused fps/rpg, and the combat is amazing. In this game, an assault rifle is not a bullet hose; it is a deadly weapon with high recoil and each shot having extreme stopping power. The hunting rifle feels like it could kill a god. The Damocles sword causes explosions on hit and can block bullets.

In addition to all that, your play style can be augmented with powers such as the cloak (A la Crysis) or the dermal sheath to enhance your armor. You can obtain spells that can drive a target insane to stir up chaos within a horde or you can implode an enemy and teleport to where it used to be.

Most of this is unlocked by spending money (Brouzouf) at the temple HQ. In addition to that, you spend money to purchase cybernetic upgrades anywhere which enhance your powers and statistics.

In addition to all that, you can save multiple characters that play wildly differently.

Now for the bad stuff. This game is prone to bugs, including an unfortunate bug that causes saving to not work sometimes. That is the number one word of caution I'd issue to potential customers, but if you are willing to put up with it you will be rewarded.

As others have said, this game does not explain itself very well. I didn't have too much trouble getting into it, but some will. (I would suggest using auto skill point allocation on your first attempt.) A more diplomatic reviewer would say that there is a strong element of discovery; the fact that this game tells you so little means you can play for months and still find something completely new.

And there are bizarre and often unnecessary mechanics such as sanity, which can be nullified by the research system. Dying has potential to leave a permanent statistical penalty, except that it's not really permanent. You can also get rid of that with the research system. (The research system being one of the most bizarre and unintuitive parts of the game.)

Having said all of that, I would still strongly recomend this title to anybody that has patience for a game that is a little rough around the edges. Very few games are as rewarding as this, and for $10 it is an excelent value.

Recht komplexes Cyberpunk FPS/RPG. Ich habe es zwar nur relativ kurz gespielt, kann aber sagen, dass es Spaß macht. Ich denke, dass es aufgrund seiner hohen Komplexität und leider nur englischen (zumindest nicht deutschen) Sprache nicht so populär ist. Da es aber einen Koop gibt, kann ich (vor allem, wenn es wie momentan für 1 Euro im Angebot ist) den Kauf durchaus empfehlen. :)

Sort of like Warhammer 40K and Ghost In the Shell mixed together except everybody on the development team was freebasing LSD while watching the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

You have to admire a game with ambition. Unfortunately, sometimes, a game shoots for the moon and misses – a game with incredible ambition just may not have the budget or staff to fully realise those ideas, but you have to give credit to a developer for trying something a little different.

E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy does not shoot for the moon. It hammers together a death laser from twigs and spunk and accidently blows up an orphanage. This game was sold to me as “Warhammer 40000 meets Deus Ex”, but really that does not do this game justice. Everything about E.Y.E is completely and irredeemably mad.

Things start as they mean to continue. The game immediately asks you to create a character with a baffling recombinant genetic system – various genes are spliced together to form a statistical framework for your character, with absolutely no indication what the various stats might be used for nor how they’re calculated. This quickly becomes a running theme throughout this game, as you’re dumped into the universe with absolutely no clue what is going on - either in the games utterly labyrinthine underlying system, or in the bonkers story that surrounds it.

You play a cyber-knight wizard from a monastic order of Space Templars – immediately familiar territory for fans of Games Workshop, though there’s definitely an underlying layer of French surrealism that goes beyond the weirdest nonsense dribbled out of Nottingham. From what I can gather from the largely gibberish story, you are trying to topple a poorly defined federation, as well as dealing with a schism in your order which has lead to cyber wizard infighting. You also conveniently have amnesia, or cyberbrain damage, or something, though in a break from tired tradition everyone treats you like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ whenever you ask any questions you should blatantly already know.

There’s also monsters that come from, or are maybe made out of something called the meta-streumonic force. This force seems to give you psychic powers (because of course it does), but is otherwise unexplained. It mainly serves to add a bit of enemy variety, though considering how annoying these monsters are to fight, you might wish the developers hadn’t bothered.

E.Y.E. is an RPG/shooter hybrid, one that takes heavy influence from genre luminaries Deus Ex and System Shock 2. The abilities and equipment available to even a starting character is surprisingly vast. In addition to the expected cybernetic upgrades, there are also psychic powers – you begin the game with the ability to clone yourself three times, which in addition to giving the enemies more targets also have an admirable level of firepower, though they appear to have graduated from stormtrooper marksmanship academy. Most characters will choose to specialise as the higher levels of psychic powers, cybernetic upgrades and weapons are only available to characters with an appropriately high stat. Unusually, every stat is useful, and it is quite possible to make a “jack of all trades” character without gimping yourself.

