Cyberpunk 2077

This game has some stuff in it that is honestly very well-implemented. The writing isn't necessarily great, but it is good enough, and in tandem with the way that the NPC's look, move and feel it really does shine. I find myself caring about various, even non-important NPC, more than in most other games I've played. Voice acting is also fantastic (Keanu clearly isn't a voice actor, though) and the music is incredibly strong, among the best I've heard in a game. Graphics are great, gameplay is generally quite fun if a bit repetitive, and some other small details definitely make for some fun experiences. That's pretty much it, though. Immersion features are missing, bugs and glitches plague the game in a way I honestly haven't seen before in a triple-A title and almost nothing that was promised is present in the game. Biggest offenders that come to mind: -AI (there seems to be basically no AI at all outside of combat, actually, which is just insane for a game of this scale) -Police being even a little bit immersive (Worst police system I've seen in a game. In fact, San Andreas shines by comparison in regards to this and many other features, actually.) -Lifepaths having a deeper impact (they're almost entirely cosmetic, and even that isn't very well implemented) In summary, this game isn't complete trash like some say, but it represents one of the biggest lies in recent memory from a big gaming company. I would say that it is ruined by it's many bugs, performance issues, and presumably cut and missing features that are desperately needed to make this game anything other than the mostly generic, old-school action-RPG game that it currently is.

Quick TLDR: Just look up 'overpromise, sell, underdeliver Cyberpunk 2077' on YT to get an idea of why I may not like this game. Riddled to hell and back with bugs, lies about what the game would be, etc. This game was incredibly overhyped, promised to really change things up, just to release like every other AAA game we've seen before. What's incredibly sad is that this company had many example of other companies failing and what happens there, but they went full steam ahead on releasing a bad game. This game will always be inherently flawed due to being forced to be developed for last gen consoles that are going to be 8 years old this year. It seems like that was done to try and double dip as opposed to being for any good purpose. I'm glad it ran so well on last gen that sony had to just straight up take it off the playstation store. My own personal experience goes as follows: I have... 8GB VRAM 16GB RAM 3.2Ghz 8CPUs & had this game running on an SSD. My game would run incredibly poorly no matter what settings I tried to use and when I could tolerate that just to play, Cyberpunk would crash my ENTIRE computer. No other game I have does this to my set up. For what little bit that I managed to sit through and experience, the gameplay has the potential to be fun, but its marred by just sheer unplayability. I wish they'd just take this game down entirely and release what they talked about instead of this piece of trash. It will need extensive patching before it's in a good state and that 'good state' will not be anything that was promised. If graphics are your thing, I guess this game will be 5/5 for you.

The Soundtrack is phenomenal. The game looks great, mostly. What's clear is that an awful lot of the systems in the game are missing or broken. Wait on this title to see if things like AI, NPC pathing, animation fixes, and basic QOL things like key remapping get fixed or even added in the first place.

NOTE: I'm running on a high-end system with an RTX 3060ti & Ryzen 5 5600x. As of writing this review, I currently have 70 hours into this game and have completed the main story twice. I enjoyed what I played of it but after that I felt as if I had nothing to do and the game felt empty. The Good: - Strong story with a reasonably interesting plot and good cast although it falls apart in a lot of areas and it is evident there is missing content. - A beautiful world with a lot of detail and work gone into it. Although, water is terrible with RTX off - this should not be a standard thing we MUST have for water to look good in a game! - Sound in both music and radio broadcasts are excellent, sounds in the world is good but things like cars sound are terrible with incorrect gear-shifting, an odd oversight. The Bad & Ugly: - The bugs, now don't get me wrong... PC has it good when it comes to not having massive bugs BUT, the amount of times I was taken out of the immersion because of them was just way too many times. Small and big bugs occured in my playthroughs and they lowered my enjoyment of the game. Notably I did not experience any crashes in my 70 hours. - AI & NPC's are just awful as if they took no interest in them, they walk in circles, walk from one end of a street then turn around and rinse and repeat... we see little to no interactions with not just the player but the rest of the world... terrible decision. - The performance; I experienced some of the worst jumps in performance, I ran the game on max settings (RTX Off) and I got around 80-100FPS with lows in the 45-60's which should be unacceptable. I can understand a flat (80) but the game experienced massive drops and it was terrible. - The biggest and sadest part of this, MISSING CONTENT! Unfinished parts of the world, fake marketing, fake information about upgrading cars, getting new houses and the list goes on. Thank you for reading and CDPR, don't be sorry - be better!

The game looks amazing and I have no problem with performance. Just the movement of the main character is terrible. I feel like I'm playing a disabled person. Likewise, shooting and battle seem unnatural to me. Maybe for some space shooter, but a character like "V" moves like on drugs and the others jump ridiculously like rabbits. I apologize for the criticism, I know that there is a lot of work behind this project and congratulations on creating such an amazing city. But for now have stopped playing and will hope to enjoy this game in the future. Ps: The language setting cant be saved, it must be set each time on start again.