I'm not sure what the game was like at launch, and I'm not sure what people were expecting. Fair enough it might have been a broken mess filled with broken promises.

For me though, at a heavily discounted price it was "FarCry: Vampires". I enjoyed wandering the town, collecting loot, and killing both humans and vampires. The story was 'okay', yeah the cutscenes looked unfinished, but whatever, I wasn't really playing the game for the story.

For what it's worth I enjoyed my time with game. I had one crash to desktop in nearly 40 hours and the odd minor 'bug' with an enemy not animating correctly, but it was pretty few and far between. I also played the entire game 'Offline' so I can't comment on Online / Co-op.

If you can pick this up for ~$10-$15 USD and enjoy running around maps finding all the 'collectables' you could do worse.

I completed the game as Jacob and suspect I'll come back and play this again in the future with another character.

I honestly can't figure out why this game has such poor ratings. I love it. I've played well over 20 hours of it now. The story is thoughtful and creative. The game play is fun and challenging. The art design is beautiful and dark. This game seems under appreciated and that makes me feel sad for the people who put all the hard work into designing it. Please consider giving it a try if you've been thinking about playing it. It's really fun!

If you want to play online, you have to go the character screen, click the connect button, and spam enter button for you to accept agreement for online play.