Cyberpunk 2077

Not the game that was promised by cdpr. Waited until now to post, hoping they would add all the missing content but no luck. Vaporware sadly.

This is a cyberpunk GTA clone in which the cops never chase you in vehicles. There are so many obvious features that were dropped. But this seems like the biggest, and most necessary for the core gameplay of driving around a city as a criminal. Cops have vehicles. They often appear standing around them, the vehicles parked nearby. You can steal them and the cops nearby get mad, but you just drive away and nothing pursues you. They have hoverships that you can find parked in a hanger if you break in, but you can't get in those or fly. In the beginning of the game there's a lot of dialog about the Max-Tac cops that come after the worst criminals. It seemed fairly obvious that this was forshadowing--if you get enough heat, these are the baddies you face. They nixed that. If you commit a crime, you have a heat meter, similar to GTA. Cops just spawn on foot 5 feet behind you. Get in a car and drive two blocks and you're safe. It's so unfinished. I heard that it was unfinished, that features were dropped. But... I assumed those were side-features. This game is missing core gameplay.

Needless to say this game is a technical disaster; bugs are everywhere, npcs are braindead, the driving doesn't work right, quests don't work right, physics don't work right, the map don't look right and the lighting don't feel tight - need I go on? These are all known issues with the game and anyone not deluded can attest to this; the game is broken. Naturally I wouldn't want to beat a dead horse. What I do want to focus on, is the incredible lack of self awareness on display. It feels like CD Project was terrified of leaving anyone unsatisfied with this game so they vowed to do eveything. Huge open world -bigger and better than ever before-? check. Customizable protaginst? check. Multiple backstories? check. Stealth gameplay? check. Looting and leveling? check. Rpg elemtns? check. Action setpieces? check. Side quests? check. Even more side quests? check. Driving? check. Character and vehicle cutomisation? check. Car customisation, improved AI, NPC love interests, NPCs with daily lives, a wanted system, a deep narrative, mission design as good as the witcher 3, more and more and more - it never ends. These are all things that were said to be featured at some point or another and then some. This was to be CD Project's magum opus, the gamest game of them all; yet Night city is more akin to that one carpet I used to have than an actual living breathing world. Who thought tackling every single game award at once would be a good idea? And with about 240 employees no less. That's about what Rockstar has per branch and you can now see why their games are nowhere near this ambitious. In the end CDP met their ridiculously varied criteria with varying success, yet underdelivered in every single way. This game is fundamentally flawed at it's core because it lacks direction, concrete goals and a solid foundation. You can iron out the bugs and fix the engine and fill in the content gaps with DLC, but this game will never not be underwhelming.

Its just sad what happend here. No further words needed. I doubt that DLC in future will get the game to its potential.

A terrible buggy mess of a game and with 1.1 CDPR heavily censored this supposedly adult rated game. Stay away.