The good
- story is well written
- killing enemies is satisfying
- it's not a stealth game, but sneak approach is valid in most of the missions

The bad
- game has 3 years and there are still problems with graphic that makes game unplayable for some, or bug that corrupts all save files
- grenades have physic of a ping-pong ball and are quite rare to obtain
- enemy AI is not the best
- collectibles are gated behind bit of grind to unlock map locations
- not possible to replay whole chapter, just separate maps with tougher enemies
- there are invisible walls left after elevator opens doors that need to be "jumped over"

Conclusion:
I really have problem with this game. It was barely playable for the first 8h, crashing every 10 - 15 min. I decided I will try to fix it or I'm dropping it - game get so corrupted I could not load any save. It worked after many tries of re-loading few auto-saves I had (never thought of making manual saves...) and since then game worked flawlessly. Without me doing anything, I just reloaded "proper" save file. Still it leaves sore aftertaste, as not everyone may be lucky enough to even make the game work past loading screen. But it is solid shooter with good story and nice graphic / mechanics.

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Story:

After crazy doc from 1st game is killed we end in the submarine with half of our organs gone (result of the final fight). Player barely survives and goes back to killing Nazi straight away! Nazi beaten up US and bombed Manhattan (so little twist around US dropping bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). We move between different parts of the US, gathering resistance fighters and planning attack on the general Engel - woman who took place of crazy doc after the events of the 1st game. Story may not be deep or full of meaning, but it is well written, without glaring plot holes or other problems. Characters are interesting and likable.

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Gameplay:

More of the same basically. FPS with some upgrades and optionally bit of stealth.

We can use standard single weapon / dual wield, or sneak approach. It's still FPS game so don't expect any advanced mechanics like in Thief or Dishonored. Just approach enemy from behind and click button to silently kill. Weapons are rather standard (pistols, rifles, shotguns, electric weapons), there are no supernatural powers in game. Some abilities are unlocked later in game - double jump (kind of), breaking walls and crawling thought really narrow spaces.

Traits are again upgraded by using them. So killing with grenades gives more grenades capacity, sneak kills make commanders rise alarm slower etc. Which is more involving than just getting exp for killing enemies. Sadly enemy AI was tuned to use grenades rarely and grenades are scare for player, so I had to grind a bit to max out ability to use them. There is no inventory, simple weapon upgrades with upgrade kits, collectible journals or newspapers to find in the world.

Difference between this and previous game is that it's not possible to re-play previous chapter after game is beaten from chapter selection menu. Player need to kill commanders, pick up their enigma cards and then use them to decode positions of the uber-commanders on the war map. More cards are needed to unlock everything than we can get through one playthrough, so it requires tiny bit of grind. When commander position is decrypted it's possible to use war table to teleport to certain map. It doesn't start the original mission though, instead it's map with tougher enemies and objective to "kill the commander". So it's really repetitive and uninteresting.

Enemies have really basic AI, and they will stand in each other way of fire while shouting "get out of the way!". They will run around having problem to find a cover, not use grenades to force player to move,or try to walk around us for ambush. I started to play on hard and was killed in few shots, so I did not see all of this. But switching to easy to grab some achievements later on shown how bad their behavior is.

There is also weird problem of elevator doors. Animation that they open is there, player can see what's inside the next room but it's not possible to just walk past. It will make character stuck in the "doors". I had to "jump over" open elevator doors each time I had to use it.

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Technicalities:

Graphic - ⭐️⭐⭐ - graphic is nice and detailed, lip sync and animations are good
Music - ⭐️⭐☆ - music is thematic and voice acting is good
Bugs - ⭐️☆☆ - I already described how buggy this game can be to the point of breaking the game save files

The good
- game shows the story from 4 different perspectives

The bad
- terrible UI made for gamepad and not adjusted for K+M
- biggest enemy of the chase sequences is truly awful camera
- one of the campaigns is long boss fight
- really grindy to get abilities
- awful QTEs
- graphic didn't age well
- weapons are not interesting
- zombie game where we fight hordes of regular soldiers 90% of time
- AI is so bad I'd be afraid to play with it in single player mode
- shallow story
- immortal enemies that keep chasing you around the map so you can't stand for 2s to think what to do next

Conclusion:
This game is playable in co-op but it's also truly awful. Bad PC port, bad mechanic, bad UI, bad enemy encounters. There is literally nothing appealing in this game. I was told that this game nearly killed the whole franchise. And now I know why.

