Cyberpunk 2077

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  1. TesserWolf
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    The graphics of the game look amazing, but it lacks a lot of what it should have been, and the performance is all over the place.
  2. Teddy3D
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    It's absolutely shameful that reviewers can drop a 10 point list of flaws and still award a mediocre game like this with a 9 or 10 score. There's no way this game is even an 8. The bugs are just a surface level distraction from how empty and soulless this game actually is.

    Compared to the way they marketed the open world of Cyberpunk, the end result is a empty husk with no substance.    It's absolutely shameful that reviewers can drop a 10 point list of flaws and still award a mediocre game like this with a 9 or 10 score. There's no way this game is even an 8. The bugs are just a surface level distraction from how empty and soulless this game actually is.

    Compared to the way they marketed the open world of Cyberpunk, the end result is a empty husk with no substance. They've put make up on a pig and "professional" reviewers eat it up for god knows what reason. This game lacks very basic features that you need for an open world game. I'm talking bare minimum stuff. One example of this is the lack of an actual AI for traffic. This game has no actual traffic Ai built into it. The drivers in this game are bots with predestined routes, no actual behaviour built into them. They drive from point A to point B and when you obstruct traffic they stop functioning and wait for you to remove said obstruction. There's no honking or switching lanes, things you'd expect from real life traffic. Things that are implemented in other open world games. GTA has had this since it's 4th installment, probably even earlier.

    The way the player interacts with the police is another obvious tell of how empty this game is. There's no chase. You commit a crime and suddenly a cop teleports behind you and kills you. Again, similair games with open world structure that also have police in them have had believably interactions with police 2 generations ago. Why would a 2020 game made by one of the most respected developers not have this? There's absolutely nothing to do in this so called open world, the game would function better on rails in its current state.

    Putting the lack of very basic and bare minimum AI aside, this game lacks customizability which should be a red flag considering the setting. This should be a massive opportunity for players to express themselves, but instead you get an overwhelming character creation with no means of adjusting your appearance later into the game. There are doctors that will implant you with cybertech but good luck getting a trim, cause the technology for that hasn't hit Cyberpunk yet.

    What a failure of a game. I seriously doubt that this mess can be patched up.    … Expand
  3. Phunkie
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    Great potential but the performance issues are too much to ignore. The recommended specs do not reflect the truth unless the devs think this game can perfectly be enjoyed at 40fps. Furthermore, hardware that is one year old is not supposed to have it so hard to deliver this amount quality. Quality/Performance ratio is very bad in this game. It is possible to get decent performance but forGreat potential but the performance issues are too much to ignore. The recommended specs do not reflect the truth unless the devs think this game can perfectly be enjoyed at 40fps. Furthermore, hardware that is one year old is not supposed to have it so hard to deliver this amount quality. Quality/Performance ratio is very bad in this game. It is possible to get decent performance but for that I needed to make it look less than mediocre.… Expand
  4. Mossandtree9513
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    - bugs: undercooked -illusion of ‘open world’ -false advertisement
    -bad dialogue (contrived, ‘hyper-cool’, over use of context) -interesting shooting sometimes -mediocre gameplay -interesting story
  5. waxta
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    I have been overhyped. I expected more from this game. That's why i give 5/10 rate.
    Cyberpunk 2077 has lots of bugs whose makes game look hilarious. Cops literally spawn behind your back. Same as other NPC and cars. LOD load artifacts. Character creator, in the beginning, is the only place when you can customisize your character — there are no barbers or tattoo artists in Night City. Once    I have been overhyped. I expected more from this game. That's why i give 5/10 rate.
    Cyberpunk 2077 has lots of bugs whose makes game look hilarious. Cops literally spawn behind your back. Same as other NPC and cars. LOD load artifacts. Character creator, in the beginning, is the only place when you can customisize your character — there are no barbers or tattoo artists in Night City. Once you learn throwing knives, you realize that it isn't possible to retrive them from the bodies — knives are very expensive and everytime you throw it, you must enter the loadout menu and place a new one knife to slot. Cyberpunk is not ready game yet — it is still beta. I am going to get back to play again for few months. You still have fun if you focusing completing the campaign, but the open world experience is ruined as hell.    … Expand
  6. Hanunim
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    Not bad but too buggy and smaller scale than when it was showed in night city wire
  7. Hot_Smurf_
    Jan 12, 2021
    7
    The game was good. The minor issues that I experienced were overshadowed by a great story and an interesting world. It was extremely overhyped and my expectations were very high, on which the game DID NOT deliver. I was positively shocked at how much more polished the game was and how well it ran on my hardware, but as I have said before my experience could be different from others. TheThe game was good. The minor issues that I experienced were overshadowed by a great story and an interesting world. It was extremely overhyped and my expectations were very high, on which the game DID NOT deliver. I was positively shocked at how much more polished the game was and how well it ran on my hardware, but as I have said before my experience could be different from others. The short story was good but I felt that the push to do sidequests made the game feel slow, and yet the main story was a second long. The gameplay mechanics weren't anything special. To me, this game feels like a mix of Fallout 4, GTA 5, Destiny, and Witcher. I don’t recommend this game for people who wanted a fully-fledged RPG, but the game was ok and I enjoyed my experience.

    7/10    … Expand
  8. dnswr
    Dec 24, 2020
    7
    After a while you loose the fun in that game cause the City is not interactive enough and citizens won´t react to your play-style. There are no things to do, no social "reactions" or economy. The physics are dull and early 90s style. If they wanted to make a DEUS EX +++ they don´t have to create a whole city of that size. It´s a very very good DEUS EX next gen. I also see the potential ofAfter a while you loose the fun in that game cause the City is not interactive enough and citizens won´t react to your play-style. There are no things to do, no social "reactions" or economy. The physics are dull and early 90s style. If they wanted to make a DEUS EX +++ they don´t have to create a whole city of that size. It´s a very very good DEUS EX next gen. I also see the potential of this game and it can go easy 10/10 next year and i will update my rating cause the story mode part is great and the shooting feels very good.
    Things to do:
    - physics (everything should react like in RDR2 and others)
    - AI (game is to easy)
    - NPC withe daily routines / life / reactions
    - Police system
    - economy in the city (all should feel connected)
    - More houses to enter and break in
    - storys and quests that envolves randomly because of your actions in the city
    - Overall Performance (gfx)

    I think time and Modding will lift it to another level. They shouldn´t release it and put at least 6-12 months into it to fulfill the vision.

    If anything changes to the positive i will upvote the game.

    Therewhile i will play RDR2, Assasins Creed Valhalla, Kingdom Come (+DLCs), Skyrim with MODS!!, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.

    This game is (CP) is a good base to start for the publisher and the modding secene but it feeld (after a while) lifeless. That doesn´t mean that the city is not a blast. It´s just there for aesthetic reasons and that´s why it´s a shame they released it in that state.

    Merry X-Mass gonna dl Valhalla now.    … Expand
  9. Thothistox
    Jan 10, 2021
    6
    Et tu CDPR? Et tu? ... CDPR--the RPG maker famed for the quality of its storytelling and side quests... makes a game with only around 20 real side quests.

    But wait, you might say, there are a hundred little exclamation points and question marks on the map! What about those? Well, those are variations on "kill this", "open that box", "upload that virus", "kill that guy", "rescue that    Et tu CDPR? Et tu? ... CDPR--the RPG maker famed for the quality of its storytelling and side quests... makes a game with only around 20 real side quests.

    But wait, you might say, there are a hundred little exclamation points and question marks on the map! What about those? Well, those are variations on "kill this", "open that box", "upload that virus", "kill that guy", "rescue that guy", "steal this", and only very rarely something else. It's instantly forgettable filler told through text messages on your phone, and little notes strewn around the desks and floors of the little region the mission is confined to. The missions are modular, do not affect world state in any way and almost never involve a decision.

    I was going to say that The Witcher 3 was different and never did anything comparable. No notes on the floor. No blow up this nekker nest to get a reward. I was going to say it had a hundred real side quests instead--with dialogue, cinematics and storytelling through showing rather than telling. (The most important rule of fiction is: show don't tell.) I was going to say that but then I realized that I was wrong. There were dozens of similar "questlets" in the Witcher 3. The thing is I haven't played it in 3 years and though I remember 90% of all the real actual quests and I could tell you about how I did them and what decisions I made, I completely forgot about the notes-on-the-floor questlets. That's how little of an impression they made on me. I forgave TW3 for having them because it had lots of other much better content. I'm not going to forgive CP2077 though because it doesn't. Nearly the whole game is made of this stuff.

    The notes-on-the-floor questlets are given to V by "fixers"--one-dimensional characters bound to a geographical area. They're barely introduced to you at all. They're not rivals. You have no choice about working with them or not. They trust you no matter what. A relationship with a notice board is more interesting.

    What kind of character is V? Is he a criminal? A hero? A discoverer of corporate conspiracies? Is he pro-corp evil or full-hippie nomad? What's his ideology? Does he think all corps are inherently bad or does he think Arasaka and Millitech are in the hands of bad people and everything would be okay if they were brought to justice?

    Answering these questions would make the game an RPG. One with decisions. One with pro and anti playthroughs. ... but it's not an RPG. Instead, V is a guy that levels up. And he gets loot. And he shoots gang members. (Why even bother having different gangs if they're just something for V to shoot?) V is a generic amoral nobody who does what his fixers ask. (Note: he does not transgress against an ethical system--that would be immoral. No, he's amoral. Which means not having morality at all. Like a doorstop or traffic cone. And about as interesting.)

    Answering these questions would also require an exploration of the villains of CP. Wait, who are those villains again? No individuals in CP stand out to me as villains. So maybe the real villain is the toxic culture of corporations! It makes good people do bad things--a wonderful bit of moral complexity that can be properly explored in a game. But CP barely touches on it. And it certainly doesn't involve any character development for V.

    Nope. V levels up. And collects loot. Gunplay is mostly quite fun. But mindless. Because it has only a superficial context. It is a struggle for the sake of struggle. Nothing more.

    After writing all this you might be wondering why I would give this game anything above 0. The answer is that the main quest is quite good. Keanu is great. There's a choice of multiple endings. There are subtle appeals to the subconscious throughout the main quests. In the cyberpunk atmosphere it's often hard to tell reality from illusion.

    But there's not enough of that kind of depth. There aren't enough characters either. There are only 10 or so real characters in CP. Any of the Witcher games had more--even the earlier ones that were made on 5% the budget.

    Those games had more cinematics too. The vocal cutscene-hating minority got its way in CP. No cutscenes. Fine. But they haven't been replaced with anything better. Instead everything happens at a distance and you have to look at it. Some of the facial animations are really good, but most people won't notice because the camera doesn't zoom in.

    What disturbs me most is that CDPR declared that CP2077 was finished in early 2020 and just had to be debugged. They thought that 20 side quests and just a choice of endings was a finished game. I have no hope at all for the next Witcher game now. I'm sure it's going to be Ciri reading notes on the floor and blowing up nekker nests for her fixer. And there will be a huge environment with ten thousand pedestrian NPCs that have one line of dialogue and tell you to f off 1000 ways. (I spoke to around 10 of the pedestrian NPCs in CP2077. It was just that much fun.)    … Expand
  10. itmo
    Dec 14, 2020
    6
    Technical issues aside, this game is underwhelming. The city looks great, the atmosphere is on song, the story is interesting, and seems original, yet they forgot to make a good game. The core game play mechanics are so basic and dumbed down, its a cross between AC and a bad first person shooter. For a game set in a realm where netrunners exist, hacking is such a pathetic mechanic inTechnical issues aside, this game is underwhelming. The city looks great, the atmosphere is on song, the story is interesting, and seems original, yet they forgot to make a good game. The core game play mechanics are so basic and dumbed down, its a cross between AC and a bad first person shooter. For a game set in a realm where netrunners exist, hacking is such a pathetic mechanic in the game. It is so badly implemented. You can hack in the middle of combat and the game pauses so you can crack a code. Try doing that in Deus Ex. At least Deus EX was challenging to hack, you can get spotted, yet in Cyberpunk, the A.I just waits for you to finish hacking before they will shoot or spot you.

    I was hoping for innovation in game play but all that was created was a GTA5 clone with 20 year old game play. This game needed another year to flesh out the core game play. It can still have elements of fun, but its just rinse and repeat ideas from the last 20+ years.

    having an impressive vertical map, is cool, but when you can't interact with 95% of it, what's the point of having objects just to take up space.

    Pick this one up in a year or 2 when its closer to being a finished product    … Expand
  11. Pallowin
    Oct 8, 2021
    5
    My biggest gripe with this game is the narrative.

    The main story is way too short and moves from point to point way too fast. Outside the side quests for your possible romances, there aren't really any other interesting ones. 75% of my play through was just boring busywork visiting every single Gig and NCPD scanner events in the hopes of finding something interesting... I did not.    My biggest gripe with this game is the narrative.

    The main story is way too short and moves from point to point way too fast.

    Outside the side quests for your possible romances, there aren't really any other interesting ones.

    75% of my play through was just boring busywork visiting every single Gig and NCPD scanner events in the hopes of finding something interesting... I did not.

    The game is an open world looter shooter and not an RPG.    … Expand
  12. Hagal
    Dec 15, 2020
    5
    Looter shooter with a good story. Everything about the hype was all jibber jabber.
  13. BaldwinE
    Jan 17, 2021
    6
    Since all the missing promised features and bugs have already been mentioned and there are lists of them out there I will start with an anology:

    Imagine you buy a prestige luxury sportscar, it looks astouncishing, heated seats with a massage function, state of the art enternaiment system, etc.. But then you push that start button to take it out for a drive and realize that it drives    Since all the missing promised features and bugs have already been mentioned and there are lists of them out there I will start with an anology:

    Imagine you buy a prestige luxury sportscar, it looks astouncishing, heated seats with a massage function, state of the art enternaiment system, etc.. But then you push that start button to take it out for a drive and realize that it drives like absolute **** The Suspension makes you puke while the trottle is as responsive as a coma patient. That is how it felt to play through Cyberpunk 2077.

    The beatiful - the mediocre - the trash:

    The Beatiful:
    - It has probably one of the best visuals that you can get in a game as of right now.
    - Splatter/dismembering effects are high quality.
    - Visual design, detail and animation of weapons and cars are top notch.
    - The main storyline and the side stories which you can have with main characters are mostly quite well done and interesting.
    - At certain times the game tries to induce a certain intimacy with a play of presentation, visuals and voice acting that no game I played has made it like that before, beatiful.

