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.

An amazingly atmospheric and deeply complex game for those that can look past it's flaws. It's one of my all time favorites, but I'll be the first to admit it's not for everyone.

You owe it to yourself to try the demo. The first level is one of the best so it should tell you if this game is for you or not.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy has been coded by crazy people and is in its own way ♥♥♥♥ing fantastic once you accept that you just are not going to understand what's going on and that you have a katana that blocks bullets somehow and that it's almost as if a really wasted DM made a Shadowrun campaign then someone coded it while taking 15 minute breaks to stretch their legs and bang grams of coke.

E.Y.E is a linear RPG with a collection of nice ideas but flawed executions. You can play alone or cooperatively with up to three other friends, taking on quests for the Culter clan. The gameplay is a mix of Deus Ex and Fallout 3, where you can take on some quests in multiple ways - alternate entrances, barging in through the front door, hacking certain access points to finish your objective. It's nice in co-op when one character can focus on building a particular skill (hacking was mine, for example) and another can spend points on other attributes to better round out the team.

The biggest problem this game has is its low-budget trappings and short campaign length. While I was surprised how good the gunplay felt, don't expect voice acting, quality translation, a fleshed out story and characters etc. It's a few notches above a bare-bones mod running on Source. E.Y.E is also rather brief, about 10 hours or so with nothing to keep you playing afterward.

This game is essentially Deus Ex but ten times f**king weirder and I love it for that, within the first 20 minutes you kill your mentor but you are not his murderer, fight a creature of the Metastreumonic-force, shoot a bandit with a shotgun from a mile away, and talk to people who may or may not even exist.

If the story is too confusing for you, I'll provide a rundown: You are part of an organization whose primary goal is to rescue space turtles. You travel the galaxy rescuing space turtles. That is all you need to know.

What E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy boils down to is that if you like bad translations, flawed gameplay, but an overall brilliant vision, you will enjoy the game.

E.Y.E. is essentially a cyberpunk Deus Ex set in the Warhammer 40k setting. It's French and the translation is awful, but there is a community mod to fix that. The gameplay is standard first-person shooter fare, with RPG elements such as stats, critical hits and misses (the words '♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! Ultra-failed attack! will become very familiar to you), and cyberpunk elements such as psionics and body augmentation. The graphics are standard Source mod fare (the game runs on the Source engine), but the soundtrack and overall sound design is good and the maps are some of the biggest the engine can support, and the overall atmosphere is top-notch, grim and dark and grimy, very reminiscent of Alien and Blade Runner.

The gameplay is a little repetitive and the story is incomprehensible at points, but the main charm to E.Y.E. is all of the things it attempts to do. There are hacking minigames where you can kill or take control of any enemy (except the Neo-streumonic force), even turrets and gunships - but what they boil down to is spamming commands while watching a bar fill up. Stealth gameplay is attempted, with cloaking devices and line of sight - but because of engine limitations, all of the NPCs know where you are at all times and simply choose to ignore you until you trigger them. The list goes on and it is essentially pointless to go through everything the game tries to do but does not succeed at. The leveling mechanics are flawed, the unlocking mechanics even worse, playing at higher difficulties without min-maxing like crazy is the definition of tedium, but the guns feel good to shoot, the melee weapons feel good to use, the game looks good, and it has a wild charm to it that, in my opinion, overrides all of the negatives to it.

You should play E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy because of all it attempts to do; even though it doesn't succeed on many fronts, the sheer scope of its endeavor will be more than enough to satisfy.

This is a very fun game, which is reminiscent of quite a few of my favorite games. In my opinion, it incorporates a lot of my favorite aspects of first person gaming. From Crysis' ground shaking jumps to Fallout's exploding headshots, this is not only visually appealing but extremely satisfying.
Right away it challenges you and doesn't pretend that this is your first time ever playing a videogame, and because of that fact, it is very easy to forget you are.
This is one of the few ``grinders'' I am happy to continue playing. None of that ``find a rock, turn it into gravel, turn that gravel into cement, turn that cement into a block, turn 100 blocks into a wall, then jump the wall to increase your jump skill'' crap.
Money well spent.