Cyberpunk 2077

Lies, greed, and deception. Words that could be used to describe the corporate world within CD Projekt Red's new game, Cyberpunk 2077. Nobody could've guessed that in the real world, the corporate anti-hero of the gaming industry would fall to the same wickedness that their lead man, Johnny Silverhand, so fervently detests.

The game features a great atmosphere in a dense and stunnning city. Continuous bugs will pull you out of immersion. Most of them are funny, others will force you to reload the game. So, in two hours, quest characters stuck themselves in wall or teleported. Random objets exploded around. Characters lips didn't move while they were talking. Ballgagged characters could talk. Objets like phones or guns suddenly disapeared from characters while they were still performing animations. I could see pedestrians walking while peeing. Concerning PC controls, the game feels like a bad 2000 console port. You can't assign actions properly to the keys, really strange choices like double tap on keyboard to dodge or crouch to speek dialogues. AI is verry basic. To conclude, if you do not consider pricing or marketing practices or technical problems, this game is probably one of the best in a long time.

Not even Keanu can justify an Alpha for 60€. But where the tecnical problems can be fixed with GB of patches, can't say the same with the TONS of features completely cut off and/or missing from the final release, like the RPG. This is not an RPG, this is not what you kept promising us in the last 10 years, this is not even a good Open World Adventure game. This is just the last sad story in a media that already have plenty of this in it.

Audiovisually the game is excellet, if a bit lifeless, and the writing is generally at least passable. A lot of effort has clearly gone into the afore mentioned as well as the cutscenes and story bits, but it seems that all that happend at the expense of everything else. And while there are the things like lacking AI all around the place and lacing interactivity, most sorely that loss of effort and focus is felt in the gameplay department. The game is not an RPG, make no mistake thinking it is one. It's a storydriven open world looter shooter adventure that relies so much in its selfappointed narrative excellence that it completely forgets that games made to be played first and foremost. And that manifests in the horrible loot system, weak character systems and other halfdeveloped features like crafting. It's almost like the games had an identity crisis at some point, but didn't do anything about it and thus left somewhere in between with all of its faults. You spend the entire game killing tons of people through witless mechanisms - though some of them understandable since it at some point wanted to be an RPG - that make the player compare digist or armor and damage values, thinking about if 5% damage/armor increments in the perk trees are worth anything, figuring about the lack of enemy AI, finding out the whole thing is completely out of balance with some very easy to achieve power builds already early on. And of course watching heavy cutscenes while suffering through the longwinded main missions of the quite short main story (that feels out of place with it's length and finality if looking against how much there is to do in the world around it). I found that the small gigs from the fixers were the best part of the game. Simple, yes, not very narrative heavy, but they felt like that's what the sort of edgerunner like the protagonist would do. There is some potential in the game, but it needs quite a bit of work still and some heavy redesigning in places.

This is not the game I was expecting at all. It got hyped way too much throughout the last few years and in the end it's a big letdown. The world is big but it feels empty. There's tons of the same type of missions "go here and kill those guys" again and again like copy&paste. Where are the unique missions with their own backgroundstory ? The story overall is okay but nothing great. The game has a lot of bugs and glitches even if they are not gamebreaking they are very annoying. This game could have needed atleast one more year of development and even then I doubt it would have been the great masterpiece most of us were expecting. They told us decisions would matter but in the end you are basically forced to answer one kind of way in most dialogues. There's not really a choice if you want to go the good,the evil or the crazy route. The three different origins don't really matter because after 30 minutes they all lead to the same story. The game should not have been released in it's current state. The graphics are nice and the story is somewhat enganging. There's a ton of weapons to choose from and there's a lot of lot overall.