CDPR have a crack at a gta style open world, Deus Ex style immersive sim mixed with a crpg. This could have been a killer mix of gameplay elements and story content but game the only really manages to deliver in the story department. The main and bigger side quests and how they branch and weave off one another is akin to the witcher series and deliver great moments, tension, action, emotion and all you will come to expect from a CDPR game. The lesser side content is handled haphazardly, characters you have never heard of or been introduced to prior will call you to offer or give you jobs and there is very little context for them. It would have been nice if these people could be met during the game somehow naturally and the jobs you get given more world and story context. Despite those issues the gameplay loop is still fun and rewarding. Where this truly game falters is in it's world simulation which open world games of this nature really lean on to keep the player engaged and immersed. The AI for pedestrians, police and vehicles are poorly implemented and buggy. AI will spawn right infront of you or despawn as soon as you look away. There don't seem to be any police cars on patrol or gang members in their vehicles. There are so many bad design issues even if the bugs get fixed there is a fundamentally incompetent world simulation supporting the game and CDPR are probably not going to able to fix that. The game is also really buggy which hides some of the bad design, I have encountered too many to count. Heart rending moments spoiled by the audio visual glitches, t posing characters, broken quest lines etc. CDPR bit off more than they could chew and every aspect of the game to various degrees has suffered for it.
