What to say that hasn't already been said? Let's dispense with arguments of "hype" and promises broken, because although you can make valid points on both of these, they also seem to detract from the real reason I am so disapointed; the game itself is bad. Let's also dispense with talking about console experience because I feel it's almost used as a smoke screen for real criticism of the game. Menus, gunplay, driving, customisation, NPCs, navigation, items. They are all a far cry from what we should *expect* from a £50, AAA title from an award winning game studio. It beggars belief how people are giving this game a 5/5 (really, 5 stars? A perfect score?!) and then saying the negativity is down to our expectations? Forget the expectations then; forget the trailers and the lore and the A-lister celebrities and all of that stuff. Another reviewer summed this game up perfectly "A shallow ocean of bugs". Emphasis on shallow, this game feels about as immersive as a sandbox action game of 20 years ago, like GTA III. This is not a "flawed gem" it's a Zircon. Plenty of games have come out in the last 20 years that sucked at release, and after many, many years of work turned out to be great products (Diablo 3 comes to mind). Honestly though, I'm probably never coming back to it.
Premise and art are amazing. The game itself is a complete chore, don't buy it
