![]() This is where Cyberpunk 2077 is at its best. I could have skipped ahead time, but instead decided to just roam around the neighborhood to take in Night City. In the first few hours, I needed to go to a nightclub, but had to wait for it to open at 6 p.m. Night City is the star of the show and it is a heck of a star. The depth in Night City is incredible though. Watch Dogs probably did the hacking side better, but in both games, shooting is the filler to get to everything else. It reminded me of the Watch Dogs games, which also have hacking as a way to gain an upper hand in an encounter using the environment around you. The thing is, the gameplay is nothing special. Cyberpunk runs smoothly in terms of frame rate, at least to my eye, and while there are some weird bugs and glitches, they didn’t rise above what you would expect from a dense, detailed open-world game. Performance wise, that tutorial misstep was not a sign of things to come. During the combat tutorial, a button prompt required to progress was non-responsive and I had to restart the game. Once getting through the opening missions, Cyberpunk 2077 takes you through a slew of tutorials. You can mix and match male or female voice, genitals and facial hair, for example, however you want. There is some flexibility with genders as well. You can even choose genitals, in full view in the character creator. The cyberpunk style combining punk rock with technology merging human and machine heavily influences the choices. There’s a detailed suite of options to make your version of V, the main character. The first thing you do when starting up the game is create your character. ![]() For those of us without high-end PCs that apparently had fewer issues at launch, this signifies the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. But that’s why I waited and why reviewing the next-gen patch and its upgrades is relevant. I was almost expecting it to blow up and be a buggy mess, waiting for a crash around every corner. It’s funny playing and reviewing a game with such a backstory 14 months after launch. Night City, the host city to this first-person open-world action game, is beautiful, dense, detailed and a ton of fun to explore, even if the gameplay rarely goes beyond ordinary. While there still are some bugs, the overall experience of the game does not suffer because of them. ![]() This is not a comprehensive review of a game that includes dozens of hours of content, but it is clear that Cyberpunk 2077 can capably run on a PlayStation 5. ![]() I played it on a PlayStation 5, having never played the game before. 15, more than 14 months after its initial release. Screenshot: Cyberpunk 2077ĬD Projekt Red released next-gen versions of Cyberpunk 2077 for the PlayStation 5 and XBox Series S and X on Feb. It struggled to run on base PlayStation 4s and Xbox Ones despite the new generations of those consoles being extremely hard to find and only on the market for a month when Cyberpunk launched in December of 2020. Its technical performance could be described as buggy, at best, and failed to live up to lofty expectations. Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed three times in 2020 before finally releasing in a messy state. What seemed like a sure thing has become an infamous story in video games. By the time Cyberpunk 2077 got a full trailer for E3 2018, CD Projekt Red’s reputation was sky-high following the 2015 release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which won game of the year awards and has sold 30 million copies.Ī new IP from the studio behind The Witcher had fans excited, especially after those fancy trailers. When developer CD Projekt Red announced it back in 2013, it was a cool concept from the makers of The Witcher franchise. Cyberpunk 2077 has had quite the journey.
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