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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 234.9 hrs on record (79.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 21 Dec, 2020 @ 10:29pm

TLDR; I've played this game for about 80 hours now. I can thoroughly say that I am enjoying it. If you like this genre, don't mind a few bugs, and did NOT ride the hype train all the way to the station, you will probably like this game. If this is not the case you may want to do some research or wait 6-12 months for patches and some polish.

Please keep your PC Specs in mind before you purchase though.

Disclaimer:
I avoided basically all information about this game before it came out so that I could go into this without knowing anything or having preset expectations. I was hoping for some Deus Ex-ish type game and I haven't been disappointed. If you need a quick reference guide, I suppose you could say Deus Ex and GTA V had a premature baby.

Bugs:
I've encountered numerous Bethesda level bugs, things that could break me out of the immersion and others that just make me laugh. I've only crashed twice and had 2 game breaking bugs that required a load; luckily I quicksave often and the autosave is quite robust. All in all I haven't seen all the horrific things that the last gen console players and unfortunate PC players have been experiencing; but of course your mileage may very.

PC Specs:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) 7-4790K CPU @ 4.00 GHz
GPU: GTX 980
RAM: 16 GB

Hows it run?:
Pretty decent. Not as well as I would want by any means. I get frame drops here and there but nothing that makes it unplayable. No massive drops to 1 fps, even in incredibly busy areas. I have it on a mix of high an medium settings. I am usually sitting around anywhere from 25fps - 48fps, depending on location.

Recommendations:
There is a really solid game in here, granted without all of the polish that you might want or expect. There is still a tremendous amount of entertainment and fun to be had.

If you love the Cyberpunk genre, don't mind a few bugs, and did ride that hype train all the way to the collision point, I would highly recommend this game right now.

If you love the Cyberpunk genre, do mind bugs, and boarded the hype train all the way to the collision. Maybe wait 6-12 months. Pick it up next summer or christmas sale when there will hopefully be more polish and more content. In the meantime maybe go check out the Shadowrun series. There is a lot of fun to be had there in a Cyberpunk setting.

Final word:
Despite the launch disaster and the constant PR screw-ups by the company, I am still enjoying the game behind all of that; and I believe there is a little bit of something for everyone to enjoy. Stop looking for things to hate about something that is meant to bring you joy, and instead find reasons to enjoy gaming. Does this game have flaws? Ohhhh yea. Does that make it a bad game? No. If you let it, this game really can draw you into it's world and care about the story you're creating around you.
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