Great environments, decent story, mid-gameplay with interesting powers laid over tedious 3rd-person shooting. The most useless map in gaming. But overall, please don't buy this buggy "ultimate edition." Came back to this after hearing all the hype for Alan Wake 2. Pretty disgusted with the state of gaming industry that a studio with all the hype and success is still selling a broken game. If I want to start a new game, I have to comepletely delete my exsisting save files and disable cloud saves, because if I try to start the second level, Maintenance, having paritally done it on my first save, the game will confuse its save files and locked me out of progressing the game. Having done that, I am now having a consistent crash when completeing the mission "Captive Audience" to gain the hypnosis power. Checked online to see both these issues are widespread and known for years. FIX YOUR GAME.
My PC is a good margin above the reccomended specs, and I've actually only had a couple major glitches so far. Considering the potential for the Cyberpunk property, this game is just so bland. An extremely pretty open world that's completely shallow. Imagine Fallout 3 if the only enemies you fought were the plain human wastlanders or drones and the sidequests only came from the same three people calling your cell phone immediately one after another when you walk into a new area. Most of those siequests are just going inside a building to kill the same gang members you've been killing. Over 40 hours in and the only one mission so far that gave me a CHOICE to make was so obvious that one option was "good" and the other option was "bad." The gangs are all the same; mow down every Tyger Claw in the city and then have the Tyger's gang leader text you about a used car. The cyberware augments are a joke, you get one out of four weapon options for you arms and some variation on a double jump for you legs and that's it. Everything else makes as much diffference in gameplay as a new shirt does. The main missions with Keanu Reeves are fun but they're clearly the ONLY thing they put real effort into, so like, why bother with the giant empty world?
