Hello,
I would like to beg you for help in finding one game I've been playing a long time ago and I cannot for anything remember the name of it.
Let me describe it to you:
It was an RPG game, kind of hack and slash, which took place in some kind of fantasy world where there were monsters and technology. You start on a hill, waking up from being unconsious(?), looking at a burning city attacked by zombies. Your first weapon is a stick (if I remember correctly, it was a big stick). You go to the city and see people with muskets fighting zombies and help them in that. Your first goal is to reach some kind of hidden laboratory (which is small), which in the future will be a place like city in diablo (you have some scientists down there that give you quests related to your current map and sell you things like guns, armors, and you can teleport there during the mission).
At the very beginning, you can buy simple muskets and pistols, while later you have miniguns. I also remember that you can buy rings boosting your abilities (they are expensive).
It was linear with some branching. The maps consisted of the burning city streets, laboratory, swamps, desert, outdoors snow scientific complex (?). At the very end of the map, I think you were shown a count of remaining enemies on it (??).
I will add that graphics were quite impressive (at least for me) at the time of release.
I think the title had something to do with "ether". I am unsure hovewer.
EDIT: more info to that game. Single player campaign was a solo adventure. You did not have a team.
On the first map, there was a very dangerous enemy - a tentacle in the ground. It had high damage and you could not dodge it easily. I remember that's the reason I resorted to creating a gun-fighting character. I also remember that there were bows in this game, but also swords (I'm not sure about the swords however, like just 99% sure). At one point of the game, on a desert map, you come across a puzzle which involves a field wall. There is a bow lying nearby and you have to destroy a pot on the other side of that impenatrable power wall (it's extremely easy).
Also, (I think) at the end of the first map, you meet a group of people with muskets fighting a huge monster. You of course help them and they help you.