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  1. Dec 13, 2020
    4
    The state this game was released in on base consoles is unacceptable. Something like this qualifies as unplayable in 2020. This game needs serious optimization for PS4 (frequent crashes, low quality visuals and textures, terrible performance, incomplete features). Everything just looks and feels like some Closed Beta version meant for the PS3.

    The game also needs proper AI for the
    The state this game was released in on base consoles is unacceptable. Something like this qualifies as unplayable in 2020. This game needs serious optimization for PS4 (frequent crashes, low quality visuals and textures, terrible performance, incomplete features). Everything just looks and feels like some Closed Beta version meant for the PS3.

    The game also needs proper AI for the Police and non essential NPCs. The stealth system needs serious improvements; same goes for the melee combat. There's way too much junk-type loot in the game and crafting is sub-par. You can't customise the appearance of your character once past the creation screen. Vehicles can't be tuned or personalised. Transmogrification (or a similar system) it's a MUST and needs to be implemented. The UI needs improvements (especially when it comes to inventory management).

    Three days after the release, I'm giving this game a 4/10; would've rated it lower but they've actually done a good job on the level/city design, sound and music, story and quests, animations and models for the main characters.

    Verdict: Decent game delivered in an incomplete and unplayable state, ruined by deceiving marketing, shady review policies and essentially lack of QA and optimisation. Very disappointing and a shame CDPR chose to do business this way.
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  2. Dec 14, 2020
    4
    Sin nada más que añadir, todo el bodrio que hay debajo de este juego ya esta dicho por la comunidad, una de las estafas más grandes en el mundo de los videojuegos.
  3. Dec 14, 2020
    4
    How can a game be this buggy after 8 MONTHS WORTH OF DELAYS and it's really sad to see 8 years into the making of this game and just to turn out like this but hopefully they can atleast fix the bugs but until then I'm making a refund until it's atleast playable.
  4. Dec 14, 2020
    4
    El juego esta roto, la idea es buena pero pobremente ejecutada, esta lleno de buggs, bajones de frames, la ciudad esta muerta y los npc's desalmados. de momento recomiendo esperar antes de comprarlo.
  5. Dec 14, 2020
    4
    Having lots of fun playing this game. A few glitches and have had it crash on me once, but I've played bathesda launch titles. Driving is a pain but I don't play GTA or other driving games other than mario Cart. I walk everywhere and get into trouble. Run into shootouts with cops or gangs mugging people.
  6. Dec 14, 2020
    4
    Main story is cool but it doesn't work properly and is full of bugs. Everything else I've experienced is a dumpster fire. Shoot outs and driving will run at 15 fps. I don't even know what to say. I've experienced every glitch I've seen on YouTube and beyond. I've never played such a broken game on launch. Once again I'm speechless at this.
  7. Dec 14, 2020
    4
    The game looks like a bad ps3 game, the mechanics are off when picking up items. The can be tuned to decent up close but the depth of field is horrible. Some items from a far look ps2ish and you can barely make them out. Even with all the bugs and bad scenery to me it’s still a fun game.
  8. Jan 1, 2021
    4
    This alternative trailer says it all: https://youtu.be/CqEMEjJj4hs

    Does play quite well when you upgrade to SSD, but yeah - will still crash hourly, but it was intriguing enough for me to restart the game and keep on going. So what can I say. The setting, the art direction, the music and some characters are just awesome. Early story carries well, but it does get lost at the second
    This alternative trailer says it all: https://youtu.be/CqEMEjJj4hs

    Does play quite well when you upgrade to SSD, but yeah - will still crash hourly, but it was intriguing enough for me to restart the game and keep on going.

    So what can I say. The setting, the art direction, the music and some characters are just awesome. Early story carries well, but it does get lost at the second half of the game and there was a point in my play-through where I just felt ... well ... nothing ... every character who was still around and every story-line that was still open just made me feel empty. I did keep on going, but I had this eerie feeling that the best part of the game was over and I was never proven wrong. The soul of the game packed its briefcases and waved goodbye and never came back.

