Cyberpunk 2077

Where do you even start with a review with this game. I guess I will just keep it short and to the point. This game is riddled with bugs. I do not think I have played a release game with as many bugs as I encountered in this release. The city can be extremely beautiful at times while other times it looks awful. The NPCs that are not important to the story look bad, like really really bad. The amount of recycled npcs is high and often you will see the same person talking to themselves because of this. I am lv 13 with about 5 hours into the game and I am one-shotting everyone with a small knife and have about 75 health kits on hand at any time to spam heal myself and there is no cooldown on healing. You can’t remap controls on pc. I can not say much about choices in this game but from what I can tell, killing vs nonlethal doesn't not matter as there is no wanted system or moral system. Oftentimes missions you can complete with stealth do nothing as at the end of the mission the story plays out as if you fought your way out of the place or the mission just ends with you taking a shortcut out. The leveling system is basically percentage buffs to stats. I came into this game with only ever watching one cinematic E3 trailer which actually spoils a good amount of the intro into the game which was disappointing playing through 2 hours knowing what is going to happen. This game is about as good as watch dogs legion is currently. I can not put all I want to say in this review but this is not a good game this is bad game. 2/10 P.S. Take all the time you can to create your character as there is no way to change any part of them after you leave the creation screen, hairstyle, beard, nothing can be changed.

As someone who did not care at all for the Witcher 3 I went into this game with very low expectations but was still dissapointed. I'll get the positives out of the way: - The story is ok. - Voice acting and animations (of story NPCs) is top-notch. - The city looks great. - The graphics and sound design (and music) are amazing accross the board. Now for the negatives: - The first set of issues I want to address is how absolutely dead the city is:. - The AI in this game is - no joke - the worst AI I have EVER seen in a game. - Everything in the open world runs on scripted paths. - Cars have no driving AI so they just stop if something is in their way. - Citizens of night city have 3 modes: walk, run, and duck. They will walk up and down the same sidewalk over and over again until you leave or fire a gun, in which case they will run about 10 feet away and duck down until you leave. - If you do manage to get some kind of wanted level, the police LITERALLY SPAWN BEHIND YOU BECASUE THERE IS NO DRIVING AI. - There is NO interactivity with the open world whatsoever (no mini games, side activities, etc) This is far from the immersive next generation of open world games CDPR has told us it would be. Beyond that: - Gunplay is awful - Driving is floaty and unresponsive. - Skill trees are mostly boring and a total waste - The cybernetic parts you can get are largely uninteresting or not useful. - The loot system is overly tedious. - The story is linear and lacks any real player choice. - The dialogue options are even more limited than Fallout 4. - Hacking is really not fun or useful most of the time. - Stealth is broken Every single feature of this game (besides the many cut out of the game - like brain dances) has been done MUCH better by other games that came out even 10-15 years ago. If A studio like Bethesda released this there would be hell to pay. Go buy RDR2 or something, it's a msterclass compared to this mess. Hell, even Sleeping Dogs is a much better game.

I just can't believe THIS is the result of 7 years of development, with such a great lore. I don't mind the bugs, they are not that bad on PC. I tried really hard but this game is just plain bad. - Deplorable combat. You need an entire magazine of headshots to get an enemy down... It's a tedious game of emptying entire magazines and restore health. A baseball bat does more than TWICE the DPS of an assault rifle. I ended up forgetting all the tactics and just rush them one by one with a baseball bat - that was by far the most efficient 'tactic'... - AI would make Fallout 4 raiders look like a masterpiece in designing villains skills. - This world is graphically nice... But you can't interact with anything. All you got is a shop here and there. No random NPC interaction at all. Only groups of thugs looking copy-pasted with only a skin change. - Unintuitive for pretty much everything but the very basics. All the hacking and camera overheat stuff just feel like a tedious, unnecessary complication. - The car driving is comically bad - The characters acting is bad most of the time, - It does not feel at all like a Cyberpunk world. The 1980's vibe that they tried to reproduce is just totally off. - They let plain text lore explanations, just for you, a bit all over the place. Imagine a movie where they have to show a long written explanation, in plain text, every once in a while instead of integrating it to the world itself, in dialogues etc. This world is so devoid of any interaction that we get the quests DIRECTLY BY PHONE... The side quests are not even integrated to this dull world. You don't come across quests, they just send them to you. Like in Saints Row 3 but without the fun. Maybe it changes later in the game with the arrival of the celebrity guy, but so far... It's just sad. What a waste... Such an immense job on graphics, on this huge city, full of objects, details and designs... But all you do is watch around and shoot at things.

I've put over twenty hours into this game and even though I could get it run fairly well on my pc, it's still was riddled with bugs. There are too many to name here, but go to youtube to see how incredibly buggy this game is. This game is an unfinished mess. Outside of quests there is nothing to do. Most of the vendors are there for appearance and none of them sell you anything unique so there is no point in visiting one over another. In a city that is supposed to be full of sex, drugs and vice there are only two prostitutes you can interact with outside of quests. The strip clubs and bars are all illusions that add nothing to the game since you can't do anything in them. There are no casinos to gamble in, no minigames to occupy your time. There is nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, outside of quests. Night city is completely lifeless and boring. There are no random enemies either, just enemies that respawn at certain locations so you always know where they are. The ai controlling peds and cars is not even on par with ten year old games. Police spawn right next to you no matter where you are. Ped driven cars run on rails and control horribly and either don't turn enough or turn so much that it feels like you are on ice. The prices for buying cars is so high and unbalanced that it is laughable. The lifepaths are meaningless outside of the ten minute intro and a few dialog options in the game. The perks are mostly stat boosts instead of unique abilities that add variety. The user interface and menus feels like it was made by ten different people who never talked to each other as there seems to be no coherent reason for why a certain button does something. One minute C closes the dialog the next it's ESC or X. Nothing makes sense. The crafting menu is horrible and doesn't even tell you how many of a certain item you have so you are making items blindly. Everything feels rushed and slapped together with little thought. CDPR can't be trusted anymore.

I'm not gonna talk about the gazilion bugs or performance issues these things will eventually get fixed. At least i hope they will. Now lets talk about the problems. Yes Night city is indeed massive and beautiful but that's it. It's like a book with a beautiful cover and when you open it, it is empty inside. There is no real interaction with the environment or the people. The 3 life paths don't seem to have any real impact besides some dialogue options. The AI is brain dead. No tactics whatsoever, which makes all the fights basically the same. If you want a harder difficulty the enemies just become bullet sponges. Ah and you can leave the car in the middle of the road and all the others will just line up behind it and do nothing. Also why do the cops need to just spawn behind you? If that was case then crime should not exist in night city, cops are teleporters. The crafting system is broken. You cannot keep up with the upgrades if you wanna keep your equipment, unless you grind like never before and dismantle the drops. Why no side activities to sit back and relax? I think we supposed to just walk around and shoot stuff and that's it. I could go on about the driving or the supposed rpg system but this is long enough. The positives are the story and the characters but they can't carry this whole thing. I was one of the fools that preordered the game but at least now i know, i learned my lesson. I hope this company did not become the new Bethesta. You know, the buggy release and an upcoming online version? It really needed more time and work because if that's the final product they had in mind then they shouldn't have over-hyped this game.