Love open world RPG's with a strong story and an amazing cast which holds you strong the entire time? Then this is for you. I only got this game in the year of 2020 and I regret it so much but it was worth it!
NOTE: I'm running on a high-end system with an RTX 3060ti & Ryzen 5 5600x. As of writing this review, I currently have 70 hours into this game and have completed the main story twice. I enjoyed what I played of it but after that I felt as if I had nothing to do and the game felt empty. The Good: - Strong story with a reasonably interesting plot and good cast although it falls apart in a lot of areas and it is evident there is missing content. - A beautiful world with a lot of detail and work gone into it. Although, water is terrible with RTX off - this should not be a standard thing we MUST have for water to look good in a game! - Sound in both music and radio broadcasts are excellent, sounds in the world is good but things like cars sound are terrible with incorrect gear-shifting, an odd oversight. The Bad & Ugly: - The bugs, now don't get me wrong... PC has it good when it comes to not having massive bugs BUT, the amount of times I was taken out of the immersion because of them was just way too many times. Small and big bugs occured in my playthroughs and they lowered my enjoyment of the game. Notably I did not experience any crashes in my 70 hours. - AI & NPC's are just awful as if they took no interest in them, they walk in circles, walk from one end of a street then turn around and rinse and repeat... we see little to no interactions with not just the player but the rest of the world... terrible decision. - The performance; I experienced some of the worst jumps in performance, I ran the game on max settings (RTX Off) and I got around 80-100FPS with lows in the 45-60's which should be unacceptable. I can understand a flat (80) but the game experienced massive drops and it was terrible. - The biggest and sadest part of this, MISSING CONTENT! Unfinished parts of the world, fake marketing, fake information about upgrading cars, getting new houses and the list goes on. Thank you for reading and CDPR, don't be sorry - be better!