    The Mediocre:
    - Driving mechanic are really an afterthought for the most part but still functional and fun at times. There are specific off-road cars but they drive mostly just as bad on that terrain and flew of in the sky just like a sportscar or a truck. Sometimes the driving behaviour is inconsistent.
    - The Gangsystem: There is no gangsytem although there are implications of these, nobody hates or likes you, they are just there to be killed and give quests at the same time. No playerimpact.
    - Parkour running is a nice suprise

    Th Trash:
    - Gameplay Balance, there is no gameplay balance.. I never read or watched guides on how do find certain things or specifically try to abuse mechanics, just casually explored and tried to go for builds and playstyles that seemed fun. But even after 5 hours in one finds insanely strong skills and aspects and after that all the fun from the gunfight gets less and less until there is literally no fight any more.

    - Loot mechanics and Inventory are absolutely half assed and not even tested. Aside the fact that I can't loot like 80% of robots I kill for no reason I can also not loot 30% of weapons the enemies drop, that waaay to much. While the Inventory has nice sorting functions it is absolutely atrocious at the same time combined with the worst Inventory aspect I have ever seen in a trile A game:

    - The crafting takes around 2 seconds and I can only craft a single item at a time. It is absolutely madenening. It is not like something emersive that I see my chaacter craft an item or just do random craft stuff (like in Fallout 4) it is just sitting in that inventory menu and clicking that button every 2 seconds like an idiot. This is below any standards I have for any game. And while the crafting is annoying as hell it is also brokenly powerful, I can literaly create stuff out of nothing by crafting and disasambling and I can get infinitely money that way even with a very low player level, why is this a thing. On to of that armor and weapon stats are literally random when crafting items for no reason while I noticed that literally my armorstats change when I just restart the game.

    - Progression: Especially in RPG type leveling I like to get a feel for the numbers of damage, resistances and armor etc.. But the level progression and the way the stats scale is quite bad. In the begnning one has to change essentially the weapon and armor each 0 min because there are better ones but then when it slows down a bit I am already the God of Night City. In the early game the game allows the player to try to take it on high level enemies but these encounters are anything else than fun, fighting is either stunlocking enemies with granaes for 10 min nonstop or die instantly and trying to do it stealthy is a 50% gamble wheather one can finish this mission or, I tried to make a "Very High" danger mission to rescue a woman... only then to learn that as soon as I get to that woman a diolog starts and being detected is unovoidable. And I don't mean it is scripted, it just happens because the diolog was probably not there in the initial mission design to completyl break it. And why do I get a weapon that can shoot through literally any material and any thickness of it, it's just broken. Why do I get 90% crit chance and deal like 100 times damage on every shot is beyond me.

    - The Policee system: It is so bad and cheap that just removing police from the game entirely would be a better choice. I can not even ignore them completely since sometimes I don't stand in the magical "hositle area" or kill a random citizen.

    There are a few more for which I have no space to write about like cheap "life paths" and choices in general, game is about corporations but I have no ineractions with them, citizens are a facade, minimap navigating is trash, exploration without minimap..    … Expand
  14. DiArts
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    С большим уважением отношусь к творчеству CDPR, многие элементы дизайна на уровне искусства. У игры много проблем, но большинство технических решатся, а с сюжетными и геймплейными, скорее всего, придется жить.

    В сюжете проблема, на мой взгляд, в некой оторванности мейнквеста от побочек и изучения мира. Необязательные сюжетные задания, исследования города плохо вяжутся с основным сюжетом    С большим уважением отношусь к творчеству CDPR, многие элементы дизайна на уровне искусства. У игры много проблем, но большинство технических решатся, а с сюжетными и геймплейными, скорее всего, придется жить.

    В сюжете проблема, на мой взгляд, в некой оторванности мейнквеста от побочек и изучения мира. Необязательные сюжетные задания, исследования города плохо вяжутся с основным сюжетом о срочном поиске лечения главного героя - по крайней мере в первом прохождении. Хотя многие дополнительные сюжетки раскрывают и персонажей, и вселенную намного лучше основной цепочки заданий. Удивительно, что можно вот так проскипать большую часть контента, мыслей, отсылок, творчества и завершить игру.

    С технической точки зрения - типичный "первый блин". Пока что проблемы с взаимодействием с окружением, мало активностей в мире, плохая физика автомобилей, примитивные пешеходы. Но это нормально для первой игры студии про современный мир. Движок RED будет становиться лучше с каждой новой игрой, главное не останавливаться на достигнутом.    … Expand
  15. Vertreal
    Dec 24, 2020
    6
    My honest review after 70 hours of gameplay, mostly on patch 1.04. About 5-10 hours on 1.05 and a tiny little bit on 1.06:

    The game is still essentially an alpha build. Today, on PC, it may be transitioning into beta. On this site, as expected, you'll mostly find people giving the game a 10 or a 0, both of which are of course wrong and not representative of the game's true state.    My honest review after 70 hours of gameplay, mostly on patch 1.04. About 5-10 hours on 1.05 and a tiny little bit on 1.06:

    The game is still essentially an alpha build. Today, on PC, it may be transitioning into beta. On this site, as expected, you'll mostly find people giving the game a 10 or a 0, both of which are of course wrong and not representative of the game's true state.

    Either way, there are plenty of things the game does right, and just as many things it does wrong. For the purpose of this review I will solely be reviewing the game itself and not taking into consideration the dubious and outright fraudulent actions of CDPR. Pros and cons are listed below.

    Pros:
    - The narrative - that is, the writing of dialogue and portrayal of the lore throughout the main storyline and side quests. This is what carries the game.
    - A beautifully crafted and detailed Night City.
    - Character design and artstyle.
    - The natural, almost organic design of quest progression.
    - The graphics and implementation of ray tracing.
    - The audio design and soundscape.

    Cons:
    - While the story is what carries the game, it is painfully obvious that a lot of content has been cut which would have enriched it considerably. A prime example of this can be seen in the many sequences shown in trailers of V's and Jackie's escapades, presumably depicting how they grew close, only for NONE of that to be included in the game.
    - Incredibly mediocre gameplay. Shooting has very little impact and melee is gimmicky.
    - Poor to non-existent AI. Police system is atrocious, NPCs do not drive cars outside of scripted events in the main storyline, enemies are dumber than in certain games from the early 2000's.
    - UI is a cluttered mess and generally, the looter-shooter aspect of this game is very poorly implemented.
    - The character progression element is simultaneously cluttered, confusing, superficial and ultimately unrewarding except for a select few choices, which in turn break the game in your favor.
    - The lack of quality-of-life features such as any type of appearance changer is just sad.
    - The hundreds upon hundreds of bugs. Even on PC, this is no joke. For a game that relies heavily on immersion, you will find it broken every 10 minutes or so by a car exploding and launching into the sky. This is one of the tamer bugs, by the way as there are game-breaking ones as well.
    - EXTREMELY poor optimization. Ray tracing aside, there is absolutely no reason this game should run as poorly as it does on relatively high-end hardware.

    All in all, there is a foundation upon which this game can grow. Is that an excuse for a shoddy, early release? Absolutely not. Do I believe this game will one day be good? Perhaps.

    As it stands today, I cannot recommend Cyberpunk 2077. Perhaps in 1-2 years, when gameplay aspects and technical issues will have been refined and hammered out, the game will be what it was advertised to be. Free DLC, if made well, will certainly go a long way in addressing many of the game's issues and broken promises.

    Right now, on PC, patch 1.06, the game is a WEAK 6/10. Just barely crossing the line of mediocrity, mostly due to its narrative and aesthetics. Yes, it was overhyped, however, even with lower expectations it still under-delivered overall.

    Do NOT purchase this game unless you're fully aware of its shortcomings and still wish to play it.    … Expand
  16. PeetApiwat
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    Basically, I feel like I get fooled by the premise of the game, not the hype, not the bugs.

    From the marketing, I expect an immersive role-playing game. And because the origin of Cyberpunk is the pen & paper itself. Plus you can create "your V". There was so much hype on how detail you can customize your character (which turns out to be not much). You can choose your "Life path", you    Basically, I feel like I get fooled by the premise of the game, not the hype, not the bugs.

    From the marketing, I expect an immersive role-playing game. And because the origin of Cyberpunk is the pen & paper itself. Plus you can create "your V". There was so much hype on how detail you can customize your character (which turns out to be not much). You can choose your "Life path", you can live in the "Night City". But that doesn't matter because;

    "V": - although you can customize your look, you won't feel that you play "your V". The dialog choices are just different ways of a preset "V" would say. Don't get me wrong, choices still are made to determine the outcome, but that is it. Look at Mass Effect, Fallout, Outer Worlds, the dialog choices in those games are not only there to pick the outcome, but they also reflect the different personalities of how you want to role-play your character. And by the way, there is no way you can change your appearance after starting the game. I mean "really"? We are in a Cyberpunk world where getting a human enhancement is like going to a dentist. Even in 1890 Red Dead Redemption 2 you at least have a barber...

    "Life path" - This is just an addition to the point in the dialog above. Dialog base on the background will pop up in conversation to sometimes help the situation, but that's about it. So, I guess the real difference is the short first part of the start of the game.

    "Night City" - I love how it looks. The density. The art and style. But there is just "nothing to do". I know there are loads of side quests. But as I mentioned that I expect the "role-playing", I thought there will be more of a "Night City activities" to do. (Like at least you have hunting/fishing in a fake RPG game like RDR2).

    So, if this game would make itself clearer that it will be Wicherpunk 2077. I would not feel let down. Because in Witcher you know you will play as "Geralt". You cannot change his look. The dialog choices are what Geralt would say, just in different ways. You'd know it is a softcore role-playing game that focuses on the story and skills rather than role-plays, and that's nothing wrong with that. That's why Witcher 3 is a great game.

    Finally, the good? Basically, the thing that Witcher 3 has done, a good story. That's why I won't rate this as negative. If I didn't get fool by the premise and all the media, it would get a better rating from me. So from this point on, CD Project Red really establish their view of "what is RPG" according to them, and I won't get fooled again.    … Expand
  17. Reos44
    Dec 14, 2020
    7
    This game like dying light. I like it. This game contains Good action
    Good scenes
    Good level design
    Good graphics

    Bad AI
    Bad bugs
    Bad main stories
    Bad optimisation
  18. TheRageN7
    Dec 11, 2020
    5
    Current state. Disappointing. No excuses. Not ready don't bring it out and don't hide your product. We all love you cd projekt but this was mishandled. The game atmosphere music and story are amazing...when and IF it works.
  19. blackmoondog
    Dec 11, 2020
    7
    Reviews either by paid-for critics or just everyday idiots seem to be the only visible reviews these days. Marketing and expectations really ruined this game. even for me, and then I took a step back and marveled at the parts of the game that really shine. I would say ultimately this game is like playing an early access game, so that being said- look at games like No Man's Sky whichReviews either by paid-for critics or just everyday idiots seem to be the only visible reviews these days. Marketing and expectations really ruined this game. even for me, and then I took a step back and marveled at the parts of the game that really shine. I would say ultimately this game is like playing an early access game, so that being said- look at games like No Man's Sky which completely pulled itself out of one of the worst holes ever dug by over-ambition and bad marketing.

    In short I'd say don't buy, yet, but also don't get on here and give the game a "0". Press for more from the developers, and ideally they'll deliver a more worthwhile experience.    … Expand
  20. tonney
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    Do you like a well written story with relatable characters? Get this game.
    Do you like a good, versatile RPG game with an interesting, simulated open world? Chances are, you won't be satisfied.
    This game should have been a linear action game, just like Half Life. Because it's the only thing it does very well. Great cinematic choices in 1st person. Great graphics, lovely 'Blade Runner'    Do you like a well written story with relatable characters? Get this game.
    Do you like a good, versatile RPG game with an interesting, simulated open world? Chances are, you won't be satisfied.

    This game should have been a linear action game, just like Half Life. Because it's the only thing it does very well. Great cinematic choices in 1st person. Great graphics, lovely 'Blade Runner' visuals, lighting. Thick atmospheric fog and neons flooding from every corner. You easily get lost in this techno fueled world of lights and grimy alleys.

    Fun story, great characters, writing and voice acting. CBP managed to successfully pull off the almost photo realistic faces and they're quite believable, expressive, charismatic.

    Here's some assorted thoughts after 20+ hours of gameplay:

    - Exploration of the seemingly big world is quickly flattened by the realisation it's very shallow. It's visually impressive but there's not much to do or discover. The city is quite complex with a variety of distinct districts and themes. I was missing the abundance of 'micro stories' Fallout 4 is packed with. There are so many interesting areas in CBP where I was excited to lurk through and anticipating some small details to make exploration worth it. Sadly, very often you're left blueballed with what it could be or could hide. I explored the desert areas called Badlands looking for some small stories and hidden gems. There were some but very little. It's just too little of any interesting content. I wish they hired more story and level designers to fill in the desolate or unsued parts of the world with tiny things to make the world more exciting. There's tons of great areas waiting to be utilised and reward the nosy and curious players.

    - For a company that never did car games the driving is quite good. The cars feel heavy and surprisingly responsive but just a little bit too drifty. It's hard to keep the car on the road at times. It's fun how differently they all handle.

    - Gunplay, I would place somewhere between Fallout 4 and COD. Classic weapons firing regular rounds feel responsive and they all sound very punchy. Something you may have noticed in RDR2. They have an audible thump, you can almost feel the kickback. Recoil looks believable. Power (energy) weapons also feel and sound strong, although I very rarely tried those.

    - Melee brawls and weapon fights feel OK. Definitely better than Skyrim. It doesn't feel too floaty. It's generally very difficult to implement a satisfactory (in feeling) animations and believable impact of weapons in 1st person. I think they made a good job, for what it's worth. I think my personal favourite in this matter is still Condemned: Criminal Origins or Dying Light where melee weapons really felt heavy.

    - Side quests is something I love in open world RPG games (more on RPG aspects in a bit). I often dose myself with nice a balance of main story and side missions to slowly progress and get lost in a universe. I never stress either. I relish. Unfortunately most side quests feel underdeveloped or just plainly half-assed. I think CBP tried to implement the Ubisoft formula for these and there's really quite a lot of those scattered across the world. Well, although there's plenty and the repetition is not my main concern, they often feel unfinished. Some of these quests sound great at the beginning when an NPC is letting you know what's their problem but after you do it you're often left somewhere in the world with a quick call from them saying 'ok thanks' or worse - nothing really comes out of it. It's hard to put a finger on it. It basically feel often detached and underwhelming.

