Cyberpunk 2077

This game plays like most Ubisoft titles: you wander around the a big, detailed world, and get into combat. Combat is reasonably fun but nothing special. Dialogue, choices, and the story do not matter. If you're looking for a game ike New Vegas, The Witcher 3, or other RPG classics, you won't find that here. The game is also really buggy which does not help. Without the bugs, I would have given it a 3/5 instead of a 2/5.

The story is rather short. Shorter than I thought it would be. I was around 40 hours into the game when I realized I am almost through. I did a lot of side missions and contracts.. But most of them are very repetitive. Get/Hack/Kill x. Nothing I want to dilute the plot with. After I finished the main plot and the last savegame was reloaded, I felt an emptiness. The world felt empty. There is not much to do in Night City. Actually there is nothing to do, besides the quests/contracts and shooting thugs wherever blue icons appear on the map. The whole main plot feels rushed. Just dissappointing. Then there are technical issues, or more like questionable design choices, like the whole AI. Whether it is the driving AI, which is incapable of reacting to obstacles (drive around them? not necessary, just let the AI honk until it disappears when the player is not looking at it... lol), or the police which just spawns around you. They will never chase you, you will never see them chase others. All they do is idling on certain spots or kill you, if you do not behave. And CDPR said all citizens have their own full day and night cycle.. No.. they do not. Quite the reverse! Citizens, whether in cars or on foot, get despawned immediately if you turn yourself around 360°. The prologue is so thrilling, you get totally hyped for the game. The first presentation of the Trauma Team.. The police killing thugs at the intersection.. It looks nice.. But after that you will never see stuff like that happen in the world. It was just scripted for the prologue.. I have seen the trauma team helping a citizen. I was like "Oh nice, lets see how they patch that citizen up" but the animation was lame and nothing happened.. The team and citizen just despawned in front of me after a short time.. And then there are bugs.. many of them. Since CDPR decided to do cetain things the way they did, I do not think stuff like this will ever be "fixed".

The world is beautiful, well crafted for most part, as a personal touch I would have loved more verticality to the game. Storytelling is the real disappointment here, from the useless "start path" to the absolutely consequenceless decision, it is a shame, because it looks like a glorified version of a Bethesda games. But I'm still hopefull, I'm going to play it again after the January and February patch.

Thanks to the Devs!! Although many people are hating this game at the moment, I love it! I'm getting tired of seeing people slating this game so I thought I'd write about my own experience. Played around 50hrs now, and I haven't really even touched the main story much. I've spent a hell of a long time checking out the scenery and exploring. The verticality of everything is built on a huge scale. I just died after jumping off what i thought was a ground floor bridge, only to discover I had jumped about 50m down to the ground of another level. I can honestly say I have never played a game where its hard to find the ground floor, brilliant! The huge amount of detail in this game is astonishing, I'm only just discovering all the little perks for each playstyle and how they change everything. Theres loads to do! Each new area brings different aspects to the game and you can really see that the devs have put hrs into everything. It's difficult to tell if assets have been duplicated as everything looks so different. So the bugs...... Who cares!! THEY'LL GET FIXED!! And some of them are hilarious! My favourite one so far is bouncing of a window and being hurled 200m (without dying) Was bloody hilarious!! The worst I've had is a subtitle pops up now and again. I don't care! When I first played Skyrim the main game was corrupted for exploring, had to start a new game after 70+hrs. Now thats a bug! I can understand peoples frustration, I'd probably be mad if I had bought it on console but I didn't. It's been awesome on PC so far and if it takes a while to iron out the glitches so be it. Let's not forget the witcher 3 had a few bugs too on launch yet it still won multiple game of the year awards and is one of the best games of all time. If cyberpunk was made by the devs that made the witcher 3 then dont worry give them a chance to make it right!! Happy Christmas All!!

Well... I wrote this review to give a fair warning before buying this game. There has been a lot of marketing and hype around this game. This raised the bar of expectations about this game. Is it a bad game? No. Does it deliver what has been promised? No. Is the game finished? No. Far from it. It is glitchy and the open world feels empty. + Great setting + Good graphics + Storytelling is great (main storyline) - Jesus walks on water in Night City! NPC / cars are VERY glitchy. - Side jobs are a few variants on the "fetch and/or kill". Gets boring really fast - Combat AI is non-existent. - Combat is glitchy (thrown knifes dissapear), enemies get stuck (easy kills) - City feels empty. Very little interaction with NPC's, most buildings are inaccessible. - Cops AI is non-existent. Materialise right behind you, won't chase you (also: see remark about combat AI) - Call your car to your location: Mr. Scott beams your car down right next to you. - Driving is like first drinking a full bottle of whisky, then get behind the steering wheel. Not good. In my opinion CDPR should have focused on the main storyline and build / expand on the open world for future games in this setting. This would have given them the possibilities to prioritise on fixing the engine, AI, basic systems. Now we got a mixed bag of everything.