Life paths have no meaningful impact on the game, they only add flavour dialog this has a major impact on the replaybility of the game. The AI is bare bones, in combat enemies will just sit there while you take your sweet time head shooting them, police spawn out of the thin air and don't react to gun fire from gangs shooting over their heads. theirs’s no police car chases either. No bounty hunters, max-tac coming after you which was promised. Where is the branching quests that where promised by CD PROJEKT RED . Crafting Is imbalanced and unrewarding. Upgrading weapons only offer a small increase in damage and becomes ridiculously expensive. This feature was meant to allow the player to keep their favourite guns but is not even remotely balanced for this. Hacking is overpowered which is not helped by the dumb AI and the minigame itself becomes very tedious. The perk tree is all over the place. some give 50% extra headshot damage while others give 3% extra damage. a lot of the icons don't match what the perk provides. it is full of padding. Driving is a mess, the POV when driving first person is messed up you can barely see over the steering wheel. breaking is almost none existent. you are blinded by daylight when driving first person, this is more common in the Badlands. The arm augmentations which where advertised as game changing like gorilla arms allowing you force open doors is no longer a feature though the item description is still there. Their is way too much loot for example, guns can be found with different levels, skins, rarity this end up making the inventory a nightmare to organise. It would have made more sense to find the gun with a standard skin and allow the player customise it ourselves. Leveled guns and armour means you are constanly changing guns I think I spent most of my time going through my inventory. Bugs everywhere, The more you play you begin to relise just how hollow the game is.
I think the developers dropped the ball big time, the campaign missions are very bland, there are no interesting characters or set pieces. The hero missions are a bore, you walk your hero around a large complex and slowly shot things. where's the interesting dialog or interactions? The hero is underutilised the points you put into him are simple things like higher attack or health, why can't you give him abilities that help your army or make him semi powerful by himself to encourage reply. He doesn't even join your army. The swarm missions are dull, we could of been given different objectives with a small force etc. You just spam units no strategy required. Games like Starcraft 2, warcraft, spellforce, command & conquer deliver a much more immersive story which this game sadly lacks. To sum up the campaign disappoints in every way possible, it's only worth buying for the survival mode.