    - Cars. I really cannot see any point in purchasing any vehicles the game really pushes you to do through some side mission characters. There are no real chases in this game. There is absolutely no need to own a faster/bigger/heavier/offroad car or motorcycle in this game. It's now very clear that CDPR didn't manage to implement AI for traffic, too. All cars in the world follow rails, fixed routes hardcoded into the road networks to provide the bare necessity of traffic flow. It's what you've seen in GTA in the 1997. IF it works, the cars will stop at an obstacle (a car or person only, mind you. Drivers won't stop for debris, barriers or any dynamic object that might be in the way) and just compliantly wait until it disappears. Driving in this game feels unnecessary. Oh and the cars have a 'Stash' once you approach the trunk. Cool thing but I see no use for that whatsoever. In this game you can carry ridiculous amount of stuff on your person.

    - RPG. I think it's worse than what a lot of people say about Fallout 4. CDPR promised tons of branches, choices (I roll my eyes when people romanticise about New Vegas' 'Choices and consequences!'. It's partly true. New Vegas is some kind of a benchmark but it also doesn't give you THAT many options. I digress.). It has very little to do with RPG. It's a shooter.    … Expand
  21. Scaryone_5
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    This game does have its fair share of bugs but it doesn’t require the hate it’s garnished it’s a brilliant game poorly executed and probably by feb next will be what most ppl expected
  22. Fabulouswow
    Dec 11, 2020
    6
    First of all, this game haven't met my expectations. Especially with all these technic problems and lack of a bit of gameplay. Actually, the optimisation is a huge problem for this game at the moment. This has to get fixed asap for taking player's heart. In the other hand, gameplay is a little weird, not gonna lie. Every second you are doing looting, which it starts to become veryFirst of all, this game haven't met my expectations. Especially with all these technic problems and lack of a bit of gameplay. Actually, the optimisation is a huge problem for this game at the moment. This has to get fixed asap for taking player's heart. In the other hand, gameplay is a little weird, not gonna lie. Every second you are doing looting, which it starts to become very irritiating and annoying. After the first 5 hours, when you continue looting and checking which item is better, it starts to be like "MY GOD. NOT AGAIN !" The rest is good.

    Shortly, The game potential is very good. Better than the most of games out there, for real. It even has the game of the year potential, but not with this technic problems and looting problem. If they are going to fix it, then I am fine about it. I can wait a few more months to play a proper game that "Works just fine".    … Expand
  23. wawewa
    Dec 11, 2020
    5
    Who put a storyline in my looter shooter? Yeah... thats all it is. Its so sad its beyond comprehension. This game needed AT LEAST one a half year more in the pipe. Then the bugfixing should haver started. From a design perspective its completely bankrupt. This game doesnt have the right to be an open world game. There is nothing to do in this larger then life city besides running around,Who put a storyline in my looter shooter? Yeah... thats all it is. Its so sad its beyond comprehension. This game needed AT LEAST one a half year more in the pipe. Then the bugfixing should haver started. From a design perspective its completely bankrupt. This game doesnt have the right to be an open world game. There is nothing to do in this larger then life city besides running around, killing gangs and looting **** Like soooo much **** The funny thing is i like the combat. But its just not enough, im sorry. I want to immerse myself in the gameworld when i play games. This is probably the least immersive game ive ever played. The music, visuals are all ther, but it has no soul.… Expand
  24. Reggie403
    Dec 11, 2020
    5
    This is not a 2020 AAA open world game. AI is terrible. City is dead and completely non interactive. Its clear this game needed another year in development at least. For shame.
  25. JosePepowner
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    TLDR: The story to me is alright, however, there are many bugs and many over sights. I am enjoying the game quite heavily tbh and it is so damn close to being something amazing. I really hope they pull a No Mans Sky on this because if they do this game could be great.

    If this game wins any game of the year BS awards just know it means nothing. As great as it could be in it's current    TLDR: The story to me is alright, however, there are many bugs and many over sights. I am enjoying the game quite heavily tbh and it is so damn close to being something amazing. I really hope they pull a No Mans Sky on this because if they do this game could be great.

    If this game wins any game of the year BS awards just know it means nothing. As great as it could be in it's current state. It ain't worth more than an average.    … Expand
  26. Adam20
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    I'm playing this on a PC at the moment using an i5 processor and and RTX 3080 GPU, 16GB DDR4 System memory. Here's the break down of the good and bad:

    The good: - Engaging story and characters - Gameplay is ok - Lots of variety of missions, mission design is generally good - Superb lighting and ray tracing The bad: - Performance issues due to bugs - Poor texturing and    I'm playing this on a PC at the moment using an i5 processor and and RTX 3080 GPU, 16GB DDR4 System memory. Here's the break down of the good and bad:

    The good:
    - Engaging story and characters
    - Gameplay is ok
    - Lots of variety of missions, mission design is generally good
    - Superb lighting and ray tracing

    The bad:
    - Performance issues due to bugs
    - Poor texturing and environmental detail, including your personal character model.
    - Not as dense and in depth as I expected, if they're claiming this is a GTA killer, please tell that person(s) to sit down lol
    - Witcher 3 is way better in every department.    … Expand
  27. KatoTheWolf
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    Game it’s pretty good when It comes to story, the open world and quests but the graphic glitches and the bugs really ruin the experience a lot of the time, I’ve played this on series x and pc and it’s really disappointing on the series x, it’s pretty blurry most of the time and if I want too get ok visuals I have to play in quality mode which is at 30fps... 30fps in any 1st person shooterGame it’s pretty good when It comes to story, the open world and quests but the graphic glitches and the bugs really ruin the experience a lot of the time, I’ve played this on series x and pc and it’s really disappointing on the series x, it’s pretty blurry most of the time and if I want too get ok visuals I have to play in quality mode which is at 30fps... 30fps in any 1st person shooter is unplayable for me so I have to take 1080p 60fps on the new Xbox series x which is unacceptable!!… Expand
  28. KungMartin
    Dec 13, 2020
    6
    (Old review from Dec 12th) As a long time lurker on metacritic I finally felt obliged to register for this game. This game is by no means bad. Its not a 1 or a 2 or even a 4, but neither is it anywhere near the level I think most of us were expecting. This feels like a game that just couldn't deliver what it promised, probably because of too high  ambitions from the developers. And(Old review from Dec 12th) As a long time lurker on metacritic I finally felt obliged to register for this game. This game is by no means bad. Its not a 1 or a 2 or even a 4, but neither is it anywhere near the level I think most of us were expecting. This feels like a game that just couldn't deliver what it promised, probably because of too high  ambitions from the developers. And possibly even too high of a workload.

    I'm going to keep it short. Graphically this game is a VERY mixed bag. At times it looks borderline CGI, but in other areas it can look unbelievably flat and almost like a ps2 era game with a 'shiny filter'. With that out of the way:

    The story starts off strong but then I feel like it gradually just loses pace and starts feeling uninspiring. Mind you, I'm only about 10 hours in and I've done quite a bit of side stuff (here's to hoping it gets better). The combat feels very clunky and more irritating than it feels fun. AI is TERRIBLE most of the time. They'll literally just stand around at times. And they are absolute bullet sponges, borderline frustrating at times. I understand the combat has rpg elements and has to factor in hit points, armor, resistances, etc, but it still feels a bit too much when I have to empty a clip to take down a regular enemy at close range. It just doesn't feel satisfying to take'em down - more like a chore that you just wanna get over and done with.

    And this is all not to mention the cavalcade of bugs present even in the latest 1.4 update. It's an absolute buggy mess. Not quite game breaking, but borderline. Over all this just feels like a messy above-average game. Which is a shame because I LOVED the Witcher 3 and I love CDPR. And I really tried to love this game too - but I just think its average after about 10 hours of playtime.    … Expand
  29. davidtriune
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    the gameplay is your basic RPG shooter (it doesn't add anything new and is a mix between fallout 4, deus ex, and GTA). the story is deeper than most games and the dialogue is complex, but very depressing. if you like depressing games, you'll like this. There's also a lot of bugs but they're mostly visual. I had some game crashes and sudden deaths from glitches though
  30. shiyoushi
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    I'm playing Cyberpunk on Series X, about 30 hours in now and so far I'm having a lot of fun. The graphics on performance mode are pretty good, on the highest graphics settings its beautiful but only runs at 30fps, so I'm playing performance mode. A few minor bugs so far such as clipping through walls, once I jumped up to grab onto a shipping container and went flying backwards across theI'm playing Cyberpunk on Series X, about 30 hours in now and so far I'm having a lot of fun. The graphics on performance mode are pretty good, on the highest graphics settings its beautiful but only runs at 30fps, so I'm playing performance mode. A few minor bugs so far such as clipping through walls, once I jumped up to grab onto a shipping container and went flying backwards across the map to the other side of Watson for some reason. The AI is a bit meh, sometimes getting in a fight by will aggro EVERY possible opponent in the area and will come running to fight even though they shouldn't have been involved. And the pathing for NPC vehicles is terrible, park a car in the middle of the street and get out, and cars will just bank up behind you. Come on CDPR, that's basic stuff, GTA V is 8 years old and does better than that!
    Needs a lot more polish, perhaps like with Witcher 3 a couple of years worth of patches will turn it into the game we wish it was at launch.    … Expand
  31. GanciaLimon
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    It's a good game but has a lot of issues and bugs. I had several crashes in the first hours of the game. If all the bugs were fixed, I think it will be a great game.
  32. Kellykiller
    Dec 14, 2020
    7
    I don't know what's going on here. Some people here talk about how people with RTX 20xx and new CPUs can't play properly in 1080p. That is just **** I have a 1080 (not TI) and an old I7 4790K, and I can play in presets medium in 1440p smoothly with 30-40 fps. Yes the game is currently not perfect, bugs and glitches are present (decisively too much for a game that was in development for soI don't know what's going on here. Some people here talk about how people with RTX 20xx and new CPUs can't play properly in 1080p. That is just **** I have a 1080 (not TI) and an old I7 4790K, and I can play in presets medium in 1440p smoothly with 30-40 fps. Yes the game is currently not perfect, bugs and glitches are present (decisively too much for a game that was in development for so long). However, this is nothing that will not be fixed in 1-2 months. Witcher 3 wasn't great in the beginning either, but nobody talks about that anymore. People who say something like "worst game ever", I really don't know what to say. I think yes, some just hate to jump on the hate-train with. There shows once again that players often know only 2 extreme. 10/10 or 0/10. like with Last uf us Part 2. you may not like some political decisions there, but no one can tell me that it is a bad game. The sales figures are proof of that. If the game is bug-free, the rating will be corrected upwards.… Expand
  33. Mir_Vipus
    Dec 23, 2020
    6
    In a way, Cyberpunk 2077 is like Night City: A promise that, in reality, never amounted to anything but a lie. An illusion, which seems real enough to trick you or, at least, make you keep playing.

    Maybe in a few months (or years), when the bugs are fixed, performance is optimized and several game mechanics are rebalanced and / or completely reformulated, then *maybe* Cyberpunk will    In a way, Cyberpunk 2077 is like Night City: A promise that, in reality, never amounted to anything but a lie. An illusion, which seems real enough to trick you or, at least, make you keep playing.

    Maybe in a few months (or years), when the bugs are fixed, performance is optimized and several game mechanics are rebalanced and / or completely reformulated, then *maybe* Cyberpunk will come close to what was promised. Right now, the moment that truly matters, it is an incomplete game and a big disappointment.

    Unless you are a big fan of the cyberpunk genre and can't wait to experience the story of V and Johnny Silverhand, but also have a lot of patience to deal with various bugs that will constantly take you out of the experience, I recommend completely avoiding the game and hoping it'll (luckily) be in a better state in the future. If not, at least it will be cheaper.    … Expand
  34. maximkuzmin
    Dec 24, 2020
    5
    This is an amazing job of developers and artists (10 out of 10), destroyed completely by poor management and misguiding marketing (0 out of 10), so we have a honest 5 in the end.
    I was lucky enough to play the game on more or less capable PC and to avoid game breaking bugs, but even if we forget about all the bugs, performance issues and so on, we have dozens of problems, from promised    This is an amazing job of developers and artists (10 out of 10), destroyed completely by poor management and misguiding marketing (0 out of 10), so we have a honest 5 in the end.
    I was lucky enough to play the game on more or less capable PC and to avoid game breaking bugs, but even if we forget about all the bugs, performance issues and so on, we have dozens of problems, from promised gameplay variability to terribly hollow open world.
    Bugs will be fixed someday, but will anybody add variability to more then only one quest mission in whole game? Don't think so.
    Destroyed studio reputation and disappointment of the year for me.    … Expand
  35. Vaynn
    Jan 4, 2021
    5
    The game has a really good story, great characters and a beautiful world... but that's about it. The rest seems to be really mediocre. The open world activities are uninspired, the shooting feels clunky, the customization options are very limited and the AI of some NPCs (like... all the pedestrians, cops and drivers in the game) is taken straight from a PS2 game. And to top it all off -The game has a really good story, great characters and a beautiful world... but that's about it. The rest seems to be really mediocre. The open world activities are uninspired, the shooting feels clunky, the customization options are very limited and the AI of some NPCs (like... all the pedestrians, cops and drivers in the game) is taken straight from a PS2 game. And to top it all off - the amount of bugs would put even Bethesda to shame. Based on trailers and gameplay videos published since 2018 I expected a groundbreaking masterpiece, a true RPG sandbox where my choices matter and where I can immerse myself in a living open world, Sadly I got a good linear story in an empty husk called Night City.… Expand
  36. MadclownJack
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    Painfully average in every aspect. Now i get the whole marketing frenzy. Since the game feels severely dated and offers nothing much new, they had to make due by LYING.

    The world is open, but empty. NPCs keep asking if they know the PC, and that's it. That's the interaction. You can also pet animals. Wow. You can participate in shootouts throughout the city, to no overall effect    Painfully average in every aspect. Now i get the whole marketing frenzy. Since the game feels severely dated and offers nothing much new, they had to make due by LYING.

    The world is open, but empty. NPCs keep asking if they know the PC, and that's it. That's the interaction. You can also pet animals. Wow.

    You can participate in shootouts throughout the city, to no overall effect except that you can loot the dead.

    Weapons are mostly interesting in design, but the gunplay is a bit boring. it is a Looter-Shooter, but maybe shouldn't have been. I think a better effect would've been made, just keeping the game a standard FPS with tiny RPG elements, like Deus Ex or System Shock. Also, the driving mode feels unbalanced, in need of a fix.

