THE GAMEE.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy
THE PREMISEE.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, stylised as E.Ψ.Ǝ: Divine Cybermancy, is an indie action/role-playing first-person shooter video game created by the 12-person French development team Streum On Studio, and built using Valve Corporation's Source engine. It is a cyberpunk themed game based on the role-playing board game "A.V.A." developed by Streum On Studio in 1998. The game spent about two years in development before being on Steam.
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy is set in a dystopian future following a complex background of events. The human race has become involved in an interplanetary conflict stemming from a mysterious race as well as an unexplained psionic entity known as the meta-streumonic force, that has turned civilizations against each other and threatens the universe.
The player takes the role of an E.Y.E. member, a secretive and elite army of psi-cybernetic warrior monks founded, funded and ruled by a group of megacorporations named Secreta Secretorum. With access to advanced technology, each member is infused with cybernetics, psionic training, and DNA acquired from the only known member of the mysterious advanced civilization to ever be captured and killed.
The player wakes up after a fight in which your teammates are killed, with the Secreta Secretorum is attempting a coup against the all-powerful Federation, a consortium of corporations, several worlds and planets who comprise the current human government and rule them with an iron fist.
To complicate matters, E.Y.E is composed of two groups, the Jian Shang Di and the Culter Dei, to which you belong, both having their own leaders and members. Brothers in the past, they are currently in the middle of an unofficial and secret civil war. By the Year 15, this struggle has calmed down because their mutual fight against the Federation has intensified. However, in the shadows, Commander Rimanah plots to destabilize and destroy the Jians by weakening their power base or make them worthless in the eyes of Secreta Secretorum. He created a special task force for this goal, where the player is one of its members.
THE CONSENSUS"But you'll never play anything like it ever again. Take that for what you will, I'm going to give this game a recommendation on the basis of how unique and out there it is. I couldn't get into it personally since I'm not a very "Experimenty" kind of guy, but I could never in good conscience thumb down a game that is this creative. Besides, the general consensus is that you will love this game if you can get into it."
"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 you 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Tried to hack a door. Door hacked me back. 10/10"
Going to buy this game next week for 10 bucks off Steam.
