REVIEW – As Billy Idol sang in the most famous song of his then cyberpunk album: This game was a real shock to the system – both our equipment and our own nervous system felt it. It was a shock because – on a real PC – he had to cut the graphics with ray tracing at the same time, which put the machine to the test. It was also a shock for the owners of old consoles, because they had not seen such a scandalous launch in the last decade. But what was the quality of the game itself? We will share our experience after patch 1.06…
Cyberpunk 2077 is like a very difficult beast to tame. She just wants to be everything. An immense world, detailed, authentic, complex, full of possibilities, choices, consequences, playing styles. He set himself such an ambitious goal that the developers just lost control; the program is about to take on a life of its own – it’s a stand-alone piece of software like Johnny Silverhand himself, the second protagonist of the game and the digital mind: a former rocker, rebel and terrorist.
This city never sleeps.
If Night City, the capital of Cyberpunk 2077, is rather enchanting and dazzling if the game works as expected and captivates you, the magic is often broken by dazzling flaws. Enough of buggy NPCs making useless animations, an important object that suddenly disappears or hangs in the air, a character talking to you with his lips close to you, or a corpse lying still like in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet movie (except that it’s a direct and absurd artistic effect, but it’s a bug).
Yeah, the game still has those bugs, even after 1.06! These moments break the magical or otherwise well measured atmosphere of cyberpunk – because cyberpunk is not only the name of the game, it is the genre. Apart from the insects, Cyberpunk 2077 is an amazing escape for a journey to an alternative future to live a different life.
Three kinds of heroes
In the game you can rotate three types of characters: Street Guy, Corporate Genius (or Corps), and Nomad, and our hero can be either a man or a woman. Although we can’t recreate the physics of the characters in as much detail as in BioWare games, we still have a lot of choices. New in comparison with other RPGs is that we can model the naked body of our characters if we want (for example, the size of the penis for men and the shape of pubic hair for both sexes), but this has exactly no value during the game.
We can also design their functions – at first they’re not as complicated as in other role-playing games. However, our character’s skill system is much more complex, it’s very easy to get lost in it, and there are a lot of skills that didn’t help me much.
Before the adventure begins, each character has his own prologue, which is short but summarizes the real events.
Will William Gibson like this?
The history of the game is perhaps the greatest strength of Cyberpunk 2077. Without spoiling himself, let’s just see that our hero, a hacker named V, has to track down a special item, and at other times others track him down as he meets the digital ghost of Johnny Silverhand, the rocker, rebel and terrorist played by Keanu Reeves in the game.
The main story is not too long – it can be played in twenty hours – but it is well catered for with many twists and turns and interesting and more important characters and NPCs. Some of the secondary missions related to Silverhand are so complex that they can really be considered the main story and I’m sorry I have to miss them, while other missions that are not part of the main campaign are sometimes a bit general or uninteresting. But in general, the story is of very high quality, the best part of the game.
Multifunctional
In his gameplay, Cyberpunk 2077 tries to simulate a lot of game elements, as mentioned above, so it is not surprising that not all of them work perfectly. The CD project has of course mainly implemented an action RPG which, again, is more similar to the Borderlands games than the Witcher 3 game. In addition to the obvious first-person perspective of the shooting system, which takes into account the quality, strength, level and hits of the weapons, all of which are in Borderlands, for example, but we could also include stealth, which plays a much more important role here.
We can also be blind or kill an enemy with our fast hacking skills – the higher the level, the more deadly they are. We can also hack into their systems – in this case, we’re participating in a hacking mini-game that’s relatively fun, but I’ve seen better.
We can also drive cars and motorcycles and, just like in Grand Theft Auto games, we all fly here. The driving model of the game was pretty shitty in the early versions, but it’s been improved since then, even though it’s not perfect yet.
PC: like this
The Cyberpunk 2077 makes sense on a PC equipped with a ray-traced graphics card. But even on Geforce Now or Google Stadia the graphics are excellent – although the latter has no ray tracing. The game looks great on the PC, but I think everyone has heard (or seen for themselves) how bad it looks on PS4 and Xbox One consoles, with extremely bad graphics in some places. I don’t want to insist on this last point, since the whole press (and we) have discussed this subject a hundred times. The fact is that the textures on the console are low resolution and buggy, and the game has many other visual bugs, some of which have been fixed, but others are still unresolved. What’s more, you get the old version of the console even if you have a new generation X/S series Xbox console or a PS5, because only one version has been manufactured. The game works very well on XSX anyway, but unfortunately the PS5 version remains blocked…. The next generation console version will be released next year, with ray tracing and all modern hardware. So if you have a next-gen console and have resisted the temptation and missed Cyberpunk 2077, it might be worth waiting now for CD Project to finally make the next-gen version.
Finally, all that remains for me to say is that unfortunately there is one thing that is pretty awful everywhere, except for insects: artificial intelligence. Whether pedestrians or enemies, AI is fairly basic or virtually non-existent to passers-by. A video shows that it is even worse than the GTA III of 2001. We can only hope that the CD project will do this later and with patches…. will solve it later and with patches.
Game of the year and Biggest Disappointment of the year
This is no joke or exaggeration by the author: there was a vote in The Gamers – Hungarian Gamer Community, and the results showed that Cyberpunk 2077 is both the game of the year and the biggest disappointment of the year. This characterizes the game itself, which is fun at the same time, but we have also shed many tears because of the incessant amount of bugs, gels, lame AI and other errors. So it was a real shock to the system in every way, let’s hope CD Projekt corrects it to just be a shock in the right direction….
-Zardoz-
Professional:
+ Impressive Cyberpunk
atmosphere + Great story with Keanu Reeves
+ Giant graphics on PC and new generation
Against:
– On the old PS4 and Xbox One it’s the shame of the world (there’s a game with us 5.5)
– MI Blade
– The RPG part is unnecessarily hard in places
Publishing house: Project CD
Developer: Project CD
It’s just like: Action RPG / Adventure
Date of publication : 10. December 2020
REVIEW – Like Billy Idol sang in the most famous song of his cyberpunk album of the time: This game was a real shock to the system – both our equipment and our own nervous system felt it. It was a shock because he had to cut the graphics – on the computer on the right – at the same time, with ray tracing, which put the machine to the test. And it also shocked former console owners, because they hadn’t seen such a scandalous launch in the last decade. But how sweet…
Cyberpunk 2077 – The shock of the system
Cyberpunk 2077 – The shock of the system
2021-01-02
Zardos
This is no joke or exaggeration by the author: there was a vote in The Gamers – Hungarian Gamer Community, and the results showed that Cyberpunk 2077 is both the game of the year and the biggest disappointment of the year. This characterizes the game itself, which is fun at the same time, but we have also shed many tears because of the incessant amount of bugs, gels, lame AI and other mistakes. So it was a real shock to the system in every way, let’s hope CD Projekt corrects it to just be a shock in the right direction….
Set – 8.2
Graph / Music / Sound (PC, new generation) – 9.2
History – 9.4
No error – 4.5
Environment – 9.5
8.2
FINE
This is no joke or exaggeration by the author: there was a vote in The Gamers – Hungarian Gamer Community, and the results showed that Cyberpunk 2077 is both the game of the year and the biggest disappointment of the year. This characterizes the game itself, which is fun at the same time, but we have also shed many tears because of the incessant amount of bugs, gels, lame AI and other mistakes. So it was a real shock to the system in every way, let’s hope CD Projekt corrects it to just be a shock in the right direction….
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