    I'm not gonna knock the graphics, it's all good. But it's not core for good gameplay, so when the gameplay is dull and repetitive, the cool, edgy graphics feel wasted. Same goes with audio. Not a huge fan of the whole "futuristic beats" either. Too grating, distractingly aggressive, all the time.

    CD ProjektRed literally TORTURED their employees with constant crunch, for FIVE YEARS, just to get THIS result? That is a literal effin shame. What a waste of an obviously competent workforce.

    Mediocre.    … Expand
  37. Drakhe
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    It's an innovative game but it lacks to deliver the ideas that were presented in advertising, they don't go further on it and just stand as that an idea or concept that didn't develop or have been finished. The music is lacking you would expect more environment music that fits the action or even the cyberpunk genre but no is just 2020 mix electro **** and that goes for all the radioIt's an innovative game but it lacks to deliver the ideas that were presented in advertising, they don't go further on it and just stand as that an idea or concept that didn't develop or have been finished. The music is lacking you would expect more environment music that fits the action or even the cyberpunk genre but no is just 2020 mix electro **** and that goes for all the radio stations. Animations lack in the environment and you cant even interact with people like it was advertised years ago, performance its ok on PC with some bugs here and there but not polished at all, you see a pool table well you expect NPCs playing no they are just standing there watching each other, you see an arcade? nope, you can't play it, pretty damn lazy is what it is even with all the delays you can notice this game was rushed and scrapped a lot of times.
    Love the game because of the potential on it not how the game is at his current state 6/10.    … Expand
  38. striga
    Feb 4, 2021
    6
    A lot of work went into the open world, but not the right kind of work. Things look amazing and aside from a lot of superficial bugs, it ran pretty well for me (I played on a highish-end PC). However, the open world was quite simply boring. They added hundreds of little microquests on the map, but they consist of killing 5-7 guys sitting around a car or a flaming barrel or container overA lot of work went into the open world, but not the right kind of work. Things look amazing and aside from a lot of superficial bugs, it ran pretty well for me (I played on a highish-end PC). However, the open world was quite simply boring. They added hundreds of little microquests on the map, but they consist of killing 5-7 guys sitting around a car or a flaming barrel or container over and over and over again.

    I decided to clean up the map of all these quests and then focus on the main story, and poof, the main story was over before it got started. I later saw that this was by design because their analytics showed not enough people finished Witcher 3 to their liking. What kind of stupid logic is that?

    I didn't follow this game pre-release, so I didn't feel the absence of promised features; I just got a boring open-world with a good main story which feels about the length of a Call of Duty game. Terribly disappointing.    … Expand
  39. Zenzukai
    Feb 11, 2021
    5
    Its love hate with this game. Many great features and scenarios, many bugged. This game is great for what it is, it could be a lot better.
  40. Theeangryvegan
    Apr 20, 2021
    5
    Over hyped and aggressively mediocre, just an all around bland game and experience. The dark cyberpunk atmosphere is pretty spot on and the game play is just okay, nothing ground breaking. I've heard they have been fixing issues, but for me the ship has sailed, other games have done cyberpunk way better. Your mileage may vary, but I got bored pretty quick and all the random bugs justOver hyped and aggressively mediocre, just an all around bland game and experience. The dark cyberpunk atmosphere is pretty spot on and the game play is just okay, nothing ground breaking. I've heard they have been fixing issues, but for me the ship has sailed, other games have done cyberpunk way better. Your mileage may vary, but I got bored pretty quick and all the random bugs just sucked away all the fun. They should have waited a few more years to release it and got it nice and polished first... 5/10 and that's being generous.… Expand
  41. AcerolaOrion
    Dec 14, 2020
    5
    Disappointingly mediocre. I finished the game after around 40 hours playtime - did almost all major sidequests.
    Aside from the weak gameplay with some very poor UI choices and poor controls especially on PC i have 1 major complaint that really made me drop the score.
    Almost none of the choices you make during the story matter at all. All the endings are basically the same. Nothing you    Disappointingly mediocre. I finished the game after around 40 hours playtime - did almost all major sidequests.
    Aside from the weak gameplay with some very poor UI choices and poor controls especially on PC i have 1 major complaint that really made me drop the score.

    Almost none of the choices you make during the story matter at all. All the endings are basically the same. Nothing you do changes that. Everything the game tells you "matters" actually has absolutely no effect. Its kind of crazy really. [Link omitted per site rules]

    The only mission in the game where your choices affect results is the one they showed in the demo in 2018. Thats the only one. Absolutely unexcuseable for a game that has narrative as its only strong point.

    My recommendation: Go watch a good movie instead.    … Expand
  42. Scharamantis
    Dec 14, 2020
    7
    Played on: PC, Medium graphic settings, GTX 980 , SSD, 32GB RAM, i7-6700K CPU

    Played as: Female V, Nomad, Body / Assault build, Judy romance, did a lot of side missions, all of those which were not bugged. I've played on normal difficulty. Most of the side missions and the main story finished in about 42 hours. STORY & SIDE QUESTS: The main story is fine, but on the level of other    Played on: PC, Medium graphic settings, GTX 980 , SSD, 32GB RAM, i7-6700K CPU

    Played as: Female V, Nomad, Body / Assault build, Judy romance, did a lot of side missions, all of those which were not bugged. I've played on normal difficulty. Most of the side missions and the main story finished in about 42 hours.

    STORY & SIDE QUESTS: The main story is fine, but on the level of other AAA games, nothing above it like Mass Effect was for me. I don't need to save the world in-game, but I've missed some depth and atmosphere during the play. A good amount of dialogues were just ok. The decision selection was low, but maybe with another playthrough, I'll change my mind. But it felt railroaded a lot. Rather pushing you to the storyteller's story than your own. At some moments I was asking, why I haven't been given an option that felt more appropriate. There were very good parts and very blend parts too. The main story did not get into my skin so I would proclaim it as breathtaking. It was good, and still worth buying and go through tho.
    There is one cinematics where you will see your character. One, which is a pity, and somehow I have a feeling that there was planned for more, as one of the bugs was actually showing your face during conversation and the model was moving lips..but somehow they probably decided to retract from that idea....The photo mode is saving the day here, but is it enough? I don't need to play through all being cinematics, but it somehow adds up to the atmosphere feelings for me. Romance options, I've expected more.
    What bothered me a lot was the overwhelming push for all the jobs, phonecalls overlapping, rush, push...it didn't felt comfortable. I would prefer to experience a more chilled way to receive quests, rather than feeling like a target of Fixers Telecompany.

    CHARACTER CREATION: Biggest disappointment for me is Character Creation. It's detailed but to an extent. As for body types, it failed my expectations. Having a badass woman beating a huge bodybuilder with her fists, while looking like a skinny top model did not add to my immersion. Mixing voices and adding penises to females feel odd rather than exciting, especially due to lack of customization.

    THE OPEN WORLD, LOOT & CRAFTING: 1st person is good. The night city looks great visually, but somehow you can't interact too much with it. Sure there are shops, various NPCs which...just walk and don't want to talk to you. It feels just fake sadly. Do we really need open worlds in RPGs? I rather have an engaging, in-depth and epic story to play than playing GTA5 in the future. It feels like GTA5, better in some aspects, worse in others. Tons of loot. I was somehow hoping that there will be more meaningful and less loot, you will spend a lot of time with loot management and it kept me distracted from playing and enjoying the story. It also felt odd that you can loot basically everything in front of everyone without consequences. Crafting...mhm...didn't use much, because with so much loot there was not much point. All is expensive a lot, didn't have a chance to buy all while completing a lot of side missions. The economy isn't as bad as in GTA5, but not the greatest. The apartment is useless as well as other loot. GTA5 beats Cyberpunk in here.

    COMBAT & PROGRESSION: Combat is ok and fun, similar to Ghost Recon. It was fun, AI is dumb. The skill tree and the progression is good and gives you a chance to make a unique playstyle, although more points wouldn't be bad.

    MUSIC: Music and sound is great.

    BUGS: I am sure you've heard and read a lot about them...only a few times it broke my immersion, a few times gave me a good laugh. But PC is tolerable I guess? Folks with PS4 must be raging madly from what I've seen. For PC it is on verge of release, for Consoles, it should never been rushed like this. Especially with the motto: "It releases when it's ready."

    FINAL WORDS: *shrugs* I would still recommend this game on PC. It's better than most of the crap released last year.
    Somehow I am mad, that all the effort, all the years...for this? It is subjective...it is still a good game, just with that overhype...I've expected more, sorry CD Projekt.
    As expectations were much higher. Sadly CD Projekt damaged its own reputation with poor management decisions and every future game from this company should be not pre-ordered.    … Expand
  43. Averius
    Dec 11, 2020
    5
    EN:
    Decent game, which has a god-awful performance. It's on par or even worse than Fallout: New Vegas was on release and Fallout was in production only for a year, not for 8 years as Cyberpunk was. It also has a great amount of visual glitches, which can turn a dramatic scene into comic one.
    Wait for a GOTY and sales, this product doesn't deserve your money. RUS: Потенциально    EN:
    Decent game, which has a god-awful performance. It's on par or even worse than Fallout: New Vegas was on release and Fallout was in production only for a year, not for 8 years as Cyberpunk was. It also has a great amount of visual glitches, which can turn a dramatic scene into comic one.
    Wait for a GOTY and sales, this product doesn't deserve your money.

    RUS:
    Потенциально неплохая игра, но она настолько плохо оптимизирована, что Нью Вегас на её фоне смотрится образцом производительности, при том что Вегас сделали за год, а не за 8 лет. К тому же в игре куча визуальных багов и артефактов, которые могут превратить драматичный момент в цирк с конями. Лучше подождите полного издания и возьмите со скидкой - поляки конечно получат свою прибыль, но следующую их игру я точно не буду брать на старте, что и вам советую.    … Expand
  44. nanito444
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    The game is an amazing one, but there were a ton of bugs that took away from the experience. The story is very well developed, but I thought the story was short and unfulfilling. The AI are just dumb, basic, annoying, and can be awkward. The AI are not complex like promised, but they do make the cutie seem lively. The game is beautiful on PC, but the game looks unfinished at areas. TheThe game is an amazing one, but there were a ton of bugs that took away from the experience. The story is very well developed, but I thought the story was short and unfulfilling. The AI are just dumb, basic, annoying, and can be awkward. The AI are not complex like promised, but they do make the cutie seem lively. The game is beautiful on PC, but the game looks unfinished at areas. The game lied about being able to really explore the city. You can't really go in to buildings, buy houses, customize body parts, customize cars, and it's lacking depth to the whole customizing. Game lied about it's features and the more I played it, the more I was feeling let down. Game needs more time to develop it further and the game felt extremely rushed.

    The police system is stupid! How come they pop out and behind you. Cops aren't hard to loose and is too easy.    … Expand
  45. mrpavlikov
    Jun 23, 2022
    7
    Still buggy as of 2022 and performance on GeForce 2070 maxQ is not okay. Other than that it is above average game, not a masterpiece.
  46. compaysegundo
    May 27, 2022
    5
    The game is a mediocre action shooter in an "open world" which is meaningless and just a non-interactive scenery. Reminds me of Mafia/Rockstar titles. At the beginning the city impresses, later it is boring as the scenery is more or less ever the same. The main story(ies) is the only interesting part and this story itself is mediocre. Fights don't feel satisfying, sneaking isThe game is a mediocre action shooter in an "open world" which is meaningless and just a non-interactive scenery. Reminds me of Mafia/Rockstar titles. At the beginning the city impresses, later it is boring as the scenery is more or less ever the same. The main story(ies) is the only interesting part and this story itself is mediocre. Fights don't feel satisfying, sneaking is underwhelming. The game is pretty linar while you are forced to repeat boring grindgigs to make money. Cyberpunk 2077 is a bad FarCry title in a Cyberpunk setting with better story than Ubisoft titles. A bit like a Mafia title. For CDPR and the Hype it is more than underwhelming.… Expand
  47. mugsy
    Jan 30, 2021
    6
    This is a review of 1.06 version

    Graphics - 8/10. A good looking game in general, however the graphics are not consistent everywhere. They often look average or straight up bad, especially during free roam outside of scripted missions. Also, there is a lot of popup and plenty of situations where high quality model of an object doesn't manage to load in time when you approach it.    This is a review of 1.06 version

    Graphics - 8/10. A good looking game in general, however the graphics are not consistent everywhere. They often look average or straight up bad, especially during free roam outside of scripted missions. Also, there is a lot of popup and plenty of situations where high quality model of an object doesn't manage to load in time when you approach it. Animations are pretty stiff outside of scripted cutscenes. Also lots of graphical glitches like t-posing NPCs, clipping, or animations freaking out.

    Story - 7/10, however it's very linear. Your dialogue choices don't matter 99% of the time outside of few times when you get to decide the ending. Characters are decent and Keanu Reeves character turned out pretty badass and convincing. His 3D model looks pretty disappointing though, especially considering he's the most important character and highlight of the game. I would expect better.

    User interface is all over the place. Pretty confusing. The fact that you have plenty of junk to pick up on every step doesn't help. I ended up collecting everything and then selling stuff if I ended up overweight. I picked the best armor and weapon based on one statistic. Didn't bother with modifications etc. Didn't buy anything, just used random stuff that I picked up. And I completed the game easily.

    Gunplay - average

    Vehicle handling - bad. Vehicles handle worse than Watch Dogs. Much worse.

    Physics - bad. They are 2005 tier. Car crashes have no weight to them, like cars are made of rubber and the behavior is often ridiculous, like you crash into a car and you drive under it. And running over pedestrians feels like they are weightless. Also it glitches out, pedestrians and objects often go inside your car and you drag them with you,

    AI - dumb. NPCs have barely any AI. And enemies go straight under your gun. They also get stuck all the time and you can shoot them easily. And there are NO police chases. It's not programmed. Police just appears out of nowhere.

    World - city is decently sized however it looks basically the same everywhere you go. There is very little variety. Pretty boring. I'm not a big fan of the art direction. And very little to do there. Those who say that this is the biggest and most immersive and alive world in video games are straight up LYING. It has literally nothing on games like GTA, Watch Dogs or RDR2. Pedestrian and car density is good enough, however since they have no AI they feel artificial and just there for decoration. Also, pedestrian and car density drops to nearly zero when you drive a vehicle, but it goes back once you're on foot.

    Overall, if you expect a detailed and immersive open world sandbox action game like GTA, Watch Dogs or RDR, you will be very disappointed. And if you expect a detailed RPG where every choice you make matters, you will be disapointed as well. This game does bad in both.

