To give a fair and accurate review of this game it's important to compare it to other games in the same genres. 1. Role-playing Game It's strange that this is the first genre listed on GOG, as it is not an RPG at all. There are very few "choices" you can make in this game, and none of the choices you make for the first 95% of the game make any difference. The only other RPG mechanics are the XP system and the inventory. GTA: San Andreas is arguably more of an RPG than Cyberpunk. 2. First-person Shooter The gun mechanics in this game are passable but gunfights themselves are quite boring. Enemy AI seems to have come from the 20th century. 3. Sandbox Game I have played a lot of Grand Theft Auto like sandbox games. Cyberpunk's sandbox would probably rank the worst. There is no fun to be had interacting with the random NPCs. The driving mechanics are stiff and boring. The "wanted level" system in Cyberpunk adds no degree of difficulty. Cyberpunk 2077 is bad at everything it tries to do, and its failures don't stop with the gameplay. As many others have mentioned, the game is very buggy and has frequent performance issues. The most important issue that's not brought up is the quality of the writing. The main story is decent for the first couple hours, after which the quality drops off dramatically. The side quests (if you want to call them that) are all extremely generic. An AI chatbot could have written more compelling stories. The dialogue throughout most of the game seems like a placeholder, and the frequent unsolicited phonecalls from NPCs seem like a prank on the audience. Cyberpunk 2077's failures are especially shocking because they are things CD Projekt Red used to be very good at. It seems apparent that whatever CD Projekt Red was no longer exists. It is truly a tragedy for the industry as a whole.
