Take a tactical game, where every well placed shot and every second counts - and take away sidearms and give your officers magazines unlimited ammo, so smmo doesn't count and there is no need to ever reload. Take a tactical game that has various equipment from night vision to silencers - and don't ever utilize any of these equipment. And so on and so forth. It is a port of a mobile game, and it clearly ahowsnthe depth of a mobile game. The concept was very good, bit shoups have been done properly.
Let's get the elephant out of the room. The release was a proper mess. The game felt like it was still in Early Access, very much like most of your Ubisoft titles. Communication was not clear whatsoever. Not during release, not in the previous months. At the same time, Cyberpunk 2077 is a fantastic representation/adaptation of the CP universe. Make no mistake, this is not a GTA-like sandbox simulator, nor your usual open world game. This is a pen'n'paper RPG adapted to your computer. The character builds. The characters! The dialogues! Johnny Effin' Silverhand! The gorgeous graphics and sights! All the different districts where you can just drive around listening to a fictional band you realize you became a fan of. The fun, tight combat. All the variations, options, all the ways you can incite glorious chaos! 300 hours in, I'm still not bored of it. I firmly believe that the release and especially the communication surrounding it was a mess, and that's what netted a lot of negative feedback. And honestly, CDPR deserved it all. But with some hard work, this is a game that worths fixing and worths experiencing because despite all its flaws, it is the best immersive experience released in a good while. All the details, all the secrets that make Night City a living, breathing character on its own make it a bloody brilliant game.