    I'd say that the game does introduce interesting entertainment approach where you end up being more amused/engaged by the videos of the bugs that the game has than from actually playing the game.

    It was released too early and I'm quite sure that the person in charge was just trying to impress some higher-ups and is probably going to lose or already lost their job. My respect to every person in CDRP who fought against releasing the game in its current state knowing all too well that it needed a couple of extra years to be fully completed (I'm quite sure this goes to all the developers involved as I find it hard to believe that they were not aware that almost none of the aspects of the engine or game systems could be deemed to be stable).

    What makes me saddest of all is that the world created deserved so much richer, longer, colourful story than what we got. What happened? This is what you are left with: what happened.

    Looking forward to GDC post-mortem on this game years from now.
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  9. Dec 15, 2020
    4
    This game is in border of unplayable. Crashes , full of bugs and hideous frames. Textures take an age to load and the graphs are like i am playing some ps3 cheap game.
  10. Dec 15, 2020
    4
    When I first played Witcher 3, after a year of it's release, I was astonished. The game was absolutely amazing. Hands down in my top 5. I also was familiar with the Cyberpunk universe and a huge fan, having GMed Cyberpunk 2020 in the '90s. Needles to say, my expectations were high. Then I finally got CP2077... What a let down... Don't get me wrong, everything is there - story and lorewise,When I first played Witcher 3, after a year of it's release, I was astonished. The game was absolutely amazing. Hands down in my top 5. I also was familiar with the Cyberpunk universe and a huge fan, having GMed Cyberpunk 2020 in the '90s. Needles to say, my expectations were high. Then I finally got CP2077... What a let down... Don't get me wrong, everything is there - story and lorewise, but the blurry graphics, sub bar game mechanics, messy menus and the multitude of bugs... The state of the game is just that of an alpha testing phase. I will try it out again when I get my hands on a PS5. Expand
  11. Dec 15, 2020
    4
    This is a pretty fun game, if you can play it at all. I've had crashes, frame drops, non-rendering NPCs. This is my first review on metacritic, so please bear with me. These critiques are in no particular order.

    Positives: This game has okay graphics on my PS4 Slim, with patch 1.04 installed. The storyline is pretty interesting, I got emotionally connected with some characters
    This is a pretty fun game, if you can play it at all. I've had crashes, frame drops, non-rendering NPCs. This is my first review on metacritic, so please bear with me. These critiques are in no particular order.

    Positives:

    This game has okay graphics on my PS4 Slim, with patch 1.04 installed.

    The storyline is pretty interesting, I got emotionally connected with some characters and completely hated others, or gave some sort of respect to them because of who they are in the game. I felt pretty immersed.

    Gameplay is alright, not groundbreaking or revolutionary, but it's still alright.

    The city is beautiful. I love the graffiti, the slums, the expensive buildings for the rich people. It is honestly beautiful.

    Negatives:

    It seems like cybernetic augmentations don't do much to change gameplay. I wish that they had a more prominent impact on gameplay and decisions in-game.

    The perks aren't too interesting either- they seem mediocre at best.

    The control scheme isn't too shabby when you're not in the menus. Pressing circle to skip dialogue and also having to press circle to crouch/dodge was not a good idea. For example, I was on a phone call and some bad guys shown up. I like to bob and weave and crouch and strike so I had a 10 second phone call that was supposed to last minutes at least.

    In the inventory screen or shop screens, things can get pretty laggy. You can't mass-sell items from your inventory, you must select them one at a time. When you sell an item, it seems like the inventories (both yours and the shop-keeps) literally refresh/rerender. It's honestly not a good inventory or trading system IMO.

    As for NPCs, there are very little of them spread across the city. They aren't next gen, either. Night City is supposed to be this huge, densely populated city and it does not seem that way at all. I can drive on the highway, through the streets and see maybe 8 or 9 cars on a 3 kilometer drive.

    The police NPCs seem to be the worst. You stand next to them for 3 seconds and they'll shoot you for looking at them wrong. They don't patrol the city, they don't have an acceptable wanted system. They're like the Institute (from FO4), waiting for you to commit a heinous act before TELEPORTING right behind you. You run just a little distance away and all of a sudden, it's too far for them to search/look for you and bam, you're off the hook.

