Extremely bugged.
Playing on the Xbox one x, in the first 30 minutes of gameplay the game has crashed to the Xbox home screen 5 times. There has been massive rendering failures that completely ruined the experience. i.e. you sit through an cut scene, Un-skippable, you then are forced to pull a weapon. Your weapon does not render, you can’t fight or shoot, and get this, you can’t change weapons. Then you are forced to die, load back in, watch the same cut scene, and it’s a 50/50 shot that your going to have the same problem, or the game might randomly quick save causing a crash to home screen.
Not to give too much away, but there is a portion of the game where you have a... “flash back” in this section you play for about 3-5 minutes, then a boss comes out, you don’t get to fight it, it switches to a cut scene, that same boss from before somehow stops you, with no explanation, then for the next 15 minutes you watch cut scenes followed by load screen. With the occasional prompt to crawl, thinking this is where you get to play again. That’s a lie. More cut scenes. Personally, I wanted to play a open world shooter set in the future, and all I got was a poorly written GTA meets Hitman first person shooter, that up to this point has made me more frustrated that it worth playing. Honestly, you’re going to have more fun playing GTA 5.
At least when the game crashes, you can make different choices in the dialogue to see if you actually effect the outcome of the game. From what I can tell so far, it changes to reactions of the NPC dialogue, and you get the same results.
I was very excited for this “AAA” game to come out, it so far I have been let down. Let down to the point that I’m almost mad at myself for believing the advertising.
Bummer.