Came at it with very low expectations. Was very happy to discover that it went as far as giving you a big city space to walk around in, drive cars in, and crash cars in.

Now, there were plenty of visual issues. Flickering textures, objects popping in, framerate instability, and lighting acting strangely. I was not massively bothered by these things. I understood the whole thing to be more of a rough proof of concept rather than a polished and perfected piece.

The technology is exciting. It was incredible seeing the early on-rails segment of the game, seeing near-movie-like graphics rendering live. The free-roam segment is beautiful as well, though it isn't quite as stunningly new.

It was nice fun to throw a couple of hours of time at, taking the time to admire the visuals and test the settings, race through the city, torment npcs, and try to viciously ram into traffic to admire the destruction physics of the cars. It gave me a glimpse of what the coming generations of games are gonna look like, and I'm very excited.