    The looting mechanic seems off to me. IMO, I think it's too much. The looting mechanic and inventory systems don't work together well. Disassembling, selling or equipping items can lead to a crash, or a laggy screen.

    Also you can't seem to customize your character anymore after the initial character creation. No barbers, tattoo shops, plastic surgeons. it might be a small gripe, but I just wish that these were in the game.

    There are plenty of bugs/glitches that happen during gameplay. Sometimes during story missions, sometimes not. I've had random crashing throughout my gameplay. It must've crashed 5 or 6 times while just doing the main missions.

    The next particular couple of sentences don't have to do anything with the game itself and does not affect the review score: I wish that I could've seen and read honest reviews for the "previous gen" consoles before securing my game. I'm not happy with the current state that this game has the gaming community in, and I feel like on some level, CDPR has betrayed what trust we, the community, has given them.

    I'm not sure if there is anything else to say. I can actually see the progress being made by the dev team, so I have hope for this game. I hope they pull a No Man's Sky, this game definitely needs a turn around. I'd love to play again in the next year or two, but for now, I think i'll take a break.
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  12. Dec 15, 2020
    4
    Jogo bugado demais, ao ponto de incomodar ao invés de me fazer rir, uma vergonha CD Project Red
  13. Dec 15, 2020
    4
    Runs great on the PS5. I have over 60 hours and enjoyed most of them all. It does crash about once an hour but overall I've enjoyed it.
  14. Dec 16, 2020
    4
    DO NOT play this game on the base PS4. I played it for about 15 hours before my PS5 arrived and
    my opinion is than, on a base PS4 model the game is simply not worth it. The framerate makes the game almost unplayable, texture fail to load in time (which is unacceptable not only because it makes the game look bad, but also because it breaks the gameplay. Imagine driving around Night City
    DO NOT play this game on the base PS4. I played it for about 15 hours before my PS5 arrived and
    my opinion is than, on a base PS4 model the game is simply not worth it. The framerate makes the game almost unplayable, texture fail to load in time (which is unacceptable not only because it makes the game look bad, but also because it breaks the gameplay. Imagine driving around Night City and suddenly hitting an invisible car or obstacle because it hasn't loaded yet) and there are too many glitches that break the immersion and wreck the experience (waay more glitches than what you see in games like Skyrim, GTA or The Witcher and in my opinion more glitches than what should be acceptable in any game).
    After I got my PS5 the experience was much better when it comes to framerate and visual (especially if you are used to playing on console). There are still a lot of glitches and crashes, but the experience is more than enjoyable and the game was actually very good. A very immersive world, good story archs (specially side quest), interesting characters and everything you would expect from this game. However given the level of technical problems the game has on the base PS4 and urge everyone to get a refund if you can and buy it again, either when patches have fixed the experience or when you can play on another platform (I haven't experienced the game on a PS4 Pro but from what i have seen online, the experience is much more acceptable).