The actual missions are a hectic, sprawling and confused affair. The mission maps are absolutely enormous, and there are multiple ways to complete a mission with various styles that are effective. Combat wise, a character based on hacking and cyberwear might use his cloak to close , drop a drone and hack an enemies brain, whereas a psychic knight might teleport (well, telefrag) about the battlefield cleaving up enemies with the preposterously powerful melee options. Enemies respawn and mill about the place, and unfortunately are ridiculously accurate over long distances – early characters can often find themselves turned into cyber mulch before they even work out where fire is coming from. This can make a sniper weapon even for close range beatsticks an unfortunate necessity.

The ways in which characters can complete objectives are also rather varied – hackers gain a variety of optional shortcuts, and most missions give you two or three ways to deal with a problem, including a diplomatic path. Now would be a suitable time to bring up the game’s dialogue, which is without exception mental. I’m not sure whether it’s a translation issue or the script was just this mad to begin with, but NPCs seem to switch characters multiple times throughout any interaction – a stoic character that starts out your best friend may become incredibly aggressive for no reason, or regress into surfer lingo. That last part is not a joke. In all honesty this just adds to the surreal atmosphere, and whether it was intentional or not it’s certainly entertaining.

What is not entertaining is the way in which this game deals with death. I appreciate that there needs to be a penalty for failure, but this game is needlessly punitive and it very nearly soured me on the whole experience. Every time you die, there’s a chance you will gain a fatal injury – which vary from a minor to an enormous permanent stat decrease. Some of these are the equivalent of losing two or three whole character levels – and considering most people will finish the game at around lv25, this is not a small issue. There is a karma stat that influences the likelihood of these injuries occurring, but I never worked out what influenced it – it seemed to go up and down entirely randomly. A few early mistakes can forever cripple a character, and even with a VERY late game way of removing these injuries it feels like a very poorly thought out mechanic.

However, if you can put up with the rough edges, there’s definitely an intriguing game buried in amongst the madness. You might not love E.Y.E, but you will certainly remember it – and that’s more than can be said for some games with a hundred times its budget.

Mein persönliches Rating 10/10

E.Y.E. ist eines der innovativsten Spiele, dass ich seit Ewigkeiten gezockt habe. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Mischung aus Ego-Shooter und RPG mit einer unglaublichen Vielfalt an Optionen und Möglichkeiten. Es ist es ist also kein reiner "Tunnel-Shooter".

Grafik und Setting
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Angesiedelt in einer dystopischen Zukunft à la Blade Runner/Shadowrun/Omikron the Nomad Soul spielt man als eine Art Elite-Auftragsattentäter. Die Rüstungen und Waffen der Charakter sehen überzeugend gut aus. Nicht übertrieben, aber wirklich gut durchdacht und sehr unterschiedlich. Man spürt die Weite der Flächen und Szenarios beim Laufen, ohne dass es nervig wird größere Strecken zurückzulegen. Es sieht einfach genial aus!

Sound, Sprachausgabe und Interaktion
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Die Soundeffekte und die atmosphärische Musik, die hin und wieder eingespielt wird, passt stets zum aktuellen Geschehen. Ein Riesenpluspunkt (!) ist die eigene Sprache des Spiels. Durch Textfelder, wie in Point-&-Klick Adventuren erfährt man mehr über die Story und Missionen. Man kann den Spielverlauf selbstständig beeinflussen, in dem man z. B. eine bestimmte Zielperson eliminiert oder sie für Informationen am Leben lässt.

Konfigurationen und Skillung
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Ähnlich wie bei RPGs kann man die Skillung seines Charakters zu Beginn des Spiels festlegen und Attributspunkte verteilen. Im Laufe des Spiels steigt man mit Levels auf, so dass weitere Punkte vergeben werden können.
Man kann nicht nur verschiedene Waffen tragen, sondern auch Cyberimplantate nutzen und somit zusätzlich eine Art von "Magie" nutzen. Weiterhin gibt es auch noch "Hacking"-Fähigkeiten :) Man hackt eine Tür mit einem Virus und die Tür versucht mit einem Programm zurückzuschlagen :D Eine echt genial Idee!

Kritikpunkt
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Mein einziger Kritikpunkt ist, dass man sich über ein integriertes Tutorial mit Texten und Videos mit einem kleinen Bildausschnitt mit all den Tuning, Skill und Hacking-Eigenschaften vertraut machen muss. Ein Tutoriallevel wäre ganz hilfreich gewesen, da es einfach so unglaublich viele Einstellungsmöglichkeiten gibt. Man kann das Spiel jedoch trotzdem mit etwas Geduld und durch Learning by Doing in seinen Möglichkeiten erkunden.

Fazit
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E.Y.E. ist definitiv ein ganz anderes Shootergame. Sehr komplex und mit einer überzeugenden Atmosphäre.
Auf jeden Fall zuschlagen!