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Story:

Terrorists kill the president and release the zombie virus over the US city! So obviously our characters need to go for the rescue! Developers shown the story from 4 different perspectives that works well in showing "what other characters did to help when they were off-screen in the campaign". But this is only game gimmick. Otherwise story is shallow, predictable and boring. With boring characters and dumb antagonists.

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Gameplay:

It even pains me to describe it. First of all game is bad console port. Obviously menus you use with a gamepad should work well with a keyboard? Wrong. There is no normal inventory and items rotate like on a dial, there are way too many pressings of the button to do anything, and then when player tries to remove something from the inventory - need to use the mouse, as it's not possible to move selection left - right with the keyboard to confirm you want to get rid of some junk. Yay!

Next is awful camera that killed me more times than the enemies. Why not rotate camera 180 degrees during a chase sequence, just to make it more like a movie?? Or make camera stuck in some weird position (that makes walking around awful) as devs wanted to focus view on something I may be entirely not interested in? When player crawls through narrow spaces camera is perfectly positioned to see my ass. Yes, that's what I want to see, not what is ahead of me.

Even moving around in this game is bad. Characters run barely faster than you walk, cover system is awful (character will not just stick to the wall and allow to aim. They need to stand next to the wall with RMB pressed, press space to hide behind the wall, and then ((still pressing RMB)) lean out with WSAD keys and aim). There are cinematic (and totally useless) slides over the obstacles which means player slides above the table instead of opening the drawer.

Enemies don't just give exp, they drop chess-like figures that need to be picked up. It requires enormous amount of exp to unlock anything. And then there are only 3 abilities you can have active at a time. Enemies are also so dumb they are light-years behind enemies from Half Life 2. Game released 8 years earlier. I'd understand making zombies dumb but in this game we mostly fight trained soldiers and mercenaries. They are mutated with the virus but they are supposed to keep their intelligence.

There are QTEs for everything, for enemy attacks, for counter, for mid-cutscene moments, for controlling the vehicles. And they are awful, they sometimes give 1s prompt that lead to immediate death on miss. Mash button to climb a rope, to climb a platform, to duck on a moving train cart (anyone has flashbacks from the Hugo games?? I do). I'm surprised they didn't add QTEs to climb ladders.

Weapons are unlocked when we progress through the campaign but are not interesting or feel like an improvement. If we decide we don't like certain weapon and stop to pick ammo to not use inventory space (which is limited) - game will start to shower us with this specific ammo as we don't have any. There is melee system but it's just bad, clunky and slow.

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Technicalities:

Graphic - ⭐️⭐☆ - It looks dated and don't have any interesting style. Animations are stiff and lip sync is bad.
Music - ⭐️☆☆ - I don't even remember this game having music which is not a good thing. Voice acting is also at best average
Bugs - ⭐️⭐⭐ - I didn't encourage any and it's best thing that can be told about this game

The good
- introduction of new weapons and powers

The bad
- really repetitive
- game feels needlessly long, as few levels need to be beaten in one session
- enemies that can't be killed
- game tries to be "deep"
- some enemies need to be hit in specific body part to be killed

Conclusion:
Feels a bit like tedious grind more than an entertainment. A bit like rogue-lite game. Levels are re-used infinitely and enemies re-spawn so there is no precise planning of the next step. Sad to say I gave up on the last 2 bundles of levels, as I could not be bothered to replay the same few levels over and over again. Also looks like you need to keep game in background for 2,5h to go through the ending. I'd ALT+F4 game after 5 min of waiting. In the v.1 version it was 8h of unskippable staring on the progress bar... Friggin hell

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Story:

No real story here. Developers put a bit of backstory of some depressed guy who plays a game as an escape mechanisms, but it's shallow and uninteresting. And feels forced tbh.

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Gameplay:

Mix of Super Hot principle with rogue-lite. Time flies only when we move (or do action like pick up weapon or reload weapon). Which in combination with hand-crafted levels made Super Hot to be weird mix of puzzle and action game.