    Personally I don't like how CDPR approached this, because in my opinion, there's no way they didn't know all the problems the based version had. And they should not be given a free pass no matter how good the game is. Remember there is no "next-gen" version of the game the game was officially released of PS4, XBOX ONE and PC and in my opinion all those versions of the game must get a minimum level of quality that CDPR simply didn't meet
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  15. Dec 16, 2020
    4
    It's sheeeeeet. Thank you for reading my opinion...........................
  16. Dec 16, 2020
    4
    Very mediocre game. Without the bugs it would be a 6. Absolutely broken AI, driver AI, and vehicle physics. Absolutely broken wanted system, complete lack of RPG elements. **** **** game
  17. Dec 17, 2020
    4
    Tons of potential. Littered with bugs. Wish text and menu fonts were bigger.
  18. Dec 17, 2020
    4
    This game just makes me sad. This game has the potential to be something really special but is just marred with immersion breaking bugs and glitches. I simply cannot be immersed into this games world for more than 10 minutes before something inevitably happens that takes me out of it. The amount of content here is huge and varied even after you complete the main story line, but I justThis game just makes me sad. This game has the potential to be something really special but is just marred with immersion breaking bugs and glitches. I simply cannot be immersed into this games world for more than 10 minutes before something inevitably happens that takes me out of it. The amount of content here is huge and varied even after you complete the main story line, but I just can't bring myself to play any of them until they fix the bugs that plague this. Seeing as how I played this game via backwards compatibility on a PS5, I had not experienced any FPS performance issues, If I had it would have scored much lower. Expand
  19. Dec 17, 2020
    4
    Although I am experiencing less problems with the game than some of my friends since I’m playing on a PS5, the game still frequently crashes and has numerous bugs that are completely unacceptable. NPCs walk through objects, blip in and out of the game like they’re traveling through dimensions, and anytime I go to ride my motorcycle, I see my character load followed by all of his clothesAlthough I am experiencing less problems with the game than some of my friends since I’m playing on a PS5, the game still frequently crashes and has numerous bugs that are completely unacceptable. NPCs walk through objects, blip in and out of the game like they’re traveling through dimensions, and anytime I go to ride my motorcycle, I see my character load followed by all of his clothes popping out of thin air.

    The gameplay itself is nothing to brag about either. The idea that your choices would significantly impact events was overly hyped. Starting as a Nomad, for example, I’m occasionally given some additional dialog options based on that, but they don’t actually push the conversation forward. No matter what, I still have to select the single yellow line of text that allows for the prescripted event to keep flowing. If you wanna play an FPS RPG for the PS4, you seem better off playing something like Fallout 4 or The Outer Worlds.

    Other systems that were implemented also drastically fail to meet their mark. The wanted system for committing crimes is a cheap knock off of the system in GTA that doesn’t even work right. Police will literally magically appear behind you, even if there’s nowhere for them to come from, so either the NCPD are all equipped with teleporters and tracking devices, or that’s not right.

    Additionally, NPCs all act exactly the same way to everything. If you fire a gun, be prepared to see every single NPC cowering in fear, even if they weren’t in an area nearby you when there was shooting. If you try to stop a crime that’s occurring where people are around, even after killing the criminals and putting your gun away, they won’t change their pose either.

    You could literally go on and on about all of the issues this game has and still point out more. In its current state, I would give it a 6 or 7/10, but with all the bugs, I’m giving it a 4. Save yourself the time, and play something else. I’m personally shelving it, and I’ll wait to see if they make improvements. If they do, I’ll give it another try.
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  20. Dec 17, 2020
    4
    Game crashes,even on ps4 pro frame rate can drop to 15 fps and they showed all the demos on PC,when they were making this game in 2013/2014/2015/2016/2017/2018/2019 there was no ps5 or xsx. The teaser trailer CDPR made us think the capability of next gen in 2013 and even in 2016 with the release of PS4 Pro we didnt have games with the kind of graphics that they showed us in the teaserGame crashes,even on ps4 pro frame rate can drop to 15 fps and they showed all the demos on PC,when they were making this game in 2013/2014/2015/2016/2017/2018/2019 there was no ps5 or xsx. The teaser trailer CDPR made us think the capability of next gen in 2013 and even in 2016 with the release of PS4 Pro we didnt have games with the kind of graphics that they showed us in the teaser trailer. And they did even give people the beta version of the game even to reviewers that wont show it to the public. even if they had delayed the game to august 2021 and not have these bug,crashes,low resolution textures,low frame rates i think i would have liked that better. Expand
  21. Dec 18, 2020
    4
    PS4 Pro:

    Unfortunately, the game is not made for the old generation of consoles: - The game jerks and in the cities you often have low FPS, - it is best to leave the city as soon as possible as this is where the biggest lags and crashes occur. - The game often crashes and this for no exact reason 30 hours of playtime and about 22 crashes. - The game still has many character errors:
    PS4 Pro:

    Unfortunately, the game is not made for the old generation of consoles:

