I finished this game in about 133 hours with 73% completion and want to share my opinion afterwards. As a fan of The Witcher series and GOG as fair plattform I preordered this game long time ago with confidence - and I was not disappointed! Of course there are a lot of technical flaws - even running it on a really fast PC (8CoreRyzen, 32GB RAM, RX5700XT, etc.). Maybe this product should have been a PC exclusive title to polish some game mechanics (e.g. clipping, NPC-AI, etc.) some more, instead of pushing it in the last stage on all plattforms at the same time (blablabla - we all know better now)...., but...: This game gave me so many awesome hours of immersive entertainment with really nice stories in a really cool Night City area in a well designed Cyberpunk World. And I look forward to what CD Project is making with this new CD RED Engine - if you see what the first The Witcher (not remastered!) looked like and what it became to with Witcher 3 and its brilliant DLCs with a fair price, you know what can come: So many well entertained hours of gaming fun! Bethesda has almost ruined its FallOut franchise with 76. Maybe NewVegas2 will save some honor. Rockstar polished their GTA/RDR engine to excellence in its current state with RDR2. But let´s see what GTA 6 will be like. And you - CD Project - will hopefully overcome the flaws and show what you already shown before. I believe in you. ;-)
This game is not "fun" to play. But it succeeds very well with the question: What would you have done at these times? In its core it is a round-based strategy game as you move along the timeline from 1933 to 1945 in Nazi Germany, where you react in a counter party to true events in Berlin. Do you play it safe and stay alive with your party against Nazi oppression? Or do you take the risks to save innocent lives, but get threatened with death penalty as well? Of course you can say "it is long time ago, nobody cares anymore", but since the mechanisms of oppression and terror stay the same, you may gain the core of the game. It is hard to say I "liked" the game - but I felt pretty impressed and it left me thinking. This game is your chance to try to play like a "Schindler" or just to be an anonymous Non-Nazi, who made it through the darkest of times... My first result - in which I mostly cared for survival of my group than spectacular actions - left me thinking, whether I should have risked more. Aesthetic of graphics and sound contribute very well to the setting. The stories are well told, but could have been somewhat more detailed or divers. Result: A fine shining and important gem of a game, but not for people, who "just play for fun".
