This is essentially a single-story game, not an open-world game like any other you've played, you can only do *some* things in-between the real missions. Its "open" just because of that, but not because like in tradition with other games in such category, the world is fully immersive and interactive, where you can actually have a different adventure each time you play it. For me personally there's nothing to like about the game in the current state. First 5seconds into the game I was already loosing immersiveness, because I couldn't walk and was running around like a lunatic; I don't feel like I had any say in what my characters dreams are; the city, although filled by more people and cars than I have ever seen, seems more dead and flat than anything else- NPCs are more stupid than Warcraft 2 AI, 0 interactions that could resemble anything natural (not even close to something simple like the Morrowind implementation), everything is just repeated over and over again..; Very Hard mode is just stupid- 0 immersion there- I have to unload like 2-3 magazines into a head to kill anyone. Its not "Hard" its just unrealistic and boring. I won't even get into the bugs (mechanics, physics, anything- you name it is just wrong), as I wouldn't care much about them if the game was actually good; ~120hours of gameplay to complete everything? Really? I mean Really? For 60 bucks? Graphics are nice, but I don't care about that at all. I am truly disappointed with this purchase and feel like this is the only have that has mislead massively pre-launch and really didn't deliver anything that was promised. I have found 0 value to continue playing this game and will not play it until(/if) it gets massively improved.
