its the second best rpg of its decade, it has a good long term goal, side quests and your choices can have knock on effects on the rest of the game's campaign. stats are hard numbers that let you do a certain action if you have the required points otherwise you are barred from even trying which i like since random chance of success or failuire based on rng is verry stupid in an rpg, it has good enough writing that you can easily get immersed in the role playing aspects of the rpg genre, it doesnt suffer from the usual "play a second time to trully get immersed" problem the first area of the game especially helps with this as there is verry little abiguity in the morality and this alows you to decide whether youre kind, passive-aggresive, neutral, etc. and further faction and groups are introduced giving you some hard choices to make, this is good as a simple question allows the player to be immersed enough to not be scared away, shooting sucks and so does the stealth, but it does the rpg thing so well its worth it, DO NOT GET IT IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SHOOTER.