This game rocks. I'm reviewing from the perspective of recreating a good tabletop rpg experience.the game system is going to have some limitations. Your dm is going to railroad you to an extent. That is all fine. The side quests are very detailed and offer great character building/writing/relationships. The side gigs are great (and plentiful) diversions that have more details than I would expect from a game this size. While the main quest is a bit linear, there's so many ways to approach each quest, much like Deus Ex. The game also feels like Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines in its design, only on a much more massive scale I've found the best way to approach this is to actually role-playing your character: Who is your V? Mine is a Nomad who's word is his bond; if he says he's going to do something, he does it. He's not a fan of corps, but will work with them if that's the job. If you cross him, you're an enemy for life. The narrative choices seem to really fit this character. On the technical side, this game does share some of VTM:B's flaws in that it lacks some polish, and there are occasional bugs or lack of explanation. CDPR has done a great job patching these so far, and very rarely have I experienced anything that caused me to reload a save. Even with the tech problems, I still think 5 stars is appropriate because this game delivers on a fun rpg experience that plays like Deus Ex meets VTM:b, with a map scale and side quest log the size of the witcher, amd that's pretty fun. I dont really know what everyone else was expecting, but I pretty much ignored all ads, previews, and hype. Playing on i7 7740k, GTX 1080, 32gb ram, side, 1440p high/ultra averaging about 50fps.
