Geoff Lee

I’m thinking this is like Marmite, you’ll either love it or hate it. If you like the game it’s brilliant fun, probably destined to become a cult classic in the same way Sucker Punch did.

It's a hot mess. I love it but it can be a horrible, bug ridden, experience at times...and that's the PC version. Night city is fantastic, the quests and storyline are great, but it's clearly about a year away from completion. It's no GTA5. There is something off and surreal that breaks immersion. You don't have to be that high a level to finish the main story, and with it largely pushing you to do just that, large parts of the game remain unexplored even when you finish the main quest line. Thankfully you can return and carry on, which is absolutely worth doing as some of the side quests are main story quality. It plays well even if you don't go down a huge crafting/upgrade path, which does make it more a shooter than a true RPG. Things can get very buggy in parts, which can range from comical to annoying to game breaking. It feels like it isn't really finished, there are large areas of the game that are walled off or out of bounds. Like they didn't have time to finish those bits. It feels like some parts have been cut to try and shoe horn it onto previous gen consoles. Some parts lack polish, others are fantastic. I really want to love it, and part of me does; I enjoyed over 100hrs inside it. But it's not really the game it could and should have been, esp after looking at the early trailers. Compare it to GTA and you'll see what I mean. The detail just isn't there. The subtle things, the subgames, the soundtrack, the map, the variety of things to do, the sense of it feeling like a real city. Too many parts are walled off to you, too many sections are locked behind identical doors. It feels a bit superficial, comic book almost. Largely I'm left feeling, "This could be the best game ever but they messed it up". It's got moments of greatness, but too many issues right now. They bottled it and released it far too soon. The fixes are ongoing but too little too late. The damage is done.

This is really pretty awful on the PS4. Badly glitching graphics almost all the time, the frame rate is slow and laggy, the game feels unresponsive and clunky. They need to go back and fix this to make it playable because right now it feels unfinished and unplayable.

As much as I love the Matrix trilogy, this is a confusing addition. I’ve no idea what the plot is doing, the set pieces have nothing new to offer and the music is frankly poor. You’ve seen it all before. The best parts are the self referential nods and winks, to the previous films. But beyond obvious homage to the original films, I’m not sure what this adds for a new generation.

Imagine the Legend of King Arthur told from the perspective of somebody who has no knowledge of this beyond being given a list of characters and a brief synopsis of who they are. Then written to appeal to fans of Twilight and you are are the right ball park. It's ridiculous but it rattles along at a fair old pace and is quite watchable.

I have been playing FS for 20 years. I really want to love it but it’s a hot mess. No manual in the DL version (really?! No help at all Microsoft?!). It’s changed a lot so you really need a manual. Some tutorials for the jets too. The checklists disappear. The tower commands are a joke, gimme a vector or something, because without charts I have no idea on the approach you just gave me. Then the ILS approaches are all over the place, try 23R into Manchester. What a mess! The AI control, nope. It makes a right mess. Over speed, ignores the tower, tries landing at 287kts at FL10. The taxiway instructions are a mess, ground vehicles all over the place driving up taxiways, crazy routes to gates or runways. And I just crashed apparently on a completely clear taxiway into some invisible object. And missing from the game completely is the replay mode. That was one of the best bits! Being able to watch that perfect landing or see where you messed up was great. It’s another game that’s just not finished on release. I hope they fix the mess it is at present, graphically it’s awesome, real world maps - absolutely yes. Don’t these people Beta test any more?

Fabulous darlings! Simply fabulous.