《赛博朋克 2077》

To begin, let me give you the setting. I'm playing on a 5 year old Asus ROG laptop so yes, the laptop is old and I'm playing on the "Low" graphics setting, which puts everyhing at minimum, but I did get the latest GeForce drivers. I've only played for about two and a half hours, which were mostly character creation, going through the menus to check all the settings and going through the very start of the game. Without giving any spoilers, about 10 minutes into the game, there is kind of an in-game cinematic sequence, where the character is standing in front of a mirror. For me, this was an armless torso with legs and what was obviously the most important part to render at that moment... the dude's d**k, just flailing around... even though a few seconds later his arms spawned in and he also got some clothing (don't ask me why it was necessary to render the body that you're not going to see anyway under the clothing). That's fine. I have a laugh and keep on playing. Another 10 minutes later and I'm in a four-part tutorial, of which only the first two parts are mandatory. First part goes ok. Second part fails to finish loading all the assets... walls are missing, objects relevant to the quest are missing... I load the last autosave, which 'fixes' the problem... Now, here's the thing. I want to complete all four part of the tutorial. I start part three (stealth), which tells me to go to a window, so I do that. Next it tells me to press the scroll wheel on the mouse to 'tap' some targets. I try this multiple times, over multiple reloads, both while in stealth and out of stealth, both while holding 'Tab' and without. I even tried re-mapping the key... nope... Not asking for a refund, but I'm not wasting my limited leisure time trying to figure out how to 'fix' the next bug 'flying' my way on a (supposedly) fully released game... I'll wait for fixes before updating the review... P.S. Had to google weapon/fists holstering... it's not in the 'Controls' (tap Alt twice)

In its current state, this game is a 5/10 with the potential of becoming the best game ever. I have no doubt CDPR can fix the bugs and glitches, they've proven it in the past. What I doubt however is that they can fix the biggest problem for me, but also its biggest strength : this game tries to be everything at once. It's kind of an RPG but not really, you can play it as an FPS, a looter-shooter, or even an immersive/stealth game like Deus Ex, or a GTA-like. And the problem with that, is that none of those mechanics and playstyles are polished enough, and since the game forces you down certain paths anyway, your choices, background and character build are often irrelevant, or even handicapping. It feels like it has been designed by people who had no clear idea of what they wanted to do, and somehow they managed to make eveyrhing so bad, it looks like it has been done by amateurs who never made a game before. How did they manage to make a bad crafting system AGAIN ? A bad AI ? Such bad driving ? Bad hacking system ? Confusing UI ? Bad shooting mechanics, bad melee, buggy stealth, stores selling only a handfull of clothes ( and almost the same ones no matter the store, even if you go to a classy corpo store they'll sell hobo street clothes ), unbalanced difficulty with guns shooting through walls making everything trivial, cops spawning behind you no matter where you are, NPCs not reacting to shootings, or going crazy when a car slightly hits a wall, etc. The list is too long to spend time on it. They'll have to fix a LOT of things to make it right, on top of fixing the console versions, making the DLCs, and then the multiplayer game... I sure don't want to be working at CDPR right now. And I hope the developers will at least be well compensated for all their efforts.

It's cute with these bugs everywhere, lame npcs reactions, empty City in lots of places. It's definitely not a great game. It's good but not for that much.

To sum it all up, disappointment. Eight years of hype to launch what is basically an early access game. An early access game that can barely run unless you're one of the lucky people to have an RTX card that can also enable DLSS and even then, just barely. It's a beautiful game when it actually runs. It's massive and sparkly but just like the themes of the original tabletop, it's soulless and incredibly surface level glamour. The laughably integrated "AI" acts on the level of games 20 years older and the gameplay is a boring repetitive loop with less than stellar combat. There's none of the promised "RPG" elements, no side quests worthy of the name except "go here, kill these, repeat", and just nothing customizable whatsover. You can't do anything with your looks outside of the initial character creation, nothing to customize your vehicles, you can't see any actual changes to your cyberware, you can't do anything with your apartment, there are no impactful relationships you can build other than being literally told "you care about this person because reasons." I gave it an honest chance. almost 40 hours of the most bugged and glitchy gameplay I have ever forced myself to play because I wanted to love it so bad. And at it's core there is a lot of promise. The story CAN be engaging, the voice acting is incredibly top notch, SOME characters really are good. But none of that means anything when you don't feel involved in your own story. You're not impacting the story at all, it's being told to you and having your hand held the entire time. It's a game that's all style but no substance.

The game is a mediocre but mostly playable action-adventure looter-shooter in a beautiful but empty open-world. The main issue however, aside from the heaps of bugs, is that this game is simply not as advertised. It is a stripped down, bare-bones, Early Access-esque version of a far superior game that probably got lost on the cutting room floor at the 11th hour in development. As such, Cyberpunk 2077 has neither the quality nor the quantity of content you would expect from the developers of the venerable Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt and its amazing DLCs. I trust and hope that CD Projekt RED will stick to their long tradition of providing excellent, post-launch support for their games, so that Cyberpunk 2077 may become a game worthy of our attention down the line. But right now it is nothing but a mediocre game containing frustratingly many wasted opportunities.