{"id":145055,"date":"2020-12-14T22:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/?guid=dd93fe9dce2edc59b2da761d55883a74"},"modified":"2020-12-14T22:44:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:44:58","slug":"review-cyberpunk-2077-is-nothing-but-a-pretty-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/review-cyberpunk-2077-is-nothing-but-a-pretty-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Cyberpunk 2077 is nothing but a pretty face"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It might be an ambitious game but the final product can’t live up.<\/p>\n

At the start of Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>, your character wants nothing more than to get to Night City. Through marketing materials, we’ve been taught that it’s a bright behemoth, sprawling and unobtainable thanks to controlling corporations and general dystopian rot. However, when my V, a nomad, entered Night City chased by border patrol, it was tough to take in. You’re stuck in a car, shooting at officers, and all the while driving through industrial parks and barren wasteland underneath billboards. When you finally get to experience Night City \u2014 like, really experience it \u2014 it’s through montage. You finally cut to six months later, and that’s where the game really begins.<\/p>\n

This introduction changes depending on which backstory you choose for V, but it still represents the core issue with Cyberpunk 2077: it doesn’t know what it wants to be. There’s a gigantic open-world to explore in Night City, with a variety of NPCs, storefronts, and culture clashing, but you don’t get to enjoy it for the first hour. It’s a game about cyberpunk and all that entails \u2014 neon, transhumanism, capitalistic excess, body modification, hacking \u2014 but also isn’t about any of it. A lot of it works as set dressing for an ambitious game that never seems to get to where it wants to be without shortcuts.<\/p>\n

Before we delve in, we want to note that this has been a strange game to review. Reports over the past few months have illuminated what working conditions have been like at developer CD Projekt Red, and it’s been racked with mandatory crunch and long hours<\/a>. This is contradictory to promises that the company wouldn’t be crunching employees, but delays partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic only sought to make the situation worse. It’s also been plagued with some marketing controversies, including one over the depiction of a trans model in-game. All of this, along with the bugs and performance issues<\/a> players have reported at launch across platforms, it’s tough to judge the game on its own merits.<\/p>\n

That being said, this is arguably the largest game to release in 2020. It was announced in 2012 but only started to feel real in 2018. It’s been a long time coming from a studio that struck gold with The Witcher 3. The anticipation is real, and a game of this size will only continue to have an impact on video game culture for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

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