Good game, builds on the previews one. Cool ending. 8.5/10
The game is worth it if you have a certain tolerance towards bugs. It's fun to play (the gunplay is solid for an RPG, the blades are useful, and hacking and stealth are, somewhat OP, valid ways to play). The story is good and interesting, with well-made characters that could have been developed more but are, overall, acceptable. A few side quests are fairly good although most are short filler with just a min amount of context. _*BUT*_ The game is plagued by small, annoying, design decisions that are absolutely awful for immersion. For example, you have the same button mapped for reloading _and_ changing your current weapon with some other weapon instead of just looting it. So, what should have been a cool function to try new weapons on the fly turns into this thing where you wanted to reload but instead changed your favorite weapon for some useless garbage and now you have to stop the action, go into the menu, change it back, and exit the menu only to have it happen again after a while. Another example, the minimap shows a tiny part of the actual map even if you're driving at 200mph, which, of course, means you'll miss every turn there is (and kill a bunch of people trying not to miss it) when you try and use the nav function to go to the next objective. There are others of course, that most already know of like police popping in from nowhere when you inadvertently kill some NPC (which will happen very often driving), the IA of cars shouldn't even be called that because they just stay put if by any chance they happen to find any obstacle whatsoever (oh, unless that obstacle is you, in which case they'll just run you over and keep driving at exactly the same speed as if nothing happened), and a bunch of other stuff like that. There are constant glitches which I usually don't mind (the exception being during the main story because this game was supposed to be first person only to be as immersive as possible....). In conclusion, it's a diamond in the rough.
