A realistic, immerse medieval game with a surprisingly good story. Combat is refreshing and a real challenge to master, especially with 1-to-1 fights. However it's a bit difficult (sometimes annoying) to fight more than 2 enemies at the same time. Alchemy is not just 'collect some ingredients and press a button' to make potions. You actually have to follow recepies and boil, grind herbs. Do something wrong and your potion will fail. Really nice! Something that surprised me: NPCs have a night-day cycle: have a job, going to the tavern, relax (e.g fishing). They even have (random) conversations about recent events ! If you like medieval RPGs, a must buy!
Let's start with the positive: I played almost 90 hours and it is a fun game. BUT! A LOT of content was cut from the final verion. A lot of marketing videos show features/content that are not in the game. I understand that development is an iterative process and that certain features are removed due to design reasons. But the amount of cut content/features is just too large. I can understand that some people called the marketing "False Advertisement". The final version feels like a pale imitation of the advertised game. PROS: - Good story (linear, but still good) - Cyberware is nice, but could use some extra options in updates - Good combat - Driving is ok (room for improvement, especially the bikes) - Really good soundtrack & sound design - Many side quests - Night City is beautiful - Excellent graphics (But high-end PC needed!) CONS: - It is not a RPG - Lifepaths don't influence the story in a meaningful way - Police & NPC AI -> that CDPR shipped this game with such a dumb & barebones AI is unacceptable - Night City does not feel like a real city: NPC's just walk or stand static. - Too much cutting corners: Pacifica is empty and totally not "dangerous", soda cans are shown as bags, the bugs, removal of 3rd person cutscenes. - Very limited weapon customization: only scopes & silencers (not even paint ??) - Removed car customization (I would expect at least to be able to paint a car) - Soo many shops you can't buy anything from - Hacking watered down and limited In a world where body modification is "2nd nature", we cannot modify our character in a visible way ?! No barbers, tattoo artists or the shown prosthetics in marketing footage. CDPR went corpo and rushed an unfinished game out of the door. A lot of hype was created with many features that are not in the game, which is not acceptable. What had to be the game of the decade became the biggest disappointment of the decade. It's a fun game and worth its price, but it could have been so much more..
Best RPG ever created.