    - The game jerks and in the cities you often have low FPS, - it is best to leave the city as soon as possible as this is where the biggest lags and crashes occur.
    - The game often crashes and this for no exact reason 30 hours of playtime and about 22 crashes.
    - The game still has many character errors: non-loading characters, incorrectly loading characters with poor appearance and the genital looks through the clothing
    - objects loaded at a distance, such as cars, suddenly disappear
    - The phone often has problems such as not being able to answer a call, read text messages or make several calls at once in the same conversation
    - The movement is often blocked after quickly opening the map or the inventory
    - There are scenes in which a death can no longer be avoided due to an auto-save
    - There are different places where you fall through the world

    The story itself is good, even if it is a bit short, but the side quests and the map itself are really good. If the game gets better with the patches, the price is justified - currently not.

    I recommend playing the game on the PS5 or on a good PC where everything is much more fun.
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  22. Dec 18, 2020
    4
    I created an account just to rate the game on ps4. I count 25h on it so I already think that I had time to see for myself and gave it a chance. Not going to say anything that was not already said in 2020. The game has an amazing potential and feels attractive for its story. But releasing a version like this.. Buggy to the core, it's to wonder what cdpr did in those past 5 to 6 years.I created an account just to rate the game on ps4. I count 25h on it so I already think that I had time to see for myself and gave it a chance. Not going to say anything that was not already said in 2020. The game has an amazing potential and feels attractive for its story. But releasing a version like this.. Buggy to the core, it's to wonder what cdpr did in those past 5 to 6 years. Definitely a low blow. Expand
  23. Dec 18, 2020
    4
    In the current state 4/10. The game was not ready to be released. Saves corrupted when the game size gets to big, so don't craft items. With corrupted saves I had to restart, aaand character creator has everything green like the Grinch just had taco bell and chipotle and just let it spew out like a sewer drain. Needed at least another year maybe 2.
  24. Dec 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. if it weren't for a few crashes too many I would have given 5! it can definitely be improved but it keeps you hooked for hours Expand
  25. Dec 22, 2020
    4
    The game is broken. And some original game feature was deleted ..
    Train...Braindance....Flying car.....Car customize.....
    Some door can be opened but locked.. seem meaningless for show the door can be opened but cant.... chosen of character Lifepath at start was lame.... just more dialogue choice only. some part of story seem like deleted ( or rewrite ?)..skip half year with Jackie
    The game is broken. And some original game feature was deleted ..
    Train...Braindance....Flying car.....Car customize.....
    Some door can be opened but locked.. seem meaningless for show the door can be opened but cant....
    chosen of character Lifepath at start was lame.... just more dialogue choice only.
    some part of story seem like deleted ( or rewrite ?)..skip half year with Jackie
    the side quest are many but all not related....

    Anyway weapon, crafting, perk was good enough for me.....but still a bit under expectation of the game...
    Hope CD Red can fix it and add more features at future....
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  26. Dec 25, 2020
    4
    Male joytoy has disappeared among other glitches. Great concept, and obviously a lot of time went into development, but for an RPG fan there are limited relationship options, and not enough free play control like exploring the many buildings, buying real estate, traveling with your companion, etc. Could have been a 5, but falls way short.
  27. Dec 27, 2020
    4
    Я поиграл в кибербаг 2077 и хочу сказать, на пк и на консоле это разные игры как на пк это отличная игра просто 100/100, то на консоле это мыло где баги на каждом шагу, я играл и на пк и на консоле ( к слову у меня пс 4 про) на консоле баги были везде, к слову я гонял на мотике и 6-8 мпс были в позе рака что это такое смысл было выпускать игру?Я поиграл в кибербаг 2077 и хочу сказать, на пк и на консоле это разные игры как на пк это отличная игра просто 100/100, то на консоле это мыло где баги на каждом шагу, я играл и на пк и на консоле ( к слову у меня пс 4 про) на консоле баги были везде, к слову я гонял на мотике и 6-8 мпс были в позе рака что это такое смысл было выпускать игру?
  28. Dec 29, 2020
    4
    Quitándole los errores y los bugs y suponiendo que el juego hubiera salido completo

