2.0 was worth the wait. Well done. The modding community is not as active with Imperator as they are with other games. Fortunately, Paradox demonstrated superb resolve and attention to detail with taking feedback from the community creating a fun and complex system. The owners of GOG.com could learn well from this example...
Two complete playthroughs with two different builds. I enjoyed the game and overall it is objectively passable. It is fun to play but the experience of the incredible world they built starts to wear off about 12 hours in. City feels very flat because you start to notice the tricks they used to make it appear deep initially. Many very poor design choices make what should have been an incredible game extremely mediocre in reality. Expect to forget this game in a year w/o some serious course corrections. A few observations below: Highs 1. Incredible graphics & item design. 2. Incredible soundtrack. 3. Interesting characters. You are my boy Goro! I restarted my first playthrough because I couldn't revert back far enough to make a different choice in your storyline! 4. Combat feels right. I think it is a highlight of the game but play on hard (at least). You just steamroll everything with a well tuned character. Lows 1. MMO level grind. 2. Why are there even fixers in the game? The devs just vomited every single mission onto the map. Vapid fixers keep constantly calling me. I never bothered to meet several of them in person unless the main quest required it. The system is a step back from the Witcher 3 Notice Board--a game that takes place in the equivalent of the Middle Ages. 3. There are no activities except go to bars, say one unique dialog, and order the same consumables. WHY no cyberpunk Gwent?! Goldmine...just saying. 3. Car buying system is terrible. You have to go to messages to look at pictures of the cars then hopefully remember the name and find the 'travel to the vehicle location' quest. Just lazy design... 4. No customization. You can't customize your car. RNG drops are the only way to get interesting clothes. You can't change your appearance. You can't customize your dwelling. You can't customize weapons. The RNG drops a nova tier weapon but I hate using it because it has a pink stock and it doesn't fit with my character.
