It starts like Blood and looks like Hexen 2, but it’s neither. You have a stealth system, with a full fledged visibility and noise meter which I haven’t seen in ages. And an inventory system. There’s also money, with multiple traders, and experience, with skills and multiple upgrades. The loot is fair. If an enemy has shotgut, it will drop shotgun once killed. At this point, I’d like to say it plays like a Deus Ex, but honestly I don’t remember how Deus Ex plays.
You cannot save freely. Monsters respawn, but I couldn’t figure out when. Not when you rest, or die. When you die, you don’t need to pick up your corpse to recover stuff, but you do get a curse every time, lowering your stats. And if you get cursed three times, you need to complete a miniquest to remove the curse: do 5 headshots, stealthly kill 3 enemies, or something like that.
The start is quite brutal, until you get the lever action rifle. It holds more bullets than revolver, and unlike it is actually able to deliver headshots. Also, ammo is plentiful, since it’s the same as the revolver one.
