A deeply engaging narrative with a huge amount of replayability. Despite taking successful mechanics from other games it is still quite experimental. Choices have subtle consequences changing the world and your relationships with characters which you wouldn't realise until a 2nd playthrough. Cinematic setpieces are balanced with open mission design allowing a plethora of ways to complete an objective. The main story is much shorter than The Witcher 3 but the side content is a lot more fleshed out here. Police scanners, gigs and side quests tell intertwining stories which explore the dark setting. The graphics look spectacular on my GTX 1080 which is of course, without ray tracing. The city itself is astonishing to explore but there is a caveat. Like The Witcher 3, the game expects you to be completing quests and objectives constantly. This didn't bother me but I expect those who were looking forward to a lot of GTA-style free roam interaction were disappointed. Ultimately CDPR were misleading with their marketing, released the game too early and managed to pick up a few other controversies along the way (e.g. epilepsy BD sequence, Devotion removal). There are still bugs and optimisation issues and the way they hid console footage before release was predatory. Even with all that, it's still one of the best games I've ever played. By all means wait for some patches, maybe for the inevitable GOTY edition but do play this game at some point.