    Todavía sigue siendo un 4 el juego es sola mente divertido como para matar el tiempo pero para nada es innovador y mucho menos una obra maestra La ciudad es bonita pero esta totalmente muerta La edicion de personaje es mala y solo se hace una ves La IA es estupida y si la pones en Difícil sigue siendo
    Quitándole los errores y los bugs y suponiendo que el juego hubiera salido completo

    Todavía sigue siendo un 4 el juego es sola mente divertido como para matar el tiempo pero para nada es innovador y mucho menos una obra maestra La ciudad es bonita pero esta totalmente muerta La edicion de personaje es mala y solo se hace una ves
    La IA es estupida y si la pones en Difícil sigue siendo estupida lo único que cambia son la cantidad de balas para matarla Los únicos que merecen un premio en CD project son su equipo de marketing Después de todo el juego es un simple "Meh" el juego pasará sin pena y sin gloria solo decepción
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  29. Dec 31, 2020
    4
    This has little to no effort put into AI. The game has an abundant amount of glitches and bugs. It can’t hold steady frame rate and all that doesn’t even scratch the surface. It had so much put into details like these we really don’t need instead of proper AI, bug fixes, frame rate (there’s really no excuse as to why the frames are so bad because every other game seems to run fine, Gta 5This has little to no effort put into AI. The game has an abundant amount of glitches and bugs. It can’t hold steady frame rate and all that doesn’t even scratch the surface. It had so much put into details like these we really don’t need instead of proper AI, bug fixes, frame rate (there’s really no excuse as to why the frames are so bad because every other game seems to run fine, Gta 5 works fine on a “PS3”) and more. The game should not have released in the state it is, the scummy move of only allowing gameplay CDPR give to be shown plus no base console information at all. You just can’t defend this game or CDPR, I will admit the story and voice acting was great, but the cons are higher to climb then the pros. You can love this game but honestly you don’t have to and can’t defend it. I’ve played both the PS4 version and PC version. They have such a dramatic difference between how well each platform runs. You still struggle to hold a steady 60 FPS on a PS5. A few patches won’t fix this game, it needs a full reset. There’s too much content missing for it to just be fixed. It honestly feels more like a few dlcs then a game. The amount of content that should be in the game isn’t, it’s not even that much of an rpg, it’s a pretty bad rpg. Comparing this to other games in the same genre doesn’t quite make sense. You think that just because the others had bugs it makes this game justifiable. While those games had bugs, they also had content that cyberpunk doesn’t seem to have. This game is one of the biggest gaming disappointments of all time.

    I just have to put this out but keanu reeves performance was abismal he sounded like he was recording his lines like it was a coffee break. His performance was a huge disappointment, the voice acting of the other characters was actually really good. The NPCs that walk around or just sit there and the police have the worst voice acting and AI. I think the Dora game on wii had better AI.
    This game honestly shouldn’t have released it had great potential but just has too much missing. It’s like they wrote down everything they were gonna put in the game and just rubbed out most of them at random.
    P.S If the frames are bad now just wait til multiplayer releases.
    Great potential horrible execution.
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  30. Jan 6, 2021
    4
    The game is full of bugs and lack of innovation as they claimed. Very disappointed with this title.
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 38
  2. Negative: 9 out of 38
  1. CD-Action
    Jul 23, 2021
    60
    I launched Cyberpunk 2077 on my PS4 Slim several weeks after the release and most of the bugs were fixed, so I was able to play the game from start to finish. However, the quality of textures was painfully low, I usually had only 20-22 frames per second while driving around the city (with dips below 20), and some objects tended to disappear. The technical state and graphics of the PS4 version are awful, which is a shame, because the game itself has one of the best stories I have ever encountered, its gunplay is really good, and Night City is very impressive. [02/2021, p.30]
  2. Apr 8, 2021
    55
    This five and a half is especially for you, Metacritic.
  3. Feb 10, 2021
    75
    Cyberpunk 2077 is a game brimming with potential, and it damn near reaches it on so many occasions, but the pitfalls of its development ultimately drag it down. There's still a lot to like here for RPG fans and lovers of the genre, but it's far from the generation-defining masterwork that the world was waiting for.