It starts just average, like typical console port with all design flaws you can imagine (stupid keyboard controls, small spaces, follow-one-path narration and bluntly obvious indication for interactive elements) but after first ~2 h it opens up into a magnificent experience of perfect gaming. Well, the console roots shows off in the key binds but everything else disappear and experience is so superb that one can get used to controls. It is perfect combination of a story driven game with open world where you can free roam and do missions as they come or you can push the main story forward and still have even more fun with a bit more challenge. It has a racing game component that is completely optional but driving is so good that at some point you will want to do it anyway. I'm not into racing games at all and I did it in mad max. Some say it is repetitive and technically that is right (half of the game is about drive somewhere and kill bad guys, repeat), but each location is visually different, some have unique mechanics and the actual gameplay is very satisfying so you actually want to do it more! By the way, the way world is designed – it feels so… real. At all times all feels so organic, so right and plausible (given the world settings ofc).
Try to compare CP2077 to what you know from other cRGP and you will end up disappointed. Cyberpunk is not your average "player as a superhero" RPG game. It is a game where you create a character and have an adventure in Night City. While at it you are free to do whatever you choose but ultimately it is a story-tell about the city and certain events. And V - your character - is just a vehicle for that story to roll and way for player to experience it. And of course - it is Cyberpunk cliche you could say - your character will have a strong motivation to become an important person or someone famous or influential or rich or powerful or all of that. Intentionally or accidentally you will take part in some great plot. But in the end whatever you do does not really matter. Yes, you will perhaps kill someone or destroy something, but overtime that someone will get replaced and that something will be rebuild. In the long run your character deeds will be forgotten and world will carry on ready for next character to step in and try hard to get into major league. Real RPG were not meant to be played "against GM" but to follow the story together. So some times even if you - the human - could foresee something coming or know something cleaver, if you character was not supposed to know that you were not supposed to role play it. . So if you chose "I'm in it to win it at al cost" approach you will be disappointed. But if you actually try to play an intended role of your character, you will discover a really great experience, something I dare to call the real role playing game. But I wish players would finally stop trying to simplify CP2077 experience to what Witcher3 or GTA or whatever other game provided and instead take it for what it really has to offer. For it is a real gem. Unpolished yet - bugs - but with really great potential of being a genre re-defining game.
