The game has a cool setting, but the mechanics are too weird. It's very sad that it was messed up but missing to implement some basic, but very important features for enjoying the gameplay. Instead, the game has cool optics, a spooky Silent Hill like city and fog, but is annoying the player with lacking several things. Now it's for free, ok, it's still not a game I'd like to play too long.

Setting/ scenario
Very nice with many details like street signs, lamps, ATMs, etc. Even today it's looking good. The enemy design is a bit boring.

Combat/ weapons
Why losing your weapon upon entering a building? Of course the weapon is gone afterwards, what a boring and outdated thing. The fights are clunky, the enemies feel much more powerful, but not in a challenging way, more in a way your character feels like a clumsy ballon-man with a pizza in one hand and a broken weapon in the other hand, trying to balance on a thin line while eating the pizza.

Flashlight
The flashlight is draining the battery, you have to wait for an annoying amount of time to use it again, so outdated as well. Caring for the flashlight power in a dark game, really? I sometimes had to wait for the damn flashlight to replenish, this is a terrible anti-feature. Please remove these crappy "searching for batteries" / "auto-refreshing flashlight" mechanics finally, at least in dark games.

Objectives/ Journal/ Map
Did I miss the journal with my next target? Why not adding at least some icons on the strange map to let the player know which places he still has to visit in order to finish a task? At least a journal should be a standard feature nowadays.

Finally, the sequel is much better!