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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 454.1 hrs on record (389.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 17 Jan, 2021 @ 7:24pm
Updated: 26 Jan, 2024 @ 7:55am
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Cyberpunk 2077 has been massively overhauled with the release of Patch 2.0, and the story has been expanded with the Phantom Liberty expansion. As someone who has played since 1.0, I can safely say that Cyberpunk 2077 has never been better.

The story and side quests of Cyberpunk 2077 are top-tier, and it is great to experience it again with Patch 2.0. Characters are deep and seem so life-like due to the great acting/animation and voice acting. Story-lines are motivating for the most part. The world has to be one of the best ever created in gaming. Night City is monumental and full of detail, looks and sounds amazing, and is an awesome backdrop for the game.

The overhaul to perks, skills, armour, combat, police, and more, has revolutionised the way the game is played. There are so many skill trees to specialise in to enhance your build, and each build has a good level of depth. Cyberware and armour have been overhauled for the better, leading to limits on how much cyberware you can equip, and armour coming from cyberware itself, whereas clothes often do not offer any armour now. Combat has improved, especially due to the updates to cyberware, and feels a bit better than before, not to say that combat was all too bad before. Police finally work, and it is awesome to have Max-Tac swoop in when you have 5 stars.

2.0 has not fixed everything in terms of jank and glitches, although it occurs a lot less than before, and generally does not harm the gameplay experience in a massive way anymore when it does happen. The game performs much better than before in my experience with 2.0 (1080ti, 7700k, 16GB RAM, HDD), despite the update to minimum and recommended requirements. It is overall much more optimised.

Phantom Liberty is a great expansion, bringing V to Dogtown to save President Myers,with hopes of finding a cure to the relic, with help from Songbird. The story is well-told, the characters introduced such as Solomon Reed and Kurt Hansen are interesting, and the new endings offered by the expansion are nice to have in addition to the ones already in the base game. Dogtown, although relatively small, is crammed full of things to do and sights to see, while offering lots of awesome areas to explore in the story and gigs. The relic slot in the attributes menu is a nice addition, and the perks it offers are a great, especially theweak-zoneperk. Phantom Liberty offers new vehicles and weapons, which are all for the most part great additions to the game.

Cyberpunk 2077 still has a little jank, but for the most part it is really living up to the vision presented to us, and with the launch of Phantom Liberty, has very well exceeded that vision in many ways. I would love to see NG+ implemented, and maybe even pushing the level cap to 70 for NG+, but 60-70 only offers 1 attribute and perk point every two levels. It is definitely worth the time and money, it has really become one of the best games to be made in years.
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