Cyberpunk 2077

In some aspects its amazing, but unfortunately these aspects are very shortlived. Quests can be fantastic, but they're never at the level of Witcher 2, 3 or Thronebreaker. All optimization and bug issues aside (which to be honest is about 15-20% of the game) the game is not nearly as tightly written as their previous titles. I'll give you the most blatant example, just coming out of Act 1, you JUST have a life and death moment with a certain character. You then exit the building your in, get in your car and suddenly get smashed into by a psycho AI car, no biggie, sounds interesting. Only for your V to then react calmly, asking the person WHO WAS JUST TRYING TO KILL YOU if they saw that you just saw. Are you seriously telling me no one in CDPR thought this was a glaring inconsistency STRAIGHT OUT OF THE PROLOGUE? Literally the first thing that happens is completely inconsistent with the tone of what immediately preceded it. Gameplay wise its meh, I enjoy the shooting but I don't love it. Its very very bullet spongey which makes me feel like I'm playing a worse off Borderlands, and its very loot filled which gives off Deus Ex Mankind divided vibes, only 99% of stuff is trash. The bit thats REALLY grinding my gears though is the AI. Fixing something like this isn't possible, because there's nothing to fix - the AI isn't broken, its not there at all. Why in 2077 would police chase you ON FOOT rather than getting into their cars? How do they suddenly spawn behind you after you commit a crime despite you being in the middle of nowhere completely alone? Why do the NPCs not only all look exactly the same but do exactly the same thing, which is absolutely nothing, when interacted with? I watched a guy walk up to a chinese food stand, only to pull out a pizza FROM HIS POCKET. There's so much more to talk about in terms of whats wrong with this game but I don't have enough characters left to do it. This game simply isn't good enough in its current state.

Pre-ordered, installed on 7 December. Playing (ha) on a Ryzen 5, Samsung SSD T7 and AMD RX 5700 *drivers updated today Believe me, I regret having to post this review as I am a big CDPR homer and longtime GoG user BUT at its current state, the game is unplayable. Had 15 crashes to desktop in barely 20 minutes of play, audio glitching, NPCs not moving. Happy to change my review once I can get to at least 30 (10 would be a good start) minutes of uninterrupted playtime. Right now, a complete mess.

Currently, the game is bad. CDPR outright lied in their marketing campaign, multiple times on multiple things. The "out when it's ready" is the biggest one. It is not ready. It plays like a buggy clone of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs everywhere. Optimisation and performance is terrible. Controls are clunky, the physics are all over the place. There might be a good story there, characters seem interesting. But I can't tell since all I see is floating items and I'm constantly being shot into space when driving my car. I do not recommend, wait for a discount, maybe they'll fix some of it by then.

The world itself is jaw dropping. Unfortunately just about every other system in the game outside of art, writing & music/audio are unacceptably shallow in a deep "RPG" from CD Projekt Red. NPC's seem to have only 2 states -- walking around aimlessly, and when you bump into someone, everyone in a 5 mile radius hits the deck or runs for their lives. That's about it. The wanted system in this game is also atrocious. GTA 3 had a more complex police interaction system than this, sadly. Combat & weapons are a ton of fun. Each weapon is meticulously modeled and animated, and they all feel & sound great to use. However, stealth and hacking are a total waste of time. None of the abilities or interactions with the world are interesting, and all it does is pad out an enemy encounter by making it take 10x as long to clear. Unfortunately, if you had dreams of becoming a netrunner like I did, there's very little here to entice you longer than 20 minutes. Side quests and gigs are unfathomably boring. I remember side quests in The Witcher as some of the best writing & quest design in the industry. Unfortunately, side quests here feel like they borrowed from the MMO formula. Instead of a handful of meaningful side quest that take unexpected turns or tell engaging stories, we're given 300 points of interest that involve a bunch of enemies to kill and a few crates to loot. And how do you meet these notorious fixers? Let's just have them call you every 5 minutes as a floating head on your screen. Thankfully I haven't experienced a single performance issue, but I know the majority of people have been. Running everything on Ultra without RTX at 1080p. Again -- the game itself is absolutely stunning. No other open world holds a candle to Night City. But much like the corporations in Night City, it is simply a facade that tries to hide the fact that it is a shallow husk the deeper you look. Hurts to say it, but CDPR bit off WAY more than they could chew here.

Ждал надеялся и верил, защищал киберпанк на старте, в итоге нож в спину, "спасибо" вам огромное! больше никогда не буду иметь с вами дело