the game could be much better if they didn't cut a lot, monowire is totaly useless it could have been something amazing for the netrunner build... the character builds are almost meaningless they play similar, the crafting is annoying (waiting to craft 1 at the time? are you kidding me?), the gunplay is ok, the driving is very bad with the minimap zoomed too in so you slide left and right because you don't see when to turn, the police spawns behind you (ridicolous), the AI is no I you can cheese it as you please, the controlls on PC look like if CDPR never made a game before...
And the BUGS, wow the bugs... "when it's ready" they said, i hope they add all the features back with FREE DLCs...
I'm so disappointed, and i regret preordering this and being hyped for lies
I've been looking forward to Cyberpunk for a couple years. I played all 3 Witcher games. I thought Witcher 2/3 were triple A titles worthy of RPG of the year. I have immense respect for CDPR.
But this is NOT a finished game. I played it for a few hours then I was like, "Nuh uh. No. NO. Not doing this."
This is early access IMO. Maybe beta.
Quick recap, without spoilers. Character creation felt simplistic and lifeless. It felt incomplete. The appearance customization options were limited. There was only one male voice and one female voice. I got into the game and the story started immediately with a mission. I step outside and a bunch of trees in the distance LUNGE FORWARD THROUGH SPACE AND TIME AND SLAP ME IN THE FACE AND THEN DISAPPEAR... but I can still see the trees through a building, some fenches, a car, some other cars... it's just super weird and immersion-annihilating. I get over the creepy trees and start the mission. The mission didn't go as planned, but the way things ended up it felt totally, "thrown together." The plot of that first mission felt as poorly written as this review. Almost lazy. I was like, "Um... Whaaaaat? What's going on? Why??" Then this weird, brief video montage got thrown at me that is probably supposed to... build up the story's key relationships or something. I got it but it felt so sloppy.
Then I start a couple more missions but the bugs, hot damn.
Like, something keeps bumping into me but it's invisible.
There are highlighted objects that I can't pick up even though I should be able to pick them up.
Cars appear out of nowhere.
Textures pop in all over the place.
People turn into vaguely human shaped black blobs of polygons, or their faces disappear.
Cops appear out of nowhere and kill me and I don't even know what I did wrong.
All this in 5 hours.
I will not play this game for at least a couple of more patches, but it DOES deserve a chance. It could be amazing. RIGHT NOW it sucks. Bad.
Radeon 5 3600, RX 5700XT, 16 gb ram, nvme drive
I would definitely wait to let the developers work on this a bit. You will love it if you are looking forward to it. I was not looking forward to this game at all, but wanted something new and shiny to play. I am enjoying it a lot. There are a lot of bugs, but they do not bother me. If you are going to be bothered by bugs/glitches then definitely wait. I used the recommended 1440p settings from Digital Foundry and am running at 60fps and up.
Hopefully things will calm down as the console ports get sorted out. I have not found things immersion breaking, but that is personal taste. I am actually intrigued with the experience. Thirty five hours in and I have had a few crashes. Luckily, I have lost very little to no progress on crashes. Most of what I am experiencing is collision detection, physics, and audio bugs. Nothing has prevented progress for me. I wish everyone could enjoy this because it is pretty cool. Hopefully all gamers can enjoy this properly sooner than later.
