First of all yes there are bugs, control and balance issues. These can be fixed given time and I'm not including those in this review. This is regarding what the game is and isn't. For a game based on a RPG, Cyberpunk 2077 is lacking a great deal of the Role Playing aspect. The main story line is rigged from the end of Act 1 and it put a significant downer on my interest in both the character and the game in general. I have a second character that is locked in one area of the game due to avoiding the dead-end main story. Character creation is ok, you are limited in the physical build of your character to male or female and therefore the options are mostly cosmetic with some minor options to change the face. All the cyber options your character has are subsurface. During the game you'll see people wearing a number of replaced limbs and body parts in various styles, CDPR used these a lot in the media and none of them are available to you. I feel this was a lie perpetrated by CDPR. The three life paths (Nomad, Street, Corp) are nothing remotely resembling the narrative that CDPR pushed in the media. Other than a very short prelude the choice you make has no further use other than the odd option during conversations. Essentially the significance of the life path choice was a lie. The city could have been Steelport from Saint Row 3 for all the feelings of a futuristic corrupt city it generates. The various gangs are set encounter points and have no point in the game beyond giving you the same foe in different styles to kill/disable, no gang v gang territorial fighting etc. Your actions don't cause a reputation change with a target gang, the police or the other gangs. Street Cred is purely to control access to equipment. What CDPR released is nowhere near the game they pushed in the media it is, it could have been great but as of this review it is poor. The best it is likely to achieve with all the patching and updates is a mediocre OK.
