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I like being able to create stories and draw on the screenshots

Going into this game, I didn't have much expectations apart from how I liked the art style.
Now, after finishing this.... extraordinary experience, I have some words.

1.) The story has been integrated into the game extremely well and is perhaps the best story I've personally experienced in a long while. The characters are well written and have their own goals to the point of them feeling like real people just doing what they can to survive.

2.) The gameplay is both hard as nails, and exhilarating. The fact that you *must* do a backflip to reload is such a wonderful (And hate inducing) game mechanic that suits each beautifully crafted level perfectly.

3.) Finally, every, single, location in this experience is both stunningly beautiful, and wonderfully designed. I actively did not fast travel this entire game because of how much fun I had driving around.

Is it frustrating? %100. Is it fun? Not all the time!

Do I think it's one of the greatest in it's genre?

....%100.

Cyberpunk 2077 is flawed experience. It started out really rough for them, the backlash from their broken product.

Yet they pushed through that. Being attacked, from all sides,
they pushed through to fix it.

It still has a bug or two, but through my 99 hours of playing it, I didn't have anything of note. It was a complete experience that delivered an amazing ride from start to finish.

The games good, as I think back on it fondly.
But more than that,
I respect them.
And whats more of a recommend them than that?

Honestly probably the best HL2 mod I've ever played. It grips you and doesn't let go.

Ok, so I'm a Halo fan. I've been one literally my whole life when I played Combat Evolved when I was 5 in 2003. So when I say I really like the gameplay of this, I really, truly mean it. But I cannot, under any circumstance, recommend this game. The level progression is absolutely atrocious based on challenges instead of matches. It takes forever to get anything and the game is *extremely* micro-transaction heavy. Imagine Fortnight, but worse. In order to get things, you pretty much have to buy the battle pass. Its terrible. I'm sorry, but this was just one step forward, two steps back into a greedy hell that I will not be supporting. Will I play the game? Probably. Can I recommend it? Absolutely not.

Edit: Having played the game for 52 hours I can safely say I still don't recommend it. Hit registration is awful, customisation is extremely limited (you can't even change your colours without paying money, for crying out loud), skill based matchmaking in casual modes (Making it so you pretty much always get into sweat matches against pro players when your teammates go 0/20), a disappointing campaign that's half baked and feels lifeless and like there was a game before it (that doesn't exist). The main enemy was handled poorly narratively, with characters introduced, do nothing, then die. All around, I'm disappointed with it and it reeks of corporate mishandling or them just not knowing how to make a good game. Honestly? I hate it.

It's pretty alright.

I liked it so much I 100% completed it. That doesn't happen very often. It's basically 90% character dialogue, though, so if that isn't your thing I wouldn't buy it. It's got a rad as hell game within a game though, called Demontower. So maybe buy it for that.