    This game is a big disappointment considering it's budget, years in production and how much hype it generated. CDPR tried to throw down the gauntlet to Rockstar and Ubisoft, but they failed miserably.

    This game definitely doesn't deserve a score higher than 8/10, no matter how you look at it. The whole game feels plasticky, wonky and unpolished/unfinished if I had to describe it shortly. I personally gave it a 6 because I'm not a hyped CDPR fanboy and I see things as what they are. It was not a HORRIBLE experience, but far far away from a masterpiece. All 9 and 10 scores are ridiculous.    … Expand
  48. PinkSquid
    Dec 11, 2020
    5
    Buggy as hell, barely runs on any platform, falsely advertised as a genre defining game, atrocious AI. The list goes on. Literally the only new thing they’ve done in this game is give you dick options...

    The story is nice though and most of the characters are fun.
  49. KARF4GEN
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    К несчастью хита не получилось. Ее будут покупать и хвалить, но все сайд-квесты прямая отсылка к квесту с козлицей, который Геральт получает от Ворожея.
    Там шутят про то, что не буду же я тебя заставлять бегать туда-сюда, а вот в КП2077 игрока только этим и будут заставлять заниматься.
    Вопросов по основной сюжетной ветке нет - она в порядке, но поляки это столько лет делали? Сама по    К несчастью хита не получилось. Ее будут покупать и хвалить, но все сайд-квесты прямая отсылка к квесту с козлицей, который Геральт получает от Ворожея.
    Там шутят про то, что не буду же я тебя заставлять бегать туда-сюда, а вот в КП2077 игрока только этим и будут заставлять заниматься.
    Вопросов по основной сюжетной ветке нет - она в порядке, но поляки это столько лет делали?
    Сама по себе она выглядит билдом, который собирали год-полтора, без оптимизации и с костылями из нереальзованных идей.
    В проект ввалили 300 миллионов долларов и ему будет очень сложно окупиться быстро.
    Тем более с такой оптимизацией, которая просто не позволяет выйти на широкую аудиторию. Так как в эпоху пандемии не у всех есть 600 долларов на новую видеокарту, а то и свыше тысячи на всю новую платформу. Про консоли говорить не буду. На пс4 она ужасна, а пс5 у меня нет.
    Купить потом с патчами и может быть лучшими драйверами.
    Сейчас просто нереально сложно играть на 20-50 ФПС с случайными дропами.    … Expand
  50. AlexTrask
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    Devo dire che mi ritengo abbastanza deluso da CD Project, il gioco ha potenzialità enormi, ma sembra una beta, in cui la storia è stata fatta, ma in tutto il resto mancano cose o ci sono problemi enormi, potrei stare qui tutto il giorno ad elencare bug o mancanze veramente stupide:
    Bug grafici come se piovesse, davvero, uno ogni 5 minuti, alcuni anche gravi e permanenti, io ho le immagini    Devo dire che mi ritengo abbastanza deluso da CD Project, il gioco ha potenzialità enormi, ma sembra una beta, in cui la storia è stata fatta, ma in tutto il resto mancano cose o ci sono problemi enormi, potrei stare qui tutto il giorno ad elencare bug o mancanze veramente stupide:
    Bug grafici come se piovesse, davvero, uno ogni 5 minuti, alcuni anche gravi e permanenti, io ho le immagini dei personaggi quando mi telefonano buggate da più di 6 ore di gioco, e riavviare non è servito a niente. A volte mancavano totalmente le texture dei personaggi durante le cutscenes, spezzando qualunque immersione nel gioco.
    oppure mancanza a livello di implementazioni, alcune stupide ma fastidiose, per esempio la mini mappa non si allarga superata una certa velocità in un veicolo, questo fa si che quando segui il gps e devi fare una svolta, la vedi troppo tardi se sti andando veloce, oppure (provare per credere) è quasi impossibile utilizzare un arma di precisione e sparare a qualcuno più in basso di te, perché il mirino scende e in caso di mirini grossi non vedi più niente, ed è pieno di questo tipo di cose, PIENO.

    O vogliamo parlare dell'ottimizzazione? io con una 1080 in fullhd con le impostazioni su "alto", ho una media di 45fps con cali fino a 30 durante la guida o in posti affollati. In teoria sarebbe bastata una 1060 per giocare in full hd con le impostazioni su "alto".

    Neanche i giochi di Betesda sono così conciati quando escono, è un gioco che avrebbe bisogno di altri 6 mesi di bugfix e implementazioni, e sorvolo sull'IA che è meglio.

    L'unico motivo per cui gli sto dando un 7 e non un 5 o massimo un 6 che si meriterebbe è solo per le potenzialità una volta sistemati i problemi, che ci sono tutte, tra personalizzazione del personaggio e quest abbastanza varie e interessanti.    … Expand
  51. Blindside90
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    It's honestly a joke that this has a critic average of 90 at release day given the state it's in.

    - Pretty quiet feeling open world outside of quests which doesn't have a lot of things to interact with in it. - Super dumb or even nonexistent AI with enemies, NPCs, cops, etc. Really makes interactions with other characters in the game feel immersion-breaking based on their    It's honestly a joke that this has a critic average of 90 at release day given the state it's in.

    - Pretty quiet feeling open world outside of quests which doesn't have a lot of things to interact with in it.
    - Super dumb or even nonexistent AI with enemies, NPCs, cops, etc. Really makes interactions with other characters in the game feel immersion-breaking based on their dumb/non-believeable reactions to what is happening around them. Doesn't seem to be any vehicle-driving AI at all, just hardcoded paths which are followed.
    - Cops spawn and disappear out of nowhere and don't seem to be actually capable of persuing you.
    - The RPG elements of the game are pretty lacking
    - Vehicle physics are trash, they seem to just pivot about the centre
    - There's a multitude of general glitches and bugs currently.

    + Music and sound effects are amazing.
    + The visuals and spectacle of the world itself when there are no bugs and you're playing on a PC on medium to high-ish settings is awesome. Unfortunately for PS4 and Xbox One players they probably won't get to experience that..

    "As wide as an ocean but as shallow as a puddle" The game feels like a lot of smoke and mirrors.

    It's difficult to believe that 7 or so years has resulted in this.
    All of this said I think it has the potential to become amazing with more development time, there's a great foundation of a city to build upon here and improve for sure. If good depth gets added to the game along with vast AI improvement and bug fixes it'll get a lot better. I wouldn't buy it now, I'd wait 6-12 months and re-evaluate your decision then based on if the game has been substatially improved tbh.    … Expand
  52. AnAverageGamer
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    Let me start with the basics first and solve an all important question. Did Cyberpunk 2077 live up to the all the hype and buzz its devs created? The simple answer to that, is a resounding No and I'll explain why in a bit so bear with me.
    First things first, the game's quite good and very accessible from a controls standpoint. That's not to say that the controls are a cakewalk, they    Let me start with the basics first and solve an all important question. Did Cyberpunk 2077 live up to the all the hype and buzz its devs created? The simple answer to that, is a resounding No and I'll explain why in a bit so bear with me.
    First things first, the game's quite good and very accessible from a controls standpoint. That's not to say that the controls are a cakewalk, they certainly have a learning curve and it doesn't take long to get into grips with and that's a plus. I sank around 56 hours into the game since release day and that contains 2 20 hour playthroughs(with breaks here and there of course) on day 1 and day 2 and a 16 hour playthrough on day 3, so i think I'm more than knowledgeable enough to talk about the game's shortcomings.
    One very evident thing i noticed and that hasn't been fixed yet is the wide assortment of bugs featured in the game. Characters walking through objects and elevators, random hitches and performance drops here and there occurring all too frequently and making the experience far less enjoyable, extremely rare graphical glitches in certain areas and so on. It is unacceptable launching a game in this state. People brush it off simply because it was developed by CDPR but it really shouldn't get a free pass like that, had it been another developer people would be all over them.
    With these things been said, I want to get into the nitty gritty things in the game as soon as possible so I don't make this review a full on essay. The story is quite good, it won't raise the bar or reinvent the wheel in terms of storytelling and voice acting but that didn't stop it from being a good cyberpunk story set in the near future for me and it manages to capture that essence or feeling quite well, i have to warn you though, it does tend to get a fair bit generic at certain points so don't go in expecting it to "blow your socks off". Next is the soundtrack and ambiance which along with the visuals can make the game feel utterly realistic and somewhat atmospheric in specific areas, especially at night with all that neon and street lights going on creating an almost surreal and gorgeous looking game, one with a soundtrack that tends to capture that cyberpunk aesthetic quite well and is further amplified by a gorgeous art style that adds to the experience and immersion on offer in the game.
    Now, while the open world looks gorgeous that does come at a catch, the world feels empty and somewhat barren in a lot of areas and no I'm not talking about the suburban areas and areas found in the desert region of the map, I'm talking about areas that normally should be crowded and not just during the day but also at night, areas such as the City Center for instance which should be teeming with life, but it isn't.
    Gameplay is great but areas such as driving, fighting and gunplay look like they need a lot of work and I mean a LOT of work. Gunplay looks barebones with guns barely having any kick to them and giving that feeling that you're shooting nerf guns and not actual weapons since they lack the "oomph" you would get even in guns found in "ancient" games like 2010's Cod: Black Ops which wasn't realistic by any sense of the imagination but the gunplay felt satisfying and each gun felt unique in its own way. You won't get that with cyberpunk. In terms of fighting I'll make it short, melee fighting is very basic, punching enemies makes you feel like you're punching a mannequin since all you get is a basic reaction or lack thereof from the enemy you hit and ragdoll physics are completely absent. Finally driving, I'll just say driving feels like Watch Dogs and don't get me started on that game and how unresponsive its driving was. Each vehicle, regardless if it was a basic car, a motorcycle or an expensive luxury vehicle lacked any unique characteristics when it comes to responsiveness and overall sense of speed. Using a very simple description, "It's like driving a boat, not a car". With regards to combat however, the various ways you can hack one or multiple enemies at once and make them do all sorts of things like shoot themselves or jam their guns makes combat a lot more enjoyable.
    The wide variety of cybernetic augmentations and character customisation add immense replay value to the game and the various dialog trees which can make a certain conversation turn in one way or another makes conversations more enjoyable even though they feel useless in some situations. There's a wide assortment of skills, aptly called perks to specialise in making your character feel unique and suitable to your preferred playstyle some of them felt completely useless though and even though I chose some of them, there are certain perks that didn't really do anything for me.
    All in all, Cyberpunk 2077 is a really good game but it's certainly not the revolutionary rpg CDPR hyped it up to be. It's got it's ups, but at the same time it's got its downs(both mild and severe) however that didn't stop from being enjoyable.    … Expand
  53. MMd20
    Dec 15, 2020
    5
    Buggy and with underdeveloped/unbalanced game systems, this game is fun, but broken. And it's definitely not an RPG.

    Certain skills, like Cold Blood, Engineering, and Athletics are either obfuscated or completely unbalanced. It took hours of experimentation and online investigation to figure out, for example, that Cold Blood requires a perk to increase its xp (the only skill requiring a    Buggy and with underdeveloped/unbalanced game systems, this game is fun, but broken. And it's definitely not an RPG.

    Certain skills, like Cold Blood, Engineering, and Athletics are either obfuscated or completely unbalanced. It took hours of experimentation and online investigation to figure out, for example, that Cold Blood requires a perk to increase its xp (the only skill requiring a perk), but also that activating the perk isn't enough, you have to kill enemies while the perk is active. Using tech weapons is supposed to increase engineering xp, but it turns out you only get the engineering xp if you shoot enemies through walls. Kind of an important caveat. Athletics is not balanced to gameplay at all. The skill description says running, jumping, etc will increase your xp, but this is a lie. Athletics xp gain is tied to stamina drain, which is an important distinction since many skills reduce or remove stamina usage, making the already abysmally low rate of athletics skill gain entirely null. This is just bad design. I had to set up an auto-clicker to let my character jump for 9 hours straight, to drain enough stamina to only gain 3 levels in athletics. That is on top of the 12 hours I've spent actually playing the game, running around, etc. Somebody somewhere had to move a decimal point, because it's not right.

    Speaking of bad design, this game was heavily, heavily marketed as an RPG. It was based on a tabletop RPG. This game is not an RPG, which I would have known had I been following Cyberpunk news closely, as apparently they stealthily switched the description a while back to action-adventure. Just one aspect of the gross, deceptive marketing CDPR used for this game. They deliberately hid the poor performance on consoles by disallowing review copies. They also knew how buggy and unpolished the game was prior to release, which is why they only let reviewers use B-roll and trailer footage in their reviews. A lot of folks have reported a lot of bugs. The majority I've run into have been floating objects or dropped items clipping into the ground and becoming impossible to collect. Not that I need to, because there is already way too much in the world to collect.

    This game has one of those looter-shooter loot system designs. The kinds with hundreds of identical weapons that get ever-so-slightly, incrementally better as you increase in level. I hate this type of game. I'm definitely of the camp that likes weapon systems in games like Dark Souls or Fallout 4. These games have a variety of weapons, but the weapons have unique move sets or abilities and can be improved over time. It is a system that gives meaning to choice and to play style, an aspect of RPGs. Cyberpunk does have a crafting system, but it's largely useless for upgrading your gear. This is another part of the game that just doesn't feel balanced at all. The investment of resources into upgrading weapons is so heavy, especially if the weapons are legendary and require legendary components, that you're better off just waiting a few levels and either finding a new weapon, or crafting one if you're lucky enough to have found a crafting schematic. And really, you can only craft those good weapons if you've heavily invested permanently allocated attribute points into technical skill so you can buy the required perks. The investment just isn't worth it, which is an aspect that just casts a pall over the whole experience.

    I've had to give up on even pretending this is a role playing game. You get a character creator in this game because it checks off a box that idiots like me look for when purchasing a game. I spent hours obsessing over which start I should pick, wondering how it would affect the game. It didn't. Character origins basically give you a few extra dialogue choices, but I have seen no impact on game play. Most of the Nomad dialogue choices I've made have basically boiled down to my character saying "I'm a nomad, I can help you out with this," and the NPC responding "No, thanks." Sweet. And this brings me back to the loot system, which adds extra salt to the wounds. I wanted to make a cool Nomad merc, but because I'm lacking the components and level to upgrade the cool legendary armor I found, my cool-under-pressure nomad solo is wearing a woman's kimono top and cut-off shorts, because their armor rating is like double my legendary, unique Rockerboy's Vest. I hate this.

