To me, this game looks great. I liked the scale, the city, side quests, almost everything. I love this genre in general, and we don't get much of it unfortunately. To me it has similar vibe to the fallout new vegas mixed with gta vice city and shadowrun. However there's a couple of things I find really annoying about it: * Bugs. Bugs. Bugs. It hangs, it crashes, in-game screens go blank, npcs get locked in the texture, etc. * The city is empty. I mean, ok, there are some people around, but clearly not 6mil residents as the lore says. 6mil people is A LOT. 3-4 npcs strolling around is definitely not enough. * NPC behavior is kinda broken. Rains heavily? Nope, no umbrellas, nobody is running not to get wet, everyone is just leisurely strolling around. * Driving. NPCs included. People don't drive like this, cars don't behave like this. No traffic cams lol. Also, where did all parkings go? There's literally none. And as a minor note - the first car V has was made in 2020. This should be one hell of a car to keep running for 57 years. * Some of the cutscenes don't feel natural. Like, V is riding a car which jumps HARD. People don't sit around like there's nothing, they tend to hold onto something. * Some of the visuals are broken, like the rain. You look to the side from your car and you see a bunch of noisy artifacts around every light pole. * You sometimes need to control yourself not to ruin the immersion. Like, not running like a madman, or not running by default. People don't do this.
When you're too drunk to play something else
Very relaxing. Yeah, maybe it lacks action. Maybe it's almost completely linear. But it really helps to relax after a long work day.
Great game. In many aspect it can even beat Homeworld, in my opinion. Full use of the 3D space, nice visuals, good sound, relatively slow pace (you can't really expect huge spaceships to be agile as birds). Why only 4 stars? Because of the Nav point creation mechanism. It sucks vacuum. For the tactical simulatior this part is crucial, and, unfortunately, it sucks. HW 3D control (and, from more recent examples, EVE Online tactical overview, though you can't really control the ship with it) was made way better.
