Cyberpunk 2077

I was skeptical of 2077 from the start, but it takes a lot of effort to mess up this badly. The core gameplay is decent enough, shooting stuff, driving around, it feels fine, but nothing spectacular. The world design is great, but unfortunately it's all weighed down by so, so many issues. This is, mind you, after a bunch of patches. The graphics (high/ultra mix, fwiw) can be spot on, or extremely lacking depending on area, wall textures are often glitchy, clipping is common. It very much jumps from one extreme to the other. Animations are fine, but they sometimes get stuck leading to static NPC's who are actively talking, but not moving. I've had several instances of the in game text messages not displaying correctly, the HUD showing phone calls that are not active, spoken dialogue between characters overlapping and playing all at once, leading to conversations between 2 people I literally could not understand. In one quest, the quest giver phoned me saying I was abandoning the mission before I technically started it. The stealth sucks, enemies have that old lightswitch hivemind AI, where they are either entirely oblivious to your presence, or are all on high alert and know where you are immediately. Sometimes they can detect you through solid objects. The weapons dont really work well enough for stealth, since the minute you fire, even with a silencer, it usually leads to detection. A few hours in, the game decided that my upright position was now my crouch position, meaning I was always walking at crouching speed no matter if I was actually crouched. Even more fun, actually crouching made it even slower, so if I wanted to stay behind cover and move, it was at about 1/4th of my normal walking speed (which is already slow). I also couldn't sprint. Every time I try to play, something goes wrong. It's quite literally unplayable. I want to like this game, but it won't let me play it.

1.Bad/non existent RPG elemtns 2.Bad/cheap action elements 3.Lack of content 4.Good soundtrack 5.Good MC voice 6.Good gunplay Absolutely not worth full price.

before buying watch videos of game play and reviews to help make your purchasing decision Good visually impressive and immersive Bad many things not functioning at AAA level very linear and short story

I decided that year after the release with the newest patch 1.3 available might be a good moment to start the experience and I did start it, twice. At first try the game crashed after 5 seconds into the corpo prologue (right after character creation), the second try it crashed in 2 minutes after character creation. Here's an idea: save the game after the character is confirmed so that people dont have to redo it 2 times in a row? Well, I unistalled it after 10 minutes of "fun" experience, see you in another year, hopefully it will allow me to play it then - I will consider a new score.

I try to stay short, I,m not special and the flaws of this game are well known. I re-bought the game thinking that in 6 months something may be improved, and I'm so disappointed... Tons of bugs in the major plots (I run patch 1.3), driving is nearly impossible, most important the GDR component is partial at best, try to play stealth, if you don't believe me and police... oh and police, ah police. Also, when you have the level to buy an objet you don't have eddies, and on the opposite, most of the object you can buy are level limited (try leg upgrades...) and most importand you never need a single upgrade. But let's face reality, this game is nothig special at most. The plot is nothing special also. I hope CDPR is still beliving in this game. I like the X saga and so I'm used to games that become playable after launch. But CDPR is not Egosoft, they are focalizing on bug fixing instead of improve the game itself that frankly speaching sucks. I wish CDPR better luck with next game. In the current state this game is a GTA Vice City but ugly.