To begin, this game is beautiful when it works. The key there being "when it works." You have these extremely detailed character models just bumbling into each other, clipping through everything. Kill an enemy and their drop just spawns mid-air like some stage-hand just threw it onscreen. Kill an enemy and their empty health bar just lingers on your screen forevermore. The UI is clunky at best, the minigames are boring and time-consuming. To craft, you just hold a button. To hack, you just scroll a menu. The main story is bland, and the very definition of "railroading." The "lifepaths" were so clearly meant to be so much deeper (and probably related to that missing stat in the menu. Lookin' at you, Empathy!), then just immediately crumble into the same uninspired story. The side missions are buggy. The combat is buggy. The driving is buggy. The textures are buggy. And this is all after their Big Fix patch, so I don't see this getting better. The sound design is really great, though.
