Night City is an incredible atmospheric city inhabited by a memorable roster of characters and fun questing featured with multiple paths and choices.
As far as interaction with the city goes most of it is harnessed through the quests while there's not really much else to do than driving around or buying from vendours. The traversing is simple and pretty seamless with easy fast traveling wherever you want. And considering how well done the individual quests were it didn't really hamper the experience for me, but I can see the simplicity of it being an issue for others.
The main story just felt like background noise and didn't really evolve into anything too interesting and if you just focus on the main campaign it can be a very underwhelming experience as well as a short playtime. However, the real draw of the story are the character side stories and Johnny Silverhand's (Keanu Reeves) character arc spanning throughout the entire game.
The gameplay borrows elements from games like GTA, Deus EX and Watch Dogs and there are both options for stealth or just brute forcing everything, every action you take gives you different perk points to specialise in different aspects of levelling up from a very vast skilltree, be it easier stealth, movement, hacking attributes, better gunplay etc.
There were a few bad softlocking bugs where npcs just froze up while escorting you in vehicles, or even in one instance drove out of a fucking bridge and got stuck underwater,. And in one of the main mission the npc wouldn't let me advance the story until I googled how to bypass another softlock..but other than that the experience was pretty seamless.
I'm glad I waited for the late ps 5 version though, as having an immersive presentation is such a key factor for a game like this.
As far as interaction with the city goes most of it is harnessed through the quests while there's not really much else to do than driving around or buying from vendours. The traversing is simple and pretty seamless with easy fast traveling wherever you want. And considering how well done the individual quests were it didn't really hamper the experience for me, but I can see the simplicity of it being an issue for others.
The main story just felt like background noise and didn't really evolve into anything too interesting and if you just focus on the main campaign it can be a very underwhelming experience as well as a short playtime. However, the real draw of the story are the character side stories and Johnny Silverhand's (Keanu Reeves) character arc spanning throughout the entire game.
The gameplay borrows elements from games like GTA, Deus EX and Watch Dogs and there are both options for stealth or just brute forcing everything, every action you take gives you different perk points to specialise in different aspects of levelling up from a very vast skilltree, be it easier stealth, movement, hacking attributes, better gunplay etc.
There were a few bad softlocking bugs where npcs just froze up while escorting you in vehicles, or even in one instance drove out of a fucking bridge and got stuck underwater,. And in one of the main mission the npc wouldn't let me advance the story until I googled how to bypass another softlock..but other than that the experience was pretty seamless.
I'm glad I waited for the late ps 5 version though, as having an immersive presentation is such a key factor for a game like this.