    I wanted to experience the world of Cyberpunk. My friends are in to tabletop games, but not really the genre. I thought this game would be a way to do so. The world is empty, with no interactions possible outside of driving, killing, and shopping. In a way, I guess that's what the world of Cyberpunk is supposed to be, but it wouldn't have killed them to throw in some mini games or something. Night City is beautiful, but I prefer Yakuza 0's Kamurocho.

    Cyberpunk 2077 shines in its characters, quests, and art direction. Otherwise, it's skippable. 5/10.    … Expand
  54. NoahGame
    Dec 15, 2020
    7
    Игра хорошая, но не доработанная. Детишки с короткой памятью ставят нули также как ставили третьему ведьмаку. Желаю CDPR удачи и сил это пережить!
  55. Nom-4d
    Dec 11, 2020
    5
    For now, only bugs and problems, not this game have been waiting so long time...
  56. cobb208
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    I want to like this game; the story has been great so far. The gameplay is a lot of fun… when it works. I understand bugs are a part of games. The amount I have gotten is more than any other game I have had. When it decides to work it is a lot of fun. I am about 10 hours in and feel that the story will continue to get better. The characters bring the story in and make it interesting.I want to like this game; the story has been great so far. The gameplay is a lot of fun… when it works. I understand bugs are a part of games. The amount I have gotten is more than any other game I have had. When it decides to work it is a lot of fun. I am about 10 hours in and feel that the story will continue to get better. The characters bring the story in and make it interesting. Outside of the characters and mission structure everything else is “meh”
    The menus are a tire fire to say the least. Trying to figure out how to do something for the first time is just a bunch of random clicking and hoping it will work out. Once you figure something out it is fine, but before then it can be a struggle. The city is very “alive” until you look closer. Besides the 500 shootings that happen in this city, there is not much going on. The premade missions that happen all over are fun and interesting. Some of them have problems but they are minor. Outside of the scripted events there is no sporadic events.
    The game is fun, I enjoy what frustrations have come. Hopefully, over time, they can resolve the small things to make a decent game great.    … Expand
  57. Xalamito
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    I thought I was going to eat a cookie with chocolate chips, but those were old raisins.

    Unacceptable marketing. Unforgivable manipulation of press opinion by not sending console copies or letting people record their own material for reviews. And worse of all, the game is mediocre at best, very bad in the worst moments (full of bugs). The main problem is not bugs and glitches because    I thought I was going to eat a cookie with chocolate chips, but those were old raisins.

    Unacceptable marketing. Unforgivable manipulation of press opinion by not sending console copies or letting people record their own material for reviews. And worse of all, the game is mediocre at best, very bad in the worst moments (full of bugs).
    The main problem is not bugs and glitches because those will get fixed soon. The problem is that the game is flawed at its core. The open world is dead, there are no people around, the mission design is old and lazy and it actually destroys any opportunity of actually roleplaying. I feel completely disconnected from my V, not only because I cannot change my appearance in any way, but also because I am given pretty much no significant chances of developing any personality.
    This is game is NOT what was advertised. The biggest cyberpunk move in the videogames industry. They did it.    … Expand
  58. Sentinel-One
    Dec 22, 2020
    5
    A technological marvel, with the best looking city ever created, amazing ray tracing effects and a fantastic soundtrack. But in terms of story-telling and immersion a complete bust. The city looks great, but is empty and most things cannot be interacted with. Many functions that were shown in the trailers were cut from the game and the game feels hollow. The traffic is on rails, theA technological marvel, with the best looking city ever created, amazing ray tracing effects and a fantastic soundtrack. But in terms of story-telling and immersion a complete bust. The city looks great, but is empty and most things cannot be interacted with. Many functions that were shown in the trailers were cut from the game and the game feels hollow. The traffic is on rails, the promised subway was cut, there is no meaningful interaction with random npcs and so on....

    The mainstory falls completely off the rails during mid-game. For an rpg the story is very linear with almost no meaningful choices or interesting branches. At the end of the game the player can only decide which way he wants to die:

    A: as disabled person, with a 6 months life expectancy
    B: as digital copy, reuploaded into your brain wiped body, also with a 6 months life expectancy
    C: as digital copy, going into cyberspace and leaving your body to the terrorist Johnny Silverhand
    D: as digital copy, owned by the Arasaka megacorp, who are the villains

    What a disappointment, after all that hype...    … Expand
  59. iamthebestrevie
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    Buggy, unfinished and missing fleshed out features. It has potential to be great, but right now it's just okay.
  60. VortexED
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    I wanted to love this game but in its current state, there's no way I can recommend this game to anyone.

    While not game-breaking, there are way too many visual and small bugs. Optimisation is poor as well, even though I don't have a top-end PC (2070, 5600x and 32GB RAM) I get big FPS dips below 60 at random points in the game and can't maintain a stable 60 FPS at most times. There also    I wanted to love this game but in its current state, there's no way I can recommend this game to anyone.

    While not game-breaking, there are way too many visual and small bugs. Optimisation is poor as well, even though I don't have a top-end PC (2070, 5600x and 32GB RAM) I get big FPS dips below 60 at random points in the game and can't maintain a stable 60 FPS at most times. There also might be a memory leak issue? Had to reboot the game to fix my FPS after several hours.

    The AI in the game is terrible, NPCs walk away and phase out of the game. Even happens with named NPCs, like the bouncer outside Lizzie's Bar. Nothing like what the devs claimed of "over 1,000 unique NPCs that have their own unique daily routines." Another example is when it comes to the police, they just spawn right behind you when you're wanted.

    Onto the intro and choosing your lifepath, it seemingly ends within 30 or so minutes. I thought it was a major decision that was supposed to affect your game but you suddenly get a timeskip and you're already settled in in Night City. I've seen instances where you get additional dialogue options but they don't seem to have any consequences so far. Nothing more than filler.

    An improvement can also be made for various QOL features, such as being able to change your character's appearance (hair, tattoos, etc) after the character creation, ability to toggle walk on keyboard, minimap being too zoomed in to the point it's almost useless. Furthermore, the inability to rebind certain keys is also ridiculous on PC and not being able to change more specific settings such as sensitivity for aiming.

    Looking at gameplay and more specifically stealth combat (as that is what I've currently spec'd as), it seems more like an after-thought. When you're hiding behind wast-high cover you may as well not be, because all enemies can see you anyway. Also when you're crouching, a lot of the time you end up dodging when trying to make minor positioning adjustments (unless you rebind the keys in the ini file), which then reveals you to the enemies.
    Additionally driving doesn't feel good either. This might be subjective, but the driving is overly sensitive. I have more trouble keep the car straight and not crashing than anything else.

    I love the world, the atmosphere and the game feels good when it works. But the problem is a lot of the time there's things that take you out of the game, whether it's bad performance, visual bugs or poor AI (such as when you're talking to NPCs for a quest and other NPCs just walk inbetween you several times). Wait for the game to be patched, and I mean several patches before buying. The game is very reminiscent of Witcher 3's initial release.    … Expand
  61. LillyBloodmoon
    Dec 29, 2020
    6
    I dont really care much about the bugs. What really pissed me off was the amount of cut content. They really did manipulate and lie. Just look up 2018 gameplay demo cut content on reddit and you will see.
    The only good things about the game is how amazing and detailed night city is and the music. They really put in alot of effort into the city. Driving though night city in the night with    I dont really care much about the bugs. What really pissed me off was the amount of cut content. They really did manipulate and lie. Just look up 2018 gameplay demo cut content on reddit and you will see.
    The only good things about the game is how amazing and detailed night city is and the music. They really put in alot of effort into the city. Driving though night city in the night with the music is really amazing. just VIBE.    … Expand
  62. JohnBoy2020
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    Excellent game, yeah it has the odd bug but what open world game doesn't. Graphics are truly next gen. Can't wait to see how they expand on it
  63. ikovr88
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    Тоже конечно хочется влепить 0, но это будет неадекватная оценка, все кто так делает - по сути импульсивные истерички. 5/10 объективная оценка этой игры. Хрен с ними с багами, хрен бы даже с ужасной оптимизацией. Все это со временем можно исправить, но чего не исправить так это искусственный интеллект NPC в открытом мире. Это просто уровень GTA 3. Нам в 2016 году обещали возможностьТоже конечно хочется влепить 0, но это будет неадекватная оценка, все кто так делает - по сути импульсивные истерички. 5/10 объективная оценка этой игры. Хрен с ними с багами, хрен бы даже с ужасной оптимизацией. Все это со временем можно исправить, но чего не исправить так это искусственный интеллект NPC в открытом мире. Это просто уровень GTA 3. Нам в 2016 году обещали возможность взаимодействия с любым NPC в игре. И обещали что эти взаимодействия будут уникальными. А по факту, все что мы можем сделать это подойти, нажать F и услышать одну фразу от прохожего, или мы можем его ударить и увидеть как все вокруг садятся на корточки и в страхе держатся за голову. И ВСЁ!! В Гта 5, ударив прохожего, ты можешь и получить в ответ от него, или он может испугаться и начать убегать, или достать оружие. А прохожие которые это все видят могут испугаться, достать телефон и начать снимать или вызвать полицию или убежать. и это в игре 2013 года!!!! Но спустя 7 лет мы получаем это убожество. Нас просто нагло обманули. CDPR стоило бы хотябы извиниться. Сюжетная часть игры - хорошая и интересная, диалоги супер, за развитием событий наблюдать реально интересно. Но на одном сюжете далеко не уедешь. Не рекомендую к покупке, качайте на торрентах, разработчик должен понести наказание за чистейший воды пиз...ж… Expand
  64. BeastMTL
    Dec 19, 2020
    7
    A great if slightly flawed effort from CD Projekt Red. World building is top notch, Lots of detail and attention was paid into this game. Unfortunately it is also flawed in the glitches / bugs. While I have faith the bugs / glitches will be ironed out over time, it was definitely released in not a great state. 7/ 10 now.

    On the consoles though, all I can say is ouch!
  65. VervalX
    Jan 5, 2021
    6
    Al di là dei problemi tecnici che sono solo la punta dell'iceberg di una carente gestione aziendale siamo passati da un capolavoro assoluto di originalità che è stato The Witcher 3 ad una banale rivisitazione come tante di un futuro distopico. Un misto di vari generi che gli sviluppatori non sono riusciti appieno a fondere assieme.
  66. helZNate
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    Very typical CDPR launch release.

    Bugs to begin and greatness awaits for the patient. The Witcher 1 was an absolute disaster on release; of which they practically had to re-release. The Witcher 2 had some big ones, but they achieved the impossible with the 360 version. The Witcher 3, was delayed by 6 months and had some horrible performance bugs on the base consoles; which got    Very typical CDPR launch release.

    Bugs to begin and greatness awaits for the patient.

    The Witcher 1 was an absolute disaster on release; of which they practically had to re-release.

    The Witcher 2 had some big ones, but they achieved the impossible with the 360 version.

    The Witcher 3, was delayed by 6 months and had some horrible performance bugs on the base consoles; which got ironed out.

    I guess the success of The Witcher 3 gave them huge mindshare; which brought new fans in, and then held them up to such a ridiculously high pedestal.

    Honestly people have no idea about CDPR's launch history; hence the ignorant low reviews.

    CP2077 will turn out great in about 6 months; it's very good right now on PC, but the consoles will have to wait.

