Cyberpunk 2077

This game is unfinished in more ways than just bugs. Driving AI is nonexistent, some quests are borderline sequence breaking on character relations, Night City doesn't even feel like a city. Graphics are good but optimization is straight up broken in some cases (like Ryzen CPUs). It's really disheartening to know that C2077 was in development for like 8 years, that CDPR overworked their team into oblivion and the game is still in this sorry state.

When I'm able to play the game it's pretty fun and I legitimately like it. When being the key word. I do not know what causes it but the game will just randomly crash, and that assuming I can get the game to start at all. The game just randomly decides if it's gonna get past the CDPR logo or just have the screen flick black and crash hard while the music still plays. I have updated my GPU drivers, changed graphic settings but nothing changes. It doesn't even matter if I have everything on ultra or low. The only thing that changes is the frame rate. Even the in game crashes are random. I'll be running down the street, buying something, or in a dialogue cut scene, the crash knows no prejudice and will pop up whenever it pleases. I need to stress that I really do enjoy the game but it's stability issues are making it almost unplayable at this point. As such, I cannot recommend that you pick up the game at this time.

Game feels unfinished, early-access even. Random T-pose NPCs, junky controls, some random events bugged out completely, stupid telephone calls during some tense stealth mission (and the call breaks your control, so you cannot take anybody down because F doesn't work), cars appearing out of nowhere just flying aroung the Night City. The list can go on and on. And I am only in the beginning of the game! I still believe that patches will fix the game eventually, but CDPR should've postponed the launch again instead of releasing this buggy thing. There won't be the second first impression anymore.

To begin, let me give you the setting. I'm playing on a 5 year old Asus ROG laptop so yes, the laptop is old and I'm playing on the "Low" graphics setting, which puts everyhing at minimum, but I did get the latest GeForce drivers. I've only played for about two and a half hours, which were mostly character creation, going through the menus to check all the settings and going through the very start of the game. Without giving any spoilers, about 10 minutes into the game, there is kind of an in-game cinematic sequence, where the character is standing in front of a mirror. For me, this was an armless torso with legs and what was obviously the most important part to render at that moment... the dude's d**k, just flailing around... even though a few seconds later his arms spawned in and he also got some clothing (don't ask me why it was necessary to render the body that you're not going to see anyway under the clothing). That's fine. I have a laugh and keep on playing. Another 10 minutes later and I'm in a four-part tutorial, of which only the first two parts are mandatory. First part goes ok. Second part fails to finish loading all the assets... walls are missing, objects relevant to the quest are missing... I load the last autosave, which 'fixes' the problem... Now, here's the thing. I want to complete all four part of the tutorial. I start part three (stealth), which tells me to go to a window, so I do that. Next it tells me to press the scroll wheel on the mouse to 'tap' some targets. I try this multiple times, over multiple reloads, both while in stealth and out of stealth, both while holding 'Tab' and without. I even tried re-mapping the key... nope... Not asking for a refund, but I'm not wasting my limited leisure time trying to figure out how to 'fix' the next bug 'flying' my way on a (supposedly) fully released game... I'll wait for fixes before updating the review... P.S. Had to google weapon/fists holstering... it's not in the 'Controls' (tap Alt twice)

In its current state, this game is a 5/10 with the potential of becoming the best game ever. I have no doubt CDPR can fix the bugs and glitches, they've proven it in the past. What I doubt however is that they can fix the biggest problem for me, but also its biggest strength : this game tries to be everything at once. It's kind of an RPG but not really, you can play it as an FPS, a looter-shooter, or even an immersive/stealth game like Deus Ex, or a GTA-like. And the problem with that, is that none of those mechanics and playstyles are polished enough, and since the game forces you down certain paths anyway, your choices, background and character build are often irrelevant, or even handicapping. It feels like it has been designed by people who had no clear idea of what they wanted to do, and somehow they managed to make eveyrhing so bad, it looks like it has been done by amateurs who never made a game before. How did they manage to make a bad crafting system AGAIN ? A bad AI ? Such bad driving ? Bad hacking system ? Confusing UI ? Bad shooting mechanics, bad melee, buggy stealth, stores selling only a handfull of clothes ( and almost the same ones no matter the store, even if you go to a classy corpo store they'll sell hobo street clothes ), unbalanced difficulty with guns shooting through walls making everything trivial, cops spawning behind you no matter where you are, NPCs not reacting to shootings, or going crazy when a car slightly hits a wall, etc. The list is too long to spend time on it. They'll have to fix a LOT of things to make it right, on top of fixing the console versions, making the DLCs, and then the multiplayer game... I sure don't want to be working at CDPR right now. And I hope the developers will at least be well compensated for all their efforts.