For this review I will try to disregard any hype and discuss my experience on PC. Technical: -Played on 10750H/2070 1080P RT ultra/DLSS Quality, frame rates are tolerable -Noticed many of the glitches/bugs mentioned in other reviews, not game breaking but immersion breaking -lighting and graphics are phenomenal, best RT implementation so far -keyboard/mouse controls are janky and can't remap important ones EXTREMELY BAD: only double tap dodge and holster, crouch toggle doesn't work reliably Gameplay: This is where I was disappointed, there isn't anything terrible per se, but there isn't really anything that great either. -overall story is good, but lacks character development seen in games like Witcher 3, there are only a few instances where you feel a connection with NPCs. For me this was due to a few causes: 1. constant interruptions during key points missions with texts and calls. 2. bugs causing dialogs to be skipped or have no audio. 3. interactions with NPCs seem to happen in isolated bubbles and have little or no impact on the rest of the world. -Key game systems are very shallow: 1. Crime/Police is a joke 2. side quests/gigs don't impact rest of world and feel like they are only there for XP farming. 3. Reputation/street cred is just a gate to purchase items 4. Your look or dress has no impact on play. 5. The world is beautiful but void of interactions, very few NPCs and ones that are there share the same cookie cutter responses and animations, nothing new to look forward to seeing after 5 minutes. 6. Netrunning is reduced one simple minigame despite being a major part of canon. 7. Cars make no difference to gameplay 8. Overall just not an RPG feel, it feels like a bunch of stuff got thrown on the map for filler but there isn't any depth or interplay to it. 9. Very few choices actually matter in the game Take GTA1 crime and driving, Outer Worlds gameplay, and AC Odyssey quests and maps and combine with killer graphics and you get CP 2077.
