Cyberpunk 2077

Like the title I would have been fine with the delays if CDPR just had announced that they would delay it a year in april till april 21'. That would hopefully had meant that the devs didn't have to crunch that much and they would have had a whole other year to finish it, if they needed more, then okay. fine. It just isn't finished yet. I love the lore and the idea of the game, just not there yet.

For this review I will try to disregard any hype and discuss my experience on PC. Technical: -Played on 10750H/2070 1080P RT ultra/DLSS Quality, frame rates are tolerable -Noticed many of the glitches/bugs mentioned in other reviews, not game breaking but immersion breaking -lighting and graphics are phenomenal, best RT implementation so far -keyboard/mouse controls are janky and can't remap important ones EXTREMELY BAD: only double tap dodge and holster, crouch toggle doesn't work reliably Gameplay: This is where I was disappointed, there isn't anything terrible per se, but there isn't really anything that great either. -overall story is good, but lacks character development seen in games like Witcher 3, there are only a few instances where you feel a connection with NPCs. For me this was due to a few causes: 1. constant interruptions during key points missions with texts and calls. 2. bugs causing dialogs to be skipped or have no audio. 3. interactions with NPCs seem to happen in isolated bubbles and have little or no impact on the rest of the world. -Key game systems are very shallow: 1. Crime/Police is a joke 2. side quests/gigs don't impact rest of world and feel like they are only there for XP farming. 3. Reputation/street cred is just a gate to purchase items 4. Your look or dress has no impact on play. 5. The world is beautiful but void of interactions, very few NPCs and ones that are there share the same cookie cutter responses and animations, nothing new to look forward to seeing after 5 minutes. 6. Netrunning is reduced one simple minigame despite being a major part of canon. 7. Cars make no difference to gameplay 8. Overall just not an RPG feel, it feels like a bunch of stuff got thrown on the map for filler but there isn't any depth or interplay to it. 9. Very few choices actually matter in the game Take GTA1 crime and driving, Outer Worlds gameplay, and AC Odyssey quests and maps and combine with killer graphics and you get CP 2077.

The game is fantastic, not perfect, but still fantastic. It is probably some of the best writing I have seen in a video game and the game overall is just well made. One thing I do have to say is that you should not go into the game expecting it to be like RDR2 or GTAV, instead expect it to be like that of the Witcher 3. The game will be far more enjoyable if you do. However, this game needs some more polishing to be done. I know I don't have the best pc rig, but I should not have to run the game on the lowest settings to to even just reach 40 fps. Bugs happen frequently, and it tends to ruin the game's immersion (although none of them have been game breaking, at least for me). Also the ai can be really inconsistent, with citizen npcs having shallow reactions, cops spawning out of nowhere, and enemies not reacting to being shot. Fortunately, most of these gripes can be fixed with patches and updates, and once it is, I will have no problem giving the game 5 stars. (I know this is a review is for pc, but that console release was just atrocious)

The 45 min gameplay video from 2 years ago had more gameplay mechanics than this ...kind of ....beta

CDPR really showed their true colors with this release.