My first civ game and still the best one.
If this game didn't have this many bugs, I would call this my game of the year. Looking at pure gameplay and story, I would say this game is absolutely great and I love it. However for a game that has been in development for atleast four years I feel like there should be no reason for this game to have this many bugs. When I finally finished downloading 58 GB after 2 days (My country has bad internet), I finally started up the game only to be dissappointed by the fact that the game crashed immediately after clicking play. So I decided to "Check game integrity" and it ended up downloading 18 GB all over again.... Really? Luckily after that my game started playing for the first time. Now after 22 hours of gameplay I have not once encountered any game crashes whatsoever. So I guess I am lucky. I get a relatively low framerate playing this game (Around 35 - 50 fps). Not unplayable but a little dissappointing still. It's nothing like Watch Dogs which had huge frame drops that made me want to punch something. The cars AI is ridiculous, the police system is also pretty screwed and my audio sometimes goes out of sync in some cutscenes. Car handling also leaves a lot to be desired. With all that said I am still enjoying the world, the atmosphere and the story. I am only giving it 3 stars because I feel like CDPR could have easily avoided most of these issues. Hopefully they will fix the bugs as quickly as possible.
If you do not like FMV Phone/Interactive story (Or whatever they are called) games then you wont enjoy this game at all. The story is good. Not groundbreaking but it was good to me. I haven't played a lot of Interactive phone games but the gameplay was pretty nice to me. It is like one review says, there is a false sense of free will but what do you expect? It is a game just like any other. None of them has true free will in terms of story progression. The fact that this game does really good to immitate real life phones, apps and websites, gives it an amazing experience in my opinion.
This is a good game with a nice story and atmosphere, however it suffers from some really irritating bugs. Sometimes if you want to continue playing from where you left off then the game will continue but it will stay "paused" at that point, but there is absolutely no way to resume the game. The only way you can get past this is by restarting that entire chapter. This issue has been there since 2014 when 2033 Redux was released and it has never been looked at by the devs, so I don't think they will ever fix it. But to be fair this bug only happens sometimes and not always. Another bug is the graphical bugs. Somewhere in the middle of the game, the game will suddenly get random freezes and then eventually the game will crash to the desktop. This is fixed (for me) by disabling advanced PhysX and tessellation. When you play the game for the first time the game will also sometimes crash to desktop at certain points in the beginning. This happens only once each time at that specific point of the game. Last but not least, frame drops. They occur rarely, but they are there. I have an i7-6700, 16 gb ram and a gtx 1070ti, so this is really not to be expected from this game. Other than that, the game is pretty fun and the story is great. I really want to give a full 5 stars, but the bugs just irritated me way to much.
This game has a really good story until the end. The story falls straight to the ground at the end and I am sure the developers could have made the end much better than this.