Mind Control Delete throws it out of the window by introducing bundles of random levels. Changing the game into rogue-lite battle royale. Enemies spawn endlessly so it's not possible to clear the map. We need to constantly run around as enemy may spawn behind us with game over shot in the back. Instead of having being OHK by the enemies per level we are given 2 lives per bundle of levels. Which means that if we beat 6 levels and get hit twice on last one - sorry, you need to re-play the bundle again. Same if we'd decide to exit the game. It does make the game longer but doing it in a lazy way.

There are some upgrades that can be unlocked - one more life, charge on enemies etc. They stay with us through the bundle. In between the levels of the bundle we get random temporary abilities - like piercing projectiles, starting the level with a katana, ricocheting shots on headshots, ability to throw object with more force etc. Which means we can either be lucky and get abilities we like, or unlucky and have things we dislike.

People who like rogue-lite game will be happy. I was really disappointed in a way this game "evolved". I'm glad I get it for free as upgrade for owners of the original.

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Technicalities:

Graphic - ⭐️⭐☆ - Nothing changed from the previous game. And models still have weird rag-doll effects.
Music - ⭐️⭐☆ - Music is really basic but environmental sounds work really well with what is happening on the screen, giving it certain pace. Nearly like in a music beat game.
Bugs - ⭐️⭐⭐ - I didn't encourage any.

The good
- clearly marked points of no return
- skill points are not drip-given and give feeling of progression
- good variety of enemies
- enjoyable hack and slash especially with basic upgrades already unlocked
- no enemy scaling

The bad
- main character dialogues feel cringe
- grindy if we want to unlock all weapons
- abundance of gems used to upgrade weapons makes it feel like a chore to move through piles of trash to find something better than we have already
- standard mini map is tiny and bigger version takes too much screen space to be used while playing
- NPCs animation are stiff and sometimes unnatural, lip sync with what is said is bad half of the time
- guns feel quite under powered in comparison to melee weapons

Conclusion:
Good slasher but without anything extraordinary or innovative.

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Story:

Continuation from the previous game. Player needs to help restore body of a girl that was used in some demonic ritual. Nothing deep or really interesting. There are few simple and generic side quests, none of the characters are written well (just average) and nothing in the story surprises.

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Gameplay:

We kill hordes of enemies with either melee or ranged weapons. Although ranged felt inferior. Some powers for crowd control (spikes that immobilize and chi blast that drop enemies on the ground). Enemies drop gems to upgrade weapons, med kits, chi crystals, ammo. Bosses can drop new weapons.

Leveling up weapons is tedious and grindy, as nothing simply highlights gems that are better than what we currently have. On the other hand leveling up the abilities is proper, there is no grind required to get skill points. They are given evenly just for playing the game. There are various upgrades from melee bonus, elemental bonus, better survivability or power upgrades.

At first I tried to "clean" the maps but I soon realized that levels are re-used over and over again, so there is no point in doing that. At the end of the game I was using vanish power to hide from the enemies and just rush between points of interest. Mini map has it's problems as it rotates with us and mini version feels too small. While big map is semi-transparent and takes nearly half of the screen, so hard to see enemies like that.

There is no inventory per se, as we have only couple of weapons to chose from (there may be more if we focus on looking for bosses and do side mission for weapon reward). But because we're showered with upgrade gems (and it's not possible to decide which rarity we want to auto pick-up) - upgrades menu is cluttered with junk. That can be either sold (but money can't be used to buy anything useful), or used for crafting (3 white upgrades gives 1 random blue, 3 blue to one gold etc.).

Game is fast paced and quite brainless. It uses checkpoint system, so not possible to save anytime. And sometimes we're thrown bit back in the story if we forgot that last checkpoint was at the start of the mission (we need to approach checkpoint statue to save the game). It means there is no going back to previous save if the one we use is somewhat broken.

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Technicalities:

Graphic - ⭐️⭐☆ - Graphic is detailed but characters have problem with animations and lip sync
Music - ⭐️⭐☆ - Fits to the game but nothing extraordinary. Voice acting is also at best average
Bugs - ⭐️⭐⭐ - Didn't encourage any