    So right now it's a solid 7 and not GOTY as the mainstream game media make it out to be...yet.    … Expand
  67. DarkRedz
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Seriously u can't bind another key for the interaction?
    BTW so many bugs for a 7 years developing games    … Expand
  68. crocro27
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    So after 8 years of waiting here it is in all its glory. Cyberpunk 2077 is a game many of as have been waiting for with excitement and we ar finally able to play it. In all honesty the game is good but not what many of as expected, the biggest problem right now are the bugs which will with time be solved. The main story is all right. In my opinion it should have been a longer and at aSo after 8 years of waiting here it is in all its glory. Cyberpunk 2077 is a game many of as have been waiting for with excitement and we ar finally able to play it. In all honesty the game is good but not what many of as expected, the biggest problem right now are the bugs which will with time be solved. The main story is all right. In my opinion it should have been a longer and at a certain point it just died. On the other hand Night City is just breathtaking it is clear from the moment you enter the open world that CDPR really put a lot of effort in the making of Night City. Driving is good to some it will be bad but it is solid, combat is also pretty good but a word of warning to all you out there how have played Tom Clancy's The Division you now what I'm talking about. Hacking is also not to bad. All in all the game on PC is good, there are some pretty good aspects of the game and some need more time polishing. The score is 6.7 out of 10 because it just didn't live up to the hype. And I really hope that CDPR will take notes from this and learn from there mistakes.… Expand
  69. NikoDukeNasar
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    non of the expectations besides the beautiful city was realized.
    This is not a next-gen open-world RPG this is the conclusion of all the previous-gen RPG games.
    and yes it's full of glitches.
    Do I recommend to play this game? yes. but it's mostly disappointing.
  70. PDitta
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    PS4 Pro So, there is a terrific game in here, but not on a PS4 or a Pro. And, by all accounts, not on the XBox One or mid range PCs either. On the Pro, the awful technical issues reported on the base PS4 aren’t as bad, but it isn’t good, either. Forget it being buggy, which it is, the world feels empty and lacking in texture and flavour. To make the game work they’ve depopulated Night CityPS4 Pro So, there is a terrific game in here, but not on a PS4 or a Pro. And, by all accounts, not on the XBox One or mid range PCs either. On the Pro, the awful technical issues reported on the base PS4 aren’t as bad, but it isn’t good, either. Forget it being buggy, which it is, the world feels empty and lacking in texture and flavour. To make the game work they’ve depopulated Night City to the point that it’s an empty sandbox. It’s a fantastic city, beautifully designed. But without the horsepower to do it justice, the PS4 version feels hollow. All the graphical flourishes that bring the world alive? Forget it. It looks like a game from the early 2000s on a last gen console. The eye popping visuals are limited to the top 5% of PC spec. Everyone else gets “functional” It’s a shame as the CDPR magic is here, their strengths are all on display, but they should have just bitten the bullet and made this a PC/PS5/XBox X title. I will say, though, that this is a role playing game in name only. Apart from a quite involved skill tree, there aren’t the world changing decision trees in this game. Some of the dialogue options have one choice. What’s the point of presenting me with a single choice dialogue tree? Do they think I will miss pressing a button every couple of minutes? And there is a mission that’s basically a platform level. If I wanted a platform game I would buy an old Sega Megadrive and plug Sonic the Hedgehog in. The old hardware can’t cut it and they knew it, why else did they withhold console code from the reviewers? The way to play this is either on a high end PC or wait for the next gen console versions. CDPR should take a reputation hit for this. They’ve released a game onto a format that can’t do it justice and tried to conceal the shortcomings for short term profit. Any claims to being customer-centric die here.… Expand
  71. Arthur01
    Jan 15, 2021
    7
    Bom, eu havia feito uma análise a respeito do Cyberpunk 2077 logo após o lançamento do Patch 1.04 aqui no Metacritic que eu dei 8.0 inclusive. Mas eu acho que eu peguei muito leve com o jogo e agora que o hype passou volto para refazer a minha análise. O jogo tem sim uma história incrível na minha opinião, uma trilha sonora impecável mas o jogo peca muito, mas muito mesmo no que se propõe,Bom, eu havia feito uma análise a respeito do Cyberpunk 2077 logo após o lançamento do Patch 1.04 aqui no Metacritic que eu dei 8.0 inclusive. Mas eu acho que eu peguei muito leve com o jogo e agora que o hype passou volto para refazer a minha análise. O jogo tem sim uma história incrível na minha opinião, uma trilha sonora impecável mas o jogo peca muito, mas muito mesmo no que se propõe, no caso ser o jogo que tem a cidade mais realista de todos os jogos de Mundo Aberto. O design de Night City é incrível, extremamente massiva, mas a cidade simplesmente não tem vida. No PC ainda é possível encontrar muitos npcs nas ruas, apesar disso também ter sido "capado", mas a impressão que dá é que eles são apenas bonecos andando pra lá e pra cá como se eles tivessem sido jogados dentro daquele universo sem a menor razão de existirem, sem rotina pessoal e nem nada do tipo, isso sem contar a IA dos motoristas que é simplesmente horrorosa, os carros param do nada na sua frente, não desviam de você, é algo absolutamente vergonhoso diante do potencial que o Cyberpunk 2077 tinha e foi absolutamente arruinado.
    Não existem animações de comer, não existem animações de instalação de implantes a não ser em missões.
    Principalmente na região das Terras Baldias existe outro negócio horroroso que é o tráfego falso de veículos que são carros de papel que aparecem e somem do nada na sua frente.
    A interação com os personagens (da história do jogo) é muito boa, da pra amar certos personagens e odiar outros, isso o jogo conseguiu fazer muito bem.
    O sistema de procurado do jogo é sem dúvida o maior problema dele, onde os policias aparecem do nada onde quer que você esteja e não tem perseguição policial.
    Isso tudo sem falar dos bugs e do corte de conteúdo. Eu não vou perder mais tempo aqui falando dos problemas do jogo, acho que já deu pra entender. Se tem alguma coisa que salva nele é a história.    … Expand
  72. tamerp0yraz
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    Great concept, world building and solid RPG elements; but it is far from a completed project as it is. For example, even after four patches on day two, some NPC from an early side quest still follows me around and ruins the atmosphere of every major scene by creeping around.
    I fully trust CDPR about fixing the bugs given enough time, but for now I'm going to lay it off for awhile and    Great concept, world building and solid RPG elements; but it is far from a completed project as it is. For example, even after four patches on day two, some NPC from an early side quest still follows me around and ruins the atmosphere of every major scene by creeping around.
    I fully trust CDPR about fixing the bugs given enough time, but for now I'm going to lay it off for awhile and come back about 6-7 months later.    … Expand
  73. Hangrad
    Dec 19, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. -Gameplay (Driving,action,control):Apart from the gameplay promised by the producer firm, Cyberpunk has been a game with an average level of gameplay compared to the year it was released(2020).
    Driving mechanics were (really)below average and combat mechanics were mediocre.it is an FPS game, CDPR should been give more effort to combat mechanics. The variety of weapons is very much but their mechanics are very similar.
    Character control good enough. We have various physical upgrade our character and their adaptation to the gameplay has very successful.

    -Graphics and Design:The biggest part of the game.Each object has been taken care of and the design of the city is truly magnificent. It is a game with above average graphics compared to the generation. The biggest factor that saves the game is success in graphics and design.

    -Musics and Sound Effects:Another point that I find successful is musics. Their music contains offensive language similar to the atmosphere it is in, this detail is nice. Radio stations are also varied and numerous.
    If we look at the sound effects, some of the characters have successfully voiced , while others have not been cared for. The sounds of the cars are very similar to each other.Sports cars and heavy vehicles could be better distinguished.
    By the way, they distinguished the gun sounds very well.The sound effects during the combat are good

    Story,Side Quests,Mission Design and Dialogues:They wrote an interesting main story, it was a story with a plot suitable for the period in which the game took place.
    The side missions should definitely have been done with more care. The number of quality side missions is really few. There are really many repetitive missions.
    The mission design depends on your gameplay. If you want stealth,you can hack the enemies but if you want fight with them you can start gunfight. The game has given you an opportunity to create the mission design yourself. It was a really nice feature.
    The dialogues on the other hand are too much, but not sufficiently original. Texts are gushing all over the game, there are hundreds of chips in the game but very few of them contain interesting text and dialogues.

    Technical(Physics,Gunshot effects...):The physics engine of the game is really bad. It has a very low level physics engine compared to a AAA game. Car crashes, NPC physics ... Let's not talk about it.
    I didn't like the impact in the game. Limb rupture is a nice detail but the impact of the sniper and gun is the same, and this is a very bad feeling for me.Also fight mechanics not good too. Very artificially designed.

    İnterface:The interface was neither good nor bad. The part describing the weapon features was very mixed, but the cyber hardware part was plain and nice. So some parts were good, some parts were not.

    -CDPR was crushed under self-generated hype.
    -It's not good enough for a game that has been actively prepared for 4 years.
    -I didn't mention bugs and glitches, but these are important shortcomings.
    -Cyberpunk 2077 has not been a good experience for CDPR as expected, I hope they can get back to it.    … Expand
  74. MRplayer99
    Dec 11, 2020
    7
    Cyberpunk 2077 is only ok. Not the next generation of gaming or anything like that. There is enjoyment to be found here though we’ve seen everything thing it has to offer done better in plenty of other games. Personally I haven’t run into many bugs myself. With that said I have seen videos of other players having problems with bugs. Maybe the game could have used even more cooking time forCyberpunk 2077 is only ok. Not the next generation of gaming or anything like that. There is enjoyment to be found here though we’ve seen everything thing it has to offer done better in plenty of other games. Personally I haven’t run into many bugs myself. With that said I have seen videos of other players having problems with bugs. Maybe the game could have used even more cooking time for bugs and to implement some of the things promised in advertisements. Plenty of big name reviewers also posted misleading information. Cyberpunk 2077 is just an ok game that is definitely nowhere near as good as were lead to believe it would be.… Expand
  75. Recydo
    Dec 11, 2020
    7
    CDPR, а что это простите такое? Что с оптимизацией? Её что не завезли? Вы разрабатывали CyberPunk 2077 на протяжении 8 лет, начинали тогда, когда ещё ps3 была в ходу, и на выходе мы получаем пустой мир без людей и машин(кроме сюжетных моментов) с постоянно скачущим ФПС опускающимся ниже 30, ошибками и вылетами? Без спорно, сюжетно игра великолепна, квесты, проработка персонажей, побочныеCDPR, а что это простите такое? Что с оптимизацией? Её что не завезли? Вы разрабатывали CyberPunk 2077 на протяжении 8 лет, начинали тогда, когда ещё ps3 была в ходу, и на выходе мы получаем пустой мир без людей и машин(кроме сюжетных моментов) с постоянно скачущим ФПС опускающимся ниже 30, ошибками и вылетами? Без спорно, сюжетно игра великолепна, квесты, проработка персонажей, побочные миссии, ОК к этому вопросов вообще нет, но как этим всем насладится с такой оптимизацией и багами? И это ещё ПК версия. Доверие теряется по щелчку пальцев и боюсь ваш кредит доверия уже на исходе. Я ставлю игре 7, авансом на будущие патчи и исправления, но то что вы выпустили это безобразие. Обладателей консолей прошлого поколения вы и вовсе обманули и они боюсь вам этого не простят… Expand
  76. Hrezolit
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    Incredible game, over not a long time they will optimize it, sooo... waiting
  77. Goldmaro
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    Played on mid/high range pc with AMD card.
    Buggy game, not well optimized (run smooth if u have a 1200$ video card though xd),
    In max difficulty settings enemies are bullet sponge and don't provide any challenge since they don't have any AI at all. Technically its a little bit better then a assassin's creed game but not by far, this is a sad day for video game industry and CD project    Played on mid/high range pc with AMD card.
    Buggy game, not well optimized (run smooth if u have a 1200$ video card though xd),
    In max difficulty settings enemies are bullet sponge and don't provide any challenge since they don't have any AI at all.
    Technically its a little bit better then a assassin's creed game but not by far, this is a sad day for video game industry and CD project red....
    So one more unfinished game.
    Maybe it will be good in 6 month / one years but for now it's just bad.

    If u like playing a first person shooter in 50fps and like playing with bug every 2mn i recommend it for sure, story is great so u will have a good time.    … Expand
  78. Shinobi_Sicari
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    Was really looking forward to this game. Sadly its not as great as promised and i can't recommend it for the full price.

    - Yes its very buggy and poorly optimized right now, but they will take care of that so don't worry. - The combat feels off. Maybe they should have stayed away from first person view and keep it a third person game like they did in the witcher series. If i am in    Was really looking forward to this game. Sadly its not as great as promised and i can't recommend it for the full price.

    - Yes its very buggy and poorly optimized right now, but they will take care of that so don't worry.

    - The combat feels off. Maybe they should have stayed away from first person view and keep it a third person game like they did in the witcher series. If i am in first person i expect sharp FPS gun play. Deus Ex did a good job. This game doesn't deliver.

    - Stealth game play is shallow.

    - The characters lack soul.

    - Maybe just not the game for me and i got deluded by the media hype. When i look at the critic reviews i ask myself if they got paid to write something nice. They are not accurate. Best is to watch some streamers and form your own opinion about the game before you buy it.    … Expand
  79. navernoe_da
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    The game is raw, very raw. CD Projekt could a little more, but delay the release of the game. All that remains is to wait for patches with fixes of all problems, and this will take a very long time
  80. dukkzin
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    A Good story with Good graphics but with a bad adaptation, this game is not finished and A LOT OF BUGS, it's worse than Ubi.soft, not kidding at all, I wonder 7 **** years and they didn't see it? LMAO, you can see a bug each minute in the game.
  81. JamesKemp2
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    As of writing this review the current state is very buggy even on PC. There are loads of visual bugs, from floating objects to T posing NPCs. At one point I was T posing naked on my motorcycle which I admit was pretty humorous at the time.

    If we ignore the bugs, this open world is one of the most lifeless I have ever seen. There is 0 AI behavior for NPCs. If you shoot, they crouch in    As of writing this review the current state is very buggy even on PC. There are loads of visual bugs, from floating objects to T posing NPCs. At one point I was T posing naked on my motorcycle which I admit was pretty humorous at the time.

    If we ignore the bugs, this open world is one of the most lifeless I have ever seen. There is 0 AI behavior for NPCs. If you shoot, they crouch in place and do nothing. They don't run like other games. There is no vehicle AI either. If you are blocking them by an inch they won't go around you like in GTA because all the cars in this game are on rails it seems with no mind of their own.

    You literally phase through NPCs while walking by them. You don't physically bump them like in GTA or RDR2. You can't knock them over either. Overall they just feel hollow because of this.

    Police in this game is horrid. They TP near you even if you are running away in a vehicle. There are NO POLICE CHASES. All the car chases in this game are scripted events.

    Now for the good stuff. The main story is the only reason to play this game. It is actually really good with lots of big Michael Bay moments. The side quests are decent but not as good as Witcher 3 IMIO. Overall my final verdict is that for one this game should have been delayed dude to bugs, but also it seems that the budget went straight to visuals instead of deep game mechanics and an interesting open world.    … Expand
  82. cara1
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    Before the game came out many reviewers claimed that the main story was only a small part of the game and that the side quests will be where the real meat of the game is. But, after beating the game and playing through the main endings as well as completing all the non-gig side quests (other than finding all the graffiti) I can say that this is 100% false.

    Completing all the side quests    Before the game came out many reviewers claimed that the main story was only a small part of the game and that the side quests will be where the real meat of the game is. But, after beating the game and playing through the main endings as well as completing all the non-gig side quests (other than finding all the graffiti) I can say that this is 100% false.

    Completing all the side quests takes about the same amount of time as the main story. However, many of them are glorified gigs. And, the one's that do have a story do not rival the main story in any way. If you expected side quests similar to Fallout or Elder Scrolls then prepare to be let down.

    There are a number "main" side quests that revolve around: Terry (Johnny's band member), Judy, and Panam. These are longer than all the others since they are the start to quest chains. But the chains are short for what they are. Then, there are 3-4 side quest chains with only 2-3 parts. And, the rest of the side quests are one-off quests that can take anywhere from literally only 1 minute to 20 minutes.

    The side quests have slightly more choice than the main quest line. But, the choices have almost no consequences. It really doesn't matter what you decide or how to talk with the characters. Usually, you'll get a happy or mean text an in-game day later.

    So, the game has: a good main quest with terrible endings, about 20 mostly boring side quests with only a few turning into quest chains, no impactful choices, and very little RPG elements in terms of life-path, attributes, and perks. Atleast, the map is really cool. It's a shame they didn't use so many of the cool areas they created for something other than pointless and repetitive gig quests. Next time you're driving in-game: look around. Look at all the cool places the designers made. Do you know how much of it is used to tell interesting stories? Almost none of it. What a shame.

    TLDR: Buy the game if you think you'll really enjoy the main story. Don't buy it for anything else. The side quests, world, and lack of RPG elements will disappoint. Hell, even the main story's ending may disappoint.    … Expand
  83. Maydayjay
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    I thinks its not a scam or the greatest game ever. Its buggy and i am a bit overwhelmed by the number of activities. You get the feeling of ubisoft games like watch dog with all the collectibels, the bad driving and the stupid npcs. The story is solid and i like the gunfights. Not a bad game but definitely not great gane
  84. guener
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    Overhyped. It's not a revolutionary game. Only a good game. I enjoyed enough, because had no too much expectations. I wish they had fixed the bugs first. I could've wait till 2021. I'm sure they'll fix them all in a couple month but... yeah. 7 out of 10, not more.
  85. Joa111
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    Can be great, needs alot of work

    To be honest ive only played this game for 3 hours... but!

