It will leave you foaming at the mouth.
This is more of a review for 2.0 than the actual DLC, but seeing as it's required to play the DLC I think it's fair to treat it as a feature. While CP77 was far from perfect before, it had a pretty addicting gameplay loop, complimented by an engaging class building system and a decent difficulty curve. The only catch was that is was somewhat limiting with it's potential, with a tendency to push players towards either a Hacker God, Ninja Master or Bullet Sponge build with little synergy or room to maneuver between them. However, nobody who stuck with CP77 long enough to properly engage with these systems saw that as a major flaw, so it baffles me that CDPR saw fit not only to revamp these systems, but to simplify, homogenize and flat out nerf them in order to appeal to a broader range of playstyles. They succeeded, you're no longer limited to a handful of god-like builds, instead you now have a wide range of mediocre builds, none of which are that fun to play. This is the type of thing I would expect them to do in the first post-release update to try and stop the reviews from tanking, not years after the game's release after people have learned to appreciate the game for what it is, 2.0 was a massive middle finger to those people. The DLC is about on par with other similar expansion-type DLC, by which I mean the kind you would see in Fallout 4, it doesn't hold a candle to The Witcher 3's expansions.
This game isn't impressive in any way, but the serious tone mixed with the janky graphics make for a pretty humorous experience. And for what GOG is charging there are worse games out there.
Do not buy PlayWay games on GOG, they will remove them for no reason and deny future updates or refunds to existing owners, as evidenced by House Flipper.
Not the most popular game in the series but getting it as a DRM free copy at this price is an absolute steal, since it's definitely not lacking content.
The DLC cars have lower quality deformation than the vanilla ones. Also they have weird design choices that the game wasn't really programmed for, like intact tail lights which are always lit and never get damaged as they should because the vanilla cars don't have them. As for the cosmetics... yeah who cares, 1 star..
The DLC cars have lower quality deformation than the vanilla ones. Also they have weird design choices that the game wasn't really programmed for, like intact tail lights which are always lit and never get damaged as they should because the vanilla cars don't have them. As for the cosmetics... yeah who cares, 1 star.
Had a more positive review written but I've done some brooding and I think this needs an update. GOOD: - Graphics are very crisp, no framerate cap so it works very well on high refresh rate monitors, and will run on pretty much any post-DX10 GPU without breaking a sweat. - Great physics, both the car deformation and the driving. - Sound is fantastic, minus the music. - Proper manual and clutch simulation (sorry if you're American). - Base game car lineup is good, not many of them but they're quite varied and pretty well balanced. BAD: - Track variety is the exact opposite. It has many tracks but most are bland, poorly laid out and samey. - The crashes feel pretty "doughy" at times and the damage you deal is very inconsistent. - Menu music is trash, race music is ok but you can't hear it 'cause of the engine. - Bland and repetitive campaign, even for a closed track racing game. - No way to get the backer car on GOG, no way to get the console exclusive car on PC, Bugbear in general has a history of treating it's backers like trash. Lastly, they committed what is probably the worst type of sin they could have for a game like this: They botched the derby mode, it has 3 variants and all of them bad: - Last Man Standing, has you driving around in circles waiting for your opponents to kill eachother, - Deathmatch, has you abusing the reset function to rack up score as quickly as possible. - Tournament, also relies on abusing the reset to rack up score, except this time it also throws a broken combo system into the mix along with randomized arenas, some of which are way too big too actually keep the combo up. These are issues none of the Flatout games had. I haven't read the credits so I don't know if these are the same people who made Flatout, but if they are, then this is one of the worst cases of mass amnesia that I've ever seen because they've forgotten pretty much everything they learned from that game. Kudos for the DRM free release but that's about it.
