Shadowrun Chronicles: INFECTED Director's Cut

[u] Warning: [/u] Not like the Shadowrun games from HBS, more like a free to play (M)MO(RP)G, [spoiler] like Secret World Legends, only with a weaker engine [/spoiler] but with only a small amount of role-play and a withering community. [b] Shadowrun Chronicles Boston Lockdown & INFECTED does... [/b] - not have a save/load-funktion, but you can farm a mission as long as you like, if the host still needs to complete the quest. - not allow the player to solve a quest with charisma, only by sheer force (guns, tech, magic). - not have a forgiving mission-architecture - especially in the add-on, but you may retry a mission after you have memorized the spwan locations and exploit that knowledge in the following run with AoE-spam into the fog of war. - not have real side-quests, but it does offer optional quests and repeatable challenges - with high difficulty and a meager reward - after you have finished the Boston story-line. - not have npc-companions with a developing personality or unique perks - only weak henchmen, but you may invite other players to join you in a shadowrun. - not offer a crafting system or unique loot, looted items are random (mostly consumables and vanity items) and the gathering is dependent on special skills, but you can farm missions for items as long as one does not complete the objective. - not offer a wide variety of skills - only one skill-tree per weapon (the player may choose two weapons, henchmen have only one per mission) and some passives (mostly gathering skills and life/armor boni), but you may farm to gain enough Karma (exp) and Nuyen (money) to max out all skills and to buy all weapons and cyberware (implants). - not have the graphics of a AAA-title or a full voice-over, but offers the charme of the Shadowrun-Universe, sadly with little to explore or to collect, like you would expect of an MMORPG. - not support convenient team-play; it lacks voice chat and safety measures to keep an invited player from going all Leeroy Jenkins (berserk) and override the hosts decision, thus making the promise to base the story development upon the players decisions at the end of the Boston story-line irrelevant. - not need a player to be very skilled, if you get your alter ego into cover and keep an eye on the skill-cool-down the Boston campaign is rather easy. The INFECTED add-on does test the player; you might want to read a walkthrough or start a mission multiple times to memorize the spawn locations - but other than more vicious enemies and slightly larger maps, the missions remain the same. So the question remains: Should I pay for a game, that has less content than some free to play games? If you like turn-based games [spoiler] like XCOM [/spoiler] and adore the Shadowrun-Universe so much, that you are willing to endure a lifeless grind with a shallow story, the answer is yes - in most other cases you might save your 10 bucks for a game that's more entertaining for an even longer time.