First, I did avoid the hype for CDPR making any game having been jaded enough in the past. Having played now 25hrs and barely scratched the main story I can confidently state the CDPR absolutely knocked the world and gunplay out of the park. Meaty guns, awesome weapons, cool cyberware upgrades; all wrapped in the degenerate neon lights of a seedy cyberpunk city. The loot system is great, loots of upgrades and is addictive...I though them leaning towards looter-shooter would have been bad, but I am enjoying it ALOT. The world is damn cool, and for me the side quests and gameplay loop is satisfying. The graphics are AMAZING even on my meager GTX1660 6gb overclocked (I can play everything on high at 1080p hitting 60+ FPS. Its a dream come true game for me as I LOVE the genre; everything from Neuromancer to Deus Ex and Ghost in the Shell. Let talk about the delays and state of the game. Its bad. This behaves like an early access game. Enemy AI is kinda shit, and the graphics have pop-ins, bugs, clipping, animations being stuck, surfing NPCs, flipping cars going atmospheric. I have heard of game breaking bugs and I dont doubt it, but as of right now I have experienced nothing game breaking. I did have reload one side quest that bugged out the objective item i needed to collect, but the frequent autosaves kept that from being a game ruining event. The blowback is justified. The delays and 8 years of dev time were not enough it seems...I dont know what happened to CDPR, but I will say they have announced a roadmap as of this review to fix the game on all systems and are issuing refunds and aiding in it if you have a physical copy. Give the game 6 months and it may be one of the greatest open world shooter experiences ever. Right now its a buggy mess, but is playable and for me at least, VERY FUN. I do love the game. I will change my review once the game is fixed.
