I've played about 16 hours of the game so far and here's what I think: I'm reading a lot of critic reviews that are expressing disappointment that the game did not "push gaming forward". What does that even mean? I don't think it's fair to expect this game to change the way we play games forever, and then condemn it if it doesn't. It's a fantastic game that takes from all the great games before it and puts them together to tell (what I think is) an amazing story. I think people are judging this game unfairly. I think the game is a 4/5 overall due to the minor launch bugs I've seen, but I'm saying 5/5 to do my part to even-out all the 1/5's and 2/5's I'm seeing (come ON, really??). I'm also reading a lot of user reviews that are bashing it for the launch-week bugs and lacking the ability to change keybindings. Those fixes are coming. I've encountered bugs, but nothing game-breaking and I knew the risk playing huge AAA games at launch. Expecting patches and fixes is the rule - not the exception. Haven't we all been through this enough to not make that a whining point? Some people complain that it's crashing and not playing well, but don't post their specs. I'm using an RTX 2070 with an i5 6 core cpu, and 32 gbs of ram. I upgraded as much as I could afford, but still a far cry from a 3080 or the like - and I actually figured I'd have a ton of problems. I'm running the game at 1440p on Ultra settings all the way down the line. No issues. I'm not a fanboy of the Cyberpunk franchise, in fact I'm a Shadowrun guy, but this game has a huge, gorgeous world with incredible techno punk/retrowave music. It possitively oozes with pure, cyberpunk personality and style. If you are a fan of the genre, you should play this game. I don't know another game where I can listen to punk techno and walk on steamy rain-slicked streets, get in my neon-lit 70s muscle car and then chop a boosterganger's head off with a katana.
I would love to give this game 5 stars, the game itself deserves it. However, this particular product has not been updated to work on modern hardware and requires a lot of digging online to figure out a way to cap the frame rate so that it you can complete mission 5. You will have a blast all the way up to the jump in mission 5, and then you’ll be crushed as you realize it is impossible to complete due to this problem. There are people posting solutions, but none of them work for me and quite frankly GOG needs to package this game with the fix implemented like they did with Blade Runner. Will change my review once it is fixed.
This game is a masterpiece. Before the concept of a game company consulting directors, set designers, prop masters, and art directors for the films they were adapting became standard practice - there was Westwood Studios’s Blade Runner. They went to the source material: sketch books of sets and characters by the creators of the film - they even built their prerendered 3D game sets out of “junk” assets just like the prop masters and set designers did for the film. The end result is art worthy of the Blade Runner title in every way. The story is fantastic, the pace is methodical with moments of intense suspense and action, the characters are mysterious, making you suspect everyone, and the moral grey area is exactly on brand with the film. I can’t recommend this game enough. Please do yourself a favor and give it a play through.
I getting the demo of this game with one of the many PC Gaming magazines back in the day and playing it over and over, I was hooked. When I saw this on GOG I jumped at it and I can finally play it in its entirety. I’ve just finished the first mission and it’s just how I remember it, so fun. They must have patched the game, because I see a lot of people complaining it doesn’t work but it works perfectly for me on Windows 10.
