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Pretty amazing and solid survival game. Progression is a little slow but otherwise pretty chill and fun game.

Cyberpunk 2077, what is there to say. We were promised a trove of features. It was pitched as being the next immersive, open world RPG.

It is definitely an immersive, open world experience. It is not an RPG. It is a gutted RPG.

Pros:

- Visually beautiful
- Story is gripping and characters are engaging generally speaking
- Side missions aren't all trash

Cons
- No police/law system: they just spawn in increasingly stronger hordes. Crimes are instantly detected regardless of context. No police chases, you can escape by changing vertical distance or running/driving around 500m.
- Gunplay is basic, nothing special or new.
- Cyberware is shallow and barely useful in most regards
- Scanning/eye wear is _severely_ under utilized.
- Crafting/gear is just basic pistol, rifle, shotty, LMG and sniper. Basically highest DPS wins
- Melee is awkward and basically feels like a shotgun with 2m range.
- Map is amazing screenshot material, but virtually no interiors not crucial to missions, no social/down time minigames
- NPCs in the game world are brainless, on rails two-trick ponies. They have one or two dialog pieces, the variation in NPC appearance and 'personality' is so repetative you will feel like you're in clone town.

RPG mean's roleplaying game, and in truth you play a 'role' and it's a game. But it's not in the genre of RPG.

It should be and it clearly was intended to be. There is a lot of obvious indications that deeper game mechanics and game play was planned and cut.

The bugs I can live with, I'd expect the mature industry of software development would be churning out innovative and mind blowing games, instead we get bottom of the barrel, lowest common denominator mechanics and pretty much no substance.

Even if they fix this with DLC and patches, it's not worth 60 euros, wait for sale WITH DLC included.

Sad because it had so much potential, but it ultimately was the wrong people to make it.

I'm Batman...

Review Preface:
Did you pay for Delux Edition? Did you unlock cosmetics? Do you want to play multiplayer? Well - get ready for fork over your personal information to Square Enix because why should you be able to play a game you paid for without strings attached?

And when you do play multiplayer - did you grind your character to get max level? Why bother? Your save is locally stored and can be hacked with cheatengine. You will be online with plenty of cheaters, which essentially cheapens any effort you may invest in this game.

My experience in the first 60 mins of gameplay:

Launch game, stuttering menu animations and frame drops in the intro...in 2020.

First level is pointless and ham-fisted and literally serves as a cheap way to have the protagonist get super-powers without any real effort or character development. The only character development we get is that shes strong, female and 'totally the biggest comic fan ever, omfg'. It then quickly segues into the campaign's first combat mission where you rotate through the various Avengers.

At this point, you play a corridor/on-rails style beat-em up getting exposure to the various mechanics for each hero. Thor can bash and throw Mjolnir, fight without it, pin enemies to the ground with Mjolnir, summon it and with all that, he can infuse himself with lightning powers. Then you get a run with Hulk, who smashes some stuff, his signature move is to grab people and use them as weapons...he can throw a rock and other than that, he feels pretty under-powered for the _hulk_. But I guess with progression, at max level he would be a beast? I don't know, I don't care as I refunded the game when I learned you can hack your save game as its stored offline. Then we get to play a little bit with Iron Man who is underwhelming to say the least. Again - I assume with upgrades Iron Man will get more powerful, but as it stands he has his Repulsor Blasts and Unibeam and can fly - slowly.

Next up we meet Cap America, who is probably the most enjoyable to play because the shield mechanic is kinda fun, you can ricochet the shield and get around enemies with riot-shields easily but again, Cap is 1pretty much a one-trick pony at this point in the game.

The finally we meet Black Widow, who has the super ability of being absolutely normal. Top Russian-trained Spy; she can kick, she can punch but most of all, she can provide the least utility on a team composed of a robotic exoskeleton, norse god, gamma radiated monster and a 120 year old Super Soldier. But its okay, she has pistols and stun batons. Which makes me think; if Lowest Common Denominator here can deal with all of the Avengers enemies with human level skills and weapons, then the rest of the Avengers are quite lame considering how much of a struggle the same enemies put up.

Then the combat level culminates in the most underwhelming boss fight. The boss is Taskmaster who has a shield, fire-sword and jet-pack. It is essentially a boss fight from Dark Souls, except the game feels less like it requires skill to over-come, and more like they've intentionally increased the difficulty in the first leg of the campaign to increase the chances players will hit their 2-hr playtime limit for refunds.

Needless to say, I refunded this hot mess. I'll probably pick it up on G2A when its 5 euro in the Xmas Sales.

• GRAPHICS [8/10]
  
• AUDIO [6/10]
  
• PHYSICS [6/10]
  
• OPTIMIZATION [2/10]
  
• VOICE ACTING [7/10]
  
• WRITING/STORY [1/10]
  
• WRITING/CHARACTERS [1/10]
  
• GAME MECHANICS [7/10]

TOTAL: 4.75/10

The last good Fallout game before the franchise totally went to crap.

Its missing a tonne of features but its cool building settlements in VR.

Just wish Bethesda wasn't such a ♥♥♥♥ company that half-assed what could have been an amazing VR title. It feels like a mid-tier VR-enablement mod for Fallout 4.

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It's space.

An awesome concept for an ARPG that really feels like a motion comic.

Progression is a little easy at first but difficulty scales well.

Upgrade system is pretty neat as you gain boons from various Olympian gods that boost your dash, attack, special attacks or other attributes. Actual loot is a little lacking though, I was hoping for equipable items that were akin to the ragdoll in diablo/wow series where my character looks like the gear he's wearing.

But nontheless its a lovely game 10/10

Pretty awesome zombie apocolypse sim.