Short Version: Ethical issues surround the last-gen console version releases, but this PC version is quite good with reservations and comes recommended, provided you have the hardware to meet the recommended specs, which are de facto minimum requirements. This review is based on 1.04. Long Version: After completing the game and as many of the major sidequest chains as I could find, my verdict is that Cyberpunk is the best spiritual child of Deus Ex and Judge Dredd I've ever played. Beginning with performance, it runs worse than expected, bounded by my Intel i5 8500 CPU. My RTX 2060 does a good job on non-RT and DLSS on at ultra, going between 40% and 80% use. In practice, the recommended specs CDPR gives are closer to the minimum needed for the game to run well at the moment, since my definition of well is 60fps. Patches may improve things. On to bugs. It took me about 45 hours to complete the game. I had no crashes but did encounter many glitches I would consider mild or moderate in severity. There were two or three T-poses, for example. Interface elements like weapon stat pop-ups would remain onscreen until reloading occasionally. Frequent autosaves help with small issues like this. So does having an SSD so the game loads in under five seconds. As pre-release press has discussed, the game is shorter than Witcher 3 in a way. The main plot alone is over quickly (I bet it could be rushed in 15 hours, not the 20 CDPR has suggested), but there are a lot of sidequest chains sprinkled throughout the game. Each of these is at least an hour long if not more and tend to center on one or two characters. I loved them as well as the main plot, featuring Keanu Reeves. Yes, he really CAN act. It was hard for me to believe growing up with the Matrix as I did, but he turns in a remarkable performance here. Bugfixes and performance improvements will yield a 5* in my eyes. There are no downsides that cannot be fixed with patches.
