The game is OK, but nothing special. It has so much potential to be more, but misses the mark in several respects. Aside from some bugs (my playthrough only had a few minor bugs) the other issues are lackluster gameplay, poor balance, missing features, and some weird censorship decisions which seem to have been made just prior to release. The gameplay is is a bog standard shooter with some RPG elements. There are melee and stealth systems, but they're not robust and there's nothing here that you can't find in another game with those features. The balance is terrible - certain categories of weapons are completly overpowered even without getting perks to upgrade them (Tech weapons can pierce through walls and can be charged up to do major damage), others are terrible even if you try to spec into them (such as the Monowire melee cybernetic upgrade, which has no perks associated with it as opposed to the other melee options, and the damage buff you receive from investing in the "Cool" stat is negligible). The world is full of detail and looks beautiful, but you can interact with so little of it that it still somehow ends up feeling empty and lifeless. The vast majority of sidequests are inconsequential. Break in, kill/steal x, then leave. Some of the sidequests have unique dialogue and interactions, and lead to their own quest chains, but nowhere near enough of them, at least in comparison to the Witcher 3. Even the story felt lackluster. Most people seem to be content with the story, but I felt like the story was very frontloaded - there was some great buildup and emotoinal scenes near the beginning of the game which sucked me in, but as the game went on there started to be less and less of this, concluding in one of several endings which all felt anticlimactic and devoid of emotion to me. The game needs some major revision and fixes and feature creep in order to justify the price tag. If you want to play a shooter, play CoD. If you want to play an RPG, play TW3.
