Cyberpunk 2077

Now, this is a new one for me. I'd usually rate this 4/5 stars, stating how while it does a lot and can be extremely impressive, it bit off more than it could chew and tries too many things which leads to it underdelivering on half its systems. What works is an extremely impressive immersive sim about being a random no-gooder in a cyberpunk city that ends up in a middle of a few weird plots. The city in particular bears mention because while the simulation flip-flops between perfect and inexistent, the visual splendor cannot be overstated and really sets the bar for this type of setting. Plus, overall the places are well done, varied, and provide good atmosphere. Other amazing elements include much of the writing and - in particular - the voice acting, which elevates many otherwise pedestrian scenes to a very high level of emotional impact. So yeah, it's not a 5/5, but it is a really really good game for a 15-20 hour romp through the city and maybe another few hours spent on a few interesting side quests even if many of the less prominent ones openly show how they are just padding. Like I said, not 5/5, but easily 4/5. Then... come the bugs. Oh wow. Between constant t-poses, randomly disappearing NPCs / items / cars / doors / whatever, the parade of weird AI behavior about NPCs walking into/through walls, cars randomly crashing into things, NPCs being stuck in a short loop, weird combat AI, inexistent stealth-combat AI, weird combat animations that constantly bug out, the game looks and feels *extremely* unfinished to play. Plus on top of that, the performance is terrible even on good PCs. Sure the game is visually impressive, but it's not halfway impressive enough to warrant how it runs. So yeah, I'd say "Wait". Hard wait, too. Get the GOTY edition in a year or two.

Up until the release date, the game was hyped up like crazy and the promotional material from CDPR was showing something quite different from what the game is actually like. It really pains me to put 3 stars after I played The Witcher 3 and absolutely loved it, to then come to this and feel kinda meh about it. I bought The Witcher 3 twice, once on Steam and again on GOG because it was the $h%&. I can't phathom the fact that CDPR was actively stopping reviewers from getting PS4/Xbox One versions and/or publishing gameplay videos recorded on those platforms. Even though the PC version is better in comparison, still I can't turn a blind eye to shady practices like this and more light needs to be shed on this topic. CDPR, you disappointed us when we actually not only had faith in you as a result of TW3, we also liked you for all of the positive interaction with the community and it seems you turned into another Ubisoft which is really sad.

This game needs a lot of work. The biggest issue by far (as we are all here on PC) is the stability of the game. I can play for about 1.5 hours before the game crashes. It does this every single time I play. There hasn't been a game session that has lasted longer than 3 hours for me (and that was REALLY laggy. To the point where I could barely walk straight in game). Then the display driver will inevitably crash, and I'll have to close the game, retart it, and try again. This by itself wouldn't be as bad as it is but the game ALSO crashes the display drivers about 4/5 times on the logo/warning screen upon startup. This is on top of the normal (ha! "Normal") crashes to desktop that occur once every 5-6 hours or so that don't involve the drivers taking a dump. Add to that the bugs. Then add the weird UI choices (vehicles for sale only have pictures in messages, not in the journal where the missions to buy them are, mousing over a target shows EITHER the info OR options for hacking, having to sell/drop useless food items one by one, etc etc). The gameplay loop itself is fun, and the story is fine. Not all of it is great (some characters are written poorly, some options in conversations make no sense for the character, etc), but a majority of the game underneith all the terribleness is a lot of fun. The saddest part is that in about 6 months, this game MIGHT be worth playing. This is a very disappointing release, and I didn't actually have my expectations set too high. Avoid for now at all costs! It will make your hair turn grey.

It is fine. It's not great. The world design is absolutely beautiful and thats probably the best thing in this game. This could be very successful cyberpunk walking simulator. Characters and vehicles look good. Visual customization aspect of everything like your character and cars is absolutely nonexistnet. You can't have robotic arm or leg like half of the NPC's have? Can't customize cars? Can't customize your own character in game? Can't buy another apartment in a large city or somehow customize the one I already have? World AI is just really dull, they walk, they talk, they run a little when threatened and... that's all. They dont even have some interesting or funny personal info on them when you scan them, like in Watch Dogs. Car AI is terrible, period. Story is good so far, I am not finished yet, but don't expect this to be RPG, there is none RP here. Main missions are pretty straightforward, story driven adventure. Side missions are being showed up your a*s by phone calls and they are so far based all on the same principe - infiltrate, retrieve/kill, escape. The only decision you are making in this game is whether you are playing Terminator or Dishonored style. Combat feels quite fine, lot of weapons, stealth possibilities are good, distractions through hacks which could do more, there is variety of skills to choose and it seems, like you need a little bit of everything. I had experienced several bugs of enemies being alerted inifinitely long, seeing me through wall etc. This game has literally no cover system. Absolutely none, best you can do is crouch and hide behind object and pray that the object is high enough, to not get headshoted or not be spotted by an enemy. And crouch toggle with C does not work everytime, even in combat, this is probably caused by "skip dialog" shortcut interfering with it. This game has definitely a lot of space for improvement. Buy it for full price only if you want to support CD Projekt Red, othervise wait for discount.

The story is somewhat interesting and the dialouge between the characters is very cool and well-written most of the time, but this is really not a fun game.