There are aspects of a good game here. But no facet of the game seems as good as it could be. In other words, every aspect of this game is done better in other games. -The open world is shallow, with NPCs seeming very robotic and not life-like, including the police and traffic AI. -The perks are mostly small percentage increases in damage, health, etc. -The loot system is cumbersome with the player's inventory filling up with trash items very quickly. -Armor values tied are to clothing so fashion goes out the window. -The driving mechanics are imprecise. The steering will cause you to over correct A LOT. -The melee combat is floaty and imprecise. Enemies have a type of "movement assist" that makes it hard to predict if their attacks will hit or miss (they'll usually hit you even if you think you're out of range). -The enemies are bullet sponges. Shooting a human enemy in the head 4 times still won't kill many of them. -The "choices" you make as V aren't really choices as much as stopgaps in the dialogue for player input to keep the story going on a set path. -For some reason, they hard coded the 'F', 'I', and 'J' keys, so rebinding keys is pointless unless you want to dig into the xml config files. Is this a PC game or not? This is all on top of the horrendous bugs and bad performance. -Floating items, NPCs, cars, floating everything. -Falling through the world. -Can't equip or unequip weapons at times. -All types of graphical glitches. -Quests freezing or not starting at all. On the positive side: -The city is pretty to look at...when there are no graphical glitches. -The voice acting is pretty good. -The story is somewhat intriguing. This game is ultimately a waste of time and money. It seems the focus of this game was all about presentation and they neglected making a fundamentally sound and quality game with good game design. They'll most likely have the bugs fixed within a few months. These game design choices will probably never be corrected however.
