What I really liked about this game was: - music - really suits the "climate" - and if we speak about "climate" - for majority of the game it was great - dark, corpo owned etc. - a lot of lore items, that you could read (pity there were no audiobooks). What I really didn't like: 1) hacking 2) fighting. 3) lack of tutorials ad 1 - this strongly reminded me Shadowrun series. God, I hated it so much back then, And here it same, it has nothing to do with RPG, it's rather some "dexterity" repetitive element, that you need put a lot of time and resourcess into although you find no enjoyment in it at all. ad 2 - AI of enemies is terrible (like really really, they even do not know how to jump), resources are scarce, after short time it become frustrating. ad 3 - I don't like when game huide you by hand on every occasion but this game do not explain you almost nothing, and when you try to find i.e. controls you will get only basic ones. And then you need to search web. In general, most of the fun I had was in the first hours - when I was travelling around the city (or sewers), reading books, going to various places, doing quests. But then with repetitive fighting, repetitive hacking and story "erupting" in a quick manner I had less and less fun.
I am a big Fallout 1 & 2 and Metro franchise fan, so I had a lot of hopes for this game. I gave it 3 chances, longest one was for several hours. But no matter how much I've tried, game couldn't convince me in any way. Sorry.
For current price it's definitely worth it, would give score like 7/10. Good type, quite similar to ATOM RPG or Wastelands 2, obviously to classic Fallouts. And this is the biggest advantage of this game, which by default suggests its good. Still have some bugs present, mostly smaller ones. From these annoying - several times my alt stopped working so I couldn't highlight items and had to restart game. Or, quest item kept disappearing from my inventory so I had to find cheat command to add it. Or quest that just "stuck" and I couldn't progress (mayor elections). Main minuses except bugs: 1) Big cities which seems empty in a great part, 2) Many quests required tiring travel between various locations back and forth, you just have a feeling of time lost while waiting for your party to run from one marker to another, 3) Experience system need balancing, at the very high levels I could level up by killing 2 standard enemies in one minute. 4) For me there is too many items that you can search - sound strange but there is a lot of searchable items in each area, usually contain junky stuff, and many have second or two of "animations". It was ok at the beginning, but later I was really tired. 5) Haven't noted any companion related quests, 6) Haven't felt a lot of depths in NPC, usually dialogues are quite short and can be summarised as "do this". Not sure if I will remember any of them in few days. 7) Dunno really how you can obtain any car. I just got "movable HQ" which a method of transport, however again a bit of wasted potential, as you cannot i.e. improve it anyhow - i.e. speed or looks. Anyway, had quite good fun with it, happy had a chance to play, however game could have been significantly better.
