Cyberpunk 2077

A world where your choices matter. A world where style matters. A world where the way you play the game matters. A dark and gritty, immersive open world that ebbs and flows around you, living and breathing, changing on it's own and reacting to the choices you make. Endless replayability with no single playthrough able to be the same. No, that's not Cyberpunk 2077. Though it seems as though it was supposed to be. The bones of that game exist within it as evidenced by many shards, dead ends, and world areas that all suggest this game was supposed to be an actual RPG. There is no RPG in Cyberpunk, no choices matter, there are tiny flavor differences based on different options that you can choose, but nothing that has any actual consequences. As soon as you realize that you can seemingly anhialate all members of a gang on sight and suffer no reprecussions either from that area's fixer, or the gang itself; the appeal of doing anything dies. There are no choices within the main story that make much if any significant difference to how it progresses, there are no branching paths, instead, you are railroaded into a one size fits all story. In terms of gameplay, sure there are bugs, crashes, etc. But every system seems barebones minimum possible to be functional. -The crafting system is hilariously immersion breaking and game breakingly strong if you want. -Hacking is an interesting take on spellcasting where the concept is decent but the implementation is boring, repetative, and requires no player skill or intelligence as the stat requirement may suggest. -Gunplay is fine, sound design is fine, visuals are fine despite insane popin at close distances of everything. -Combat AI is D tier at best, they use no interesting tactics, or unique strategies to beat you, different factions don't seem to function differently from any other faction or use unique tools, weapons or hacks. -Police are a joke. I'm out of room now for more, but the list goes on.

This is the most non-RPG RPG I have ever played

TLDR Version : ( I am comparing this game with W3, since the missions structures are quite similiar ) Pros : - Main story - Looks good ( 80% of the scenes and areas ) Cons : - Side missions are good, but the quantity of it isn't as much as W3 in my opinion. - Gigs are the worst, it's basically budget version of Bounties in W3. - V shadows, reflections, and animations are terrible in current state of the game. - Blue police gigs ( misc, white question marks in W3 ) don't really make sense to me, why would i bother them in the first place ? unlike Geralt a monster hunter, clearing a monster nest is part of his identity. - Gunfight and Melee feel unpolished, especially when it comes to melee. It's almost as bad as certain post apocalyptic game. - Bugs & Glitches . In my opinion, bugs and glitches are the least of my problems with the game. The mission structures, world, gameplay play a bigger part for me. I remember playing the vanilla Witcher 3 and it completely blew my mind away. The world, characters, OST, gameplay, W3 has its flaws but the good outweights the bad at that time. I can't say the same for this game, it's just average at this stage. Cyberpunk 2077 has potentials and i want to believe in CDPR in making it right again. Will revivist Night City again once every DLCs, expansions, and patches are out.

+ Great music, nice city design, high quality of "cutscenes", fun shooting, good vehicle handling. - Unfinished areas, missing AI for traffic and cops, missing physics for vehicles driven by NPC or empty vehicles and bad hitboxes, poor dialogues, seems like lot of quests were cut, tons of bugs, complicated navigation for no reason, many optimilization tricks that you see everywhere if you're playing on "recommended requirements" on 1080p.

I would give this game around a 4 star review on the gameplay as I find it quite fun, but with the serious bugs still in the game 8 months after release, I gotta give 2 stars. I once spent 45 mintues on a mission playing stealth, only to beat the boss before I was suppose to which resulted in a game breaking bug unless I started back on a save file at the beginning of the level. After update 1.3, I feel there are more bugs than ever. Try aiming at pedestrians with your gun, then turning around and looking back. They all disapear! Not to mention still no car/character customization that was promised. I'd recommend checking back in 6 more months.