Well oh well, the infamy of the decade...
I can't say with confidence that I had the TRU EXPIRIENS with the game, for I haven't encountered any crashes or abysmal bugs, all I came across where some visual bugs here and there and stuttering in some areas. I will now hand over the gamer license and walk away.
Yes, the hype and immense hate at equal parts clouded what was really a GTA with more aesthetic pretensions. A GTA with less ways of interaction than the last GTA, where the skies are painted with higher ceilings and winding highways, but the floors are all hard concrete. An exercise on neon landscaping with a very relevant music score, but where the sensibilities are the same as every cyberpunk game in the last "forever" and the execution follows the same-old open-world mission system with the same bits and structures.
But I liked this better than GTA V for the sole reason that, at least, they are aware of the setting they're working with and can write some compelling characters and interesting backgrounds. I've been able to see it through till the end thanks to the side-characters and to see their struggles, to at least bring some comfort to their lives in this digital über-capitalist hellhole of a city. Maybe the only sound thing to do is meeting new people, and leave this world behind with them to never return
I can't say with confidence that I had the TRU EXPIRIENS with the game, for I haven't encountered any crashes or abysmal bugs, all I came across where some visual bugs here and there and stuttering in some areas. I will now hand over the gamer license and walk away.
Yes, the hype and immense hate at equal parts clouded what was really a GTA with more aesthetic pretensions. A GTA with less ways of interaction than the last GTA, where the skies are painted with higher ceilings and winding highways, but the floors are all hard concrete. An exercise on neon landscaping with a very relevant music score, but where the sensibilities are the same as every cyberpunk game in the last "forever" and the execution follows the same-old open-world mission system with the same bits and structures.
But I liked this better than GTA V for the sole reason that, at least, they are aware of the setting they're working with and can write some compelling characters and interesting backgrounds. I've been able to see it through till the end thanks to the side-characters and to see their struggles, to at least bring some comfort to their lives in this digital über-capitalist hellhole of a city. Maybe the only sound thing to do is meeting new people, and leave this world behind with them to never return