The game was surrounded by an extreme amount of hype, which is never a good thing. Hype creates expectations and very often those expectations are not delivered. This is the unfortunate case with Cyberpunk 2077. Remember those first gameplay videos from 2 years ago? The almost an hour long demo of the beginning of the game with the Maelstrom gang and all the little things they kept hyping up? I wish the game was like in those videos. Most of the little things they were advertising then have been stripped out. As an example, remember that jacket and the talk about street cred? Not in the game. Remember the talk about an interactive world? Well, there's nothing interactive in the world. It's really sterile. Pretty much the only things you can interact with are the two types of food dispensers and stores that sell you guns and clothes. The city, while it can look pretty, is lifeless and void of activities. There's nothing else to do except shoot gangbangers. It's pretty, but shallow. The game itself is really buggy and janky. When it's not the animations bugging out, cars floating in the air or things falling through the ground it's the sounds cutting off or not playing at all. The performance is also really horrible. The recommended specs are not very accurate in my honest opinion. The game is being advertised as a roleplaying game, but there's almost no roleplaying in it. V is written on tight rails. You're just pressing a button to advance to the next line. The only way to play is to shoot everything dead. Even all your attributes and perks are focused only on making your guns, melee or hacking abilities more deadly. There's nothing else. With patches, after all the bugs are ironed out, I can see an OK game in here. But it's just that. OK as in mediocre. Certainly not very "breathtaking." Maybe within a years time, if this game ever gets an "enhanced edition" treatment like the Witcher titles, things might be different. Right now I feel misled and cheated.
