James Gillespie

Story is decent, captures the mood really well and visually its brilliantly made (althought the dialog does drag on a bit). However, there is a major, glaring flaw that's too hard to ignore. The combat system is completely rudimentary. It doesn't require much skill at all, and as the game progresses, instead of forcing you to think more, in order to defeat enemies, they just become damage sponges. I assume this is intended to make the game appear difficult, but it doesn't. God of War made the same mistake on the hardest setting and in actuality, it just means that it takes longer to do anything and the repetition begins to feel tedious pretty quickly. Spent most of my time button bashing square and got on completely fine. Several times i didn't even have to look at the screen to beat enemies, which would be impossible in a game with challenging combat. A decent find considering I'd heard nothing about it but the emphasis on making the game flashy, over technical, difficult combat really does take it down several stars for me unfortunately.

This game deserves the first minus 5 star rating. 7 years in the making? They should be ashamed of themselves. If you want a wee bit of glitchy action followed by 20 minutes of boring dialogue that culminates in you having to walk to someone else for yet more boring dialogue, this game's for you. If you want game ruining glitches in nearly every mission, this game's for you. If you want pulled into one of the most vacuous story lines in gaming history, this game is for you (imagine Death Stranding levels of cut scenes but with a script and plot written by agitated 12 year olds). If you want a series of boring time trials (that obviously glitch) this game's for you.. Pretty much its a game for people who hate gaming. Such a shame cos the first one was excellent. Edit: Deleted and reinstalled the game, made no difference. Whoever says the movement during parkour is smooth can't have played the first one, or is playing on a different system with less issues (I'm on ps5). This makes Cyberpunk look like Dark Souls 3