    This game could have been great but they released it way too soon, its not ready, it needs another 1-2 years work!

    My refund has been approved by Steam.
  86. WilliamTewinter
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To my great regret, Cyberpunk is not the game I wanted to see. The developers removed from the release version everything that attracted me to the game since its announcement. Running on walls; a system of reputation that REALLY affects the game world; a system for making REALLY important decisions that REALLY affect the game world; a system of implants that affect the attitude of game characters towards you (and much more). No. None of this is in the final version of the game. All tasks are monotonous (kill 10 enemies in this location and take the chest with the reward or go there and save that person). That's all the "open" world of Cyberpunk offers. For me, Cyberpunk 2077 is the disappointment of the year.

    P.S. there will be a spoiler Next (please be careful), but this particular moment in the game disappointed me so much that when I reached it, I no longer started the game. I just don't want to go back to this game world. Well. I'm talking about the death of our partner, Jackie. This is just a terrible moment from the point of view of the scenario and game logic. At that time, I had exactly 109 first-aid kits in my inventory. And I was not given the opportunity to give my partner at least 1 of them to save him! This is one. Two. This is the world of cyberpunk AND it is possible to replace any part of the body with a mechanical one. But we are not given the opportunity to save Jackie this way, although just a few minutes later we are saved, but not from a simple wound that was in the partner, but from a BULLET IN the HEAD. And I have a question: WHAT GUIDED THE SCREENWRITER WHEN WRITING THIS PLOT MOVE?! Death in the story for the sake of death?! Without the right to influence her in any way? Then let Jackie shoot DeShawn like he did us. Then it would be LOGICAL and we would know for sure that we could not save our partner! And so we just stole the right to choose in a game that promised a REAL opportunity to influence the course of game events! We were given a real opportunity to influence the game world back in the days of the first mass effect and dragon age, not to mention the first Witcher! But here-NOTHING. Just accept that you are in this game world. And all. Oh, and such was the potential! Such ideas and promises! But, alas. At this point in time, only Larian Studios and their Baldur's gate 3 give the player a real opportunity to influence something in the game world. You should be ashamed of yourself, alas cd projekt red.    … Expand
  87. LeithanS
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    This game should be an easy ten star game but “holy bugs Batman”! I’m not talking about “Fallout 4” anoying kind of bugs but game play stopping kind. Less then a week in and all ready 2 massive patches. The game is absolutely gorgeous, the story is amazing and it sucks you in, one story scene actually teared me up a little. If I had one criticism not related to bugs, it would be the paceThis game should be an easy ten star game but “holy bugs Batman”! I’m not talking about “Fallout 4” anoying kind of bugs but game play stopping kind. Less then a week in and all ready 2 massive patches. The game is absolutely gorgeous, the story is amazing and it sucks you in, one story scene actually teared me up a little. If I had one criticism not related to bugs, it would be the pace of the main quest, their is a tone of side quest content, but there isn’t any really obvious lulls in the main story to take a break and explore. The pace of the main quest sucks you along with it and you have to really try to branch out and explore. There is a hell of a lot going on in this game and some things just don’t get explained. Like bounties, how, where, if at all do you get rewarded for for them? I really love this game so far, but for the bugs this game would be a 10.… Expand
  88. Holypeanut
    Dec 13, 2020
    6
    If the game is not ready yet CDPR should have delayed it. Its very saddening to see Cyberpunk 2077 launch like this. It is unfortunately glitchy in its current state. But that doesn't mean it will stay like that. The CDPR will surely patch it up day by day.
  89. Popslop
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    Never mind the technical issues - I'm running this windowed at the Medium preset with an ancient processor and an R9 380X, and I've experienced no crashes and can maintain performance at 40 fps or better 90+% of the time. Even without ray tracing and many features dialed way down (or turned off completely) the game is absolutely gorgeous to look at. Some texture pop-in and draw distanceNever mind the technical issues - I'm running this windowed at the Medium preset with an ancient processor and an R9 380X, and I've experienced no crashes and can maintain performance at 40 fps or better 90+% of the time. Even without ray tracing and many features dialed way down (or turned off completely) the game is absolutely gorgeous to look at. Some texture pop-in and draw distance issues here and there, but nothing remotely like a deal-breaker.
    The game itself? Well, it's the most aggressively mediocre, massively overhyped major release in gaming history, IMO. There's nothing new here. It's just GTA V meets Far Cry 3, with none of the former's many charms and none of the latter's functionality. The character and inventory systems leave much to be desired, no time seems to have been spent on world-building, and the quests feel perfunctory and slapdash right from the jump.
    Even once its many technical issues are patched up, history will not be kind to this release. It's simply not a great game. If you'd surprised me with this five years ago and told me after I'd sunk a few hours into it that CDPR was responsible for it, I literally would never - ever - have believed you. They should be embarrassed.    … Expand
  90. AvianZ
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    People are defending this game as if their life depended on it. Jeez Calm down. Not all Criticism is bad.

    Its Buggy, Its Unfinished, Performance is poor, You will be ripped out of your immersion quite a few times. It will crash quite a few times. But its also funny as hell. BUT, give it a few months, and it will probably be a masterpiece, shame it will never live up to the hype with    People are defending this game as if their life depended on it. Jeez Calm down. Not all Criticism is bad.

    Its Buggy, Its Unfinished, Performance is poor, You will be ripped out of your immersion quite a few times. It will crash quite a few times. But its also funny as hell.

    BUT, give it a few months, and it will probably be a masterpiece, shame it will never live up to the hype with a launch as crappy as this one, everything that could've gone wrong, went wrong.

    dont lie to yourself guys, this game is no Masterpiece in the state its currently at. And were not supposed to rate "Potential" were supposed to rate a full game which supposedly was already finished months ago. And costs money :^)

    As is goes for Last Gen Console, people are defending CDPR for literally releasing a BROKEN game.
    Quite a low point dont you think ?

    Just wait a few Months.    … Expand
  91. b0uncyfr0
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    Do not buy this game in its current state. There is no way in hell its a 10/10. No game is perfect. Just use common sense.

    The AI is lifeless and dead. Everything they promised regarding NPC's was a lie, look at youtube videos yourself. The world is dead and lifeless. No dynamicness like in RDR2, its not even close. Performance is crappy and extremely blurry even on PC's Reviews    Do not buy this game in its current state. There is no way in hell its a 10/10. No game is perfect. Just use common sense.

    The AI is lifeless and dead. Everything they promised regarding NPC's was a lie, look at youtube videos yourself.
    The world is dead and lifeless. No dynamicness like in RDR2, its not even close.
    Performance is crappy and extremely blurry even on PC's

    Reviews copy's for console's were not allowed and revealed only after launch - why do you think that is?

    CP2077 is not ready. Don't buy into the hype, save your money and buy it in a year's time.    … Expand
  92. mrrobost
    Dec 13, 2020
    5
    Average plot without truly memorable twists/characters and all the rest (especially game play mechanics) below modern standards.
    It would be a good remaster but instead it is a modern game that looks like games created when studio launched this project.
    Bugs are everywhere and no matter if they fix that it doesn't change the overall perception and frankly I will not be there to re-check.    Average plot without truly memorable twists/characters and all the rest (especially game play mechanics) below modern standards.
    It would be a good remaster but instead it is a modern game that looks like games created when studio launched this project.
    Bugs are everywhere and no matter if they fix that it doesn't change the overall perception and frankly I will not be there to re-check.
    I wasn't hyped, didn't track the production process, expected another AAA game (basing on production time and size of the studio) but received a product that simply doesn't meet market standard.    … Expand
  93. Idoco
    Dec 14, 2020
    7
    I currently have around 40 hours on the game and I did not encounter any serious bug .. yes there are glitches but not something deal breaker .. I enjoy the game and keep playing but it does not come close to the level of The witcher .. the story and characters are not so interesting .. When I arrive to interesting and beautiful places there is not even one npc who communicates with me andI currently have around 40 hours on the game and I did not encounter any serious bug .. yes there are glitches but not something deal breaker .. I enjoy the game and keep playing but it does not come close to the level of The witcher .. the story and characters are not so interesting .. When I arrive to interesting and beautiful places there is not even one npc who communicates with me and gives background on the place which is very pity .. and unfortunately not really interesting side missions. . I really like CDPR and rpg games but unfortunately the game is not deep enough and interesting and does not meet a good threshold (not to mention a crazy threshold following all the hype)… Expand
  94. Prokill1988
    Dec 14, 2020
    5
    Where do i start, game has so much potential that was totally missed.

    Pros - Game looks amazing - Story is engaging Cons - World feels dead, nothing to do - Horrible AI - Aweful RPG elements - Crafting is meh - Super linear story - Choices mean nothing Honestly this game has the impossible task of living up to the hype and it failed, while ive had fun playing it and will    Where do i start, game has so much potential that was totally missed.

    Pros
    - Game looks amazing
    - Story is engaging

    Cons
    - World feels dead, nothing to do
    - Horrible AI
    - Aweful RPG elements
    - Crafting is meh
    - Super linear story
    - Choices mean nothing

    Honestly this game has the impossible task of living up to the hype and it failed, while ive had fun playing it and will most likely finish it. Cant say its been the amazing game i expected.

    CDPR hope you learn from this    … Expand
  95. Frannah
    Dec 14, 2020
    7
    Honest review of Cyberpunk 2077.

    Cyberpunk 2077 was easily one of my most anticipated games of this decade, so like many others I was at large on the hype train for the game's release. After countless delays and many years of waiting we finally got to play the game and after experiencing the title for myself I'm left both amazed and severly dissappointed. For starters Cyberpunk 2077    Honest review of Cyberpunk 2077.

    Cyberpunk 2077 was easily one of my most anticipated games of this decade, so like many others I was at large on the hype train for the game's release. After countless delays and many years of waiting we finally got to play the game and after experiencing the title for myself I'm left both amazed and severly dissappointed.

    For starters Cyberpunk 2077 is a great game with a fantastic story and beyond stunning visuals, but being a triple-A RPG requires more than just story and graphics to succeed in my books. I finished the game's main story line in roughly 25 hours and was afterwards thrown in to a huge open world with countless sidequests and.. and.. that's about it. I was surprised by how immensly empty the city feel. There's a huge lack of activities and RPG elements that're so important for a game of this genre. Repeatable activities such and racing and various other mini games are what really adds to an open world game, but there's hardly any. Not only that, but things like barbers, car customization, weapon customization and other elements that give the player more choices and freedom are also missing. I don't expect CP77 to be the next GTA, because it's not. It's an RPG, but it's a very lackluster RPG without these basic features.

    Secondly, there's the bugs.. and holy sh*t.. this game is buggy. I get that they kinda forced themselves in a corner where they couldn't delay the game further, but I now understand just how badly it needed yet another delay. Found it extremely difficult to enjoy the main storyline without constantly having to worry about things glitching and quests bugging out because they did.. they did very often. Hopefully over the next couple of months they'll sort most of the crucial bugs out, but it'll take a massive amount of work.

    That being said I did still enjoy the game overall, but these issues kept me feeling like it could've been and should've been a lot better than it is. I'm extremely eager to see what the coming months/years will bring to Cyperpunk 2077, both in terms of DLC and bug fixes, but for now I can't give the game a higher score, despite how badly I want to.    … Expand
  96. Sidfire
    Dec 14, 2020
    5
    Terrible physics and poor AI Npc’s, nothing ‘next gen’ about it. Disappointed.
  97. JimTheTorai
    Dec 14, 2020
    6
    Main story is a little short. But side quests are amazing. Beside, have so many bugs in the game. So many that will make your playing experience become so bad. But i think CPR will fix it in the future
  98. Dossed
    Dec 14, 2020
    5
    At the moment i realize this was going to be first person i began to feel like this wasn't the game i was expecting, it does not make scene to sacrifice the whole visual customization only for a few shooter mechanics that are forgotable, and the fact that they name the game cyberpunk but they obvied the overpopulation that its a fubdamental caracteristic of this genre/style it really dragsAt the moment i realize this was going to be first person i began to feel like this wasn't the game i was expecting, it does not make scene to sacrifice the whole visual customization only for a few shooter mechanics that are forgotable, and the fact that they name the game cyberpunk but they obvied the overpopulation that its a fubdamental caracteristic of this genre/style it really drags me down, if you gonna apropiate a whole conceptat least make it right...… Expand
  99. Adrinariux
    Dec 15, 2020
    5
    The map, graphics and the quests are what make the game shine, but thats it.
    The game is missing a lot of costumize contents, like changing V apparance during the game, costumize cars, buying new homes , random events and horrrible npc AI .The game have a beautiful cenário, but it feels shallow because of the lack of Interact you can make in the world
  100. Cproj88
    Dec 15, 2020
    5
    Needs a lot of patching. I would wait to buy the game until they finish optimizing it
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 92 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 76 out of 92
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 92
  3. Negative: 1 out of 92
  1. CD-Action
    Jun 9, 2021
    90
    The best metaphor for Cyberpunk 2077 is Johnny Silverhand himself. A messiah, a mix of Kurt Cobain and Che Guevara, a talented singer who loves to shape his own legend and has a charming personality but loses the struggle with his own demons. The same goes for the game. It tells a great story and forced me to ask myself difficult questions, but many of its gameplay mechanics do not evolve and its technical state upon release was abysmal. Cyberpunk’s true hero is not a person, but Night City – a vibrant, living creature of great diversity. The beauty of the metropolis is striking. [01/2021, p.22]
  2. IGN Portugal
    May 28, 2021
    90
    Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most disturbing and mind-blowing RPGs in history, where every decision has a deep impact on our trail. CD Projekt RED tosses us to the center of a city filled with disgusting delights where every character deserves our attention in an immersive experience and overall, very rewarding. From the sarcastic and shadowy tone imposed by the countless scenes in the game, to the flexibility we have on the choices to face every situation that is presented, Night City is truly memorable. It’s a shame that the countless bugs spoil or diminish the impact of some resounding moments, but we are without a question, in the presence of one of the best games in 2020.
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  3. GAMES.CH
    Mar 3, 2021
    88
    Measured against the extreme expectations, Cyberpunk 2077 can't fulfill any of them. But all in all, despite the countless small weaknesses and inconsistences, with interesting characters, great story and dialogues or the freedom concerning gameplay, CD Projekt delivers a unique and great RPG that every fan of the genre needs to play.
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