When this thing is fully polished, it'll be a 10/10. A true succesor to the originals - one to enjoy for many years to come.
On of the best open-world RPGs ever.
With all the improvements, additions and tweaks, this game is now one of the best openworld RPGs of all time.
Extremely well written with significantly different paths and outcomes in several quests. Dogtown offers tons of parkour and challenging combat. Lots of new vehicles, weapons, outfits and other stuff. Fantastic soundtrack. A Must have!
Here's a brief, non-exhaustive list of things the game DOESN'T give you; - Character customization past the initial character-creation (no really, there's NONE!) - A.I. that can match games from 15 years ago - Wallrunning with the Mantis Blades - Meaningful choice-and-consequence (seriously; 98% of your choices do NOT matter!) - The ability to use an NPC as a human shield WHILE firing a weapon - Vehicle customization - Weapon customization (a scope and silencer isn't enough) - Player home customization - The ability to remap keys (double-tap to dodge... really, CDPR?!?) - Interactions with NPCs (you can't converse with 99% of them) - Interactions with the world (no gambling, no roller-coaster rides, no train rides, no NOTHING) - Replayability - Destructability of the game world and its objects (GTA 5 has waaaay more of it) - An immersive, next-gen U.I. (the U.I. is as basic as it gets) - A reputation/wanted/morality/faction system - Balanced combat - Balanced economy - Any hope of the future of CDPR... The complete list of things the game DOES give you; - Buyers remorse! - Proof that there are no 'good guys' in this corrupt industry - A gorgeous looking open world (when it's not glitching out...) - Proof that many so-called 'reviewers' are gullible at best - bought and payed for at worst! - All the reason you ever needed to NEVER PRE-ORDER!!! I will revisit the game in 2022 to see what - if any - meaningful improvements have been made, but in the meantime, I will be replaying the vastly superior open-world RPG games from 10+ years ago.
