It’s been two days since the official release of Cyberpunk 2077 — the most expected game of the year, or maybe even decade. As many of you have heard the release date was postponed several times. Initially announced in 2012 and shown during E3 in 2019, developers planned to release the game this year, on April 16. The developer of the project is CD Projekt Red — a famous Polish game design company, which is also known for their beloved Witcher series and particularly for the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Cyberpunk 2077 caused quite a commotion on the Internet and social media, many people not interested in gaming started to follow the news and couldn’t really understand what was going on.
The stats are really satisfying. The approximate number of preorders is 8 million, which is unbelievable 41% of this number is PS/Xbox version. 59% is PC version making up more than 4.7 million preorders, which is the absolute record of all times. Steam made up more than 50 million dollars just in the first two weeks since the start of preorders.
Another thing to mention is the performance of Cyberpunk 2077. The game is available for PC, Playstation, and XBOX. Unfortunately, to play this game on PC you need an extremely powerful GPU and CPU. Users with RTX 3090 (the most powerful GPU so far) complained about low frame rate in some cut scenes and locations. Gamers with the brand new PS5 and XBOX Series X will also be disappointed because the patch for the next generation of consoles will be available only in 2021. That means that by now PS5 has the same graphics as PS4 Pro and therefore there is no sense in having PS5 in this particular case.
Fortunately, I had a chance to play Cyberpunk 2077. I have a subscription to Geforce Now, which is Nvidia’s own cloud gaming service. And with a premium account, I had to wait more than two hours in a queue. Even Steam’s servers didn’t survive on Thursday, users reported about unavailability to connect to Steam.
I’ve played about 7 hours in total and completed 10% of the game so far. I’m ready to share my experience. Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City, a city obsessed with power, glamour, and body modification. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant that is the key to immortality, a killer which destiny changes after one mission. Keanu Reeves showed in the E3 trailed appears in the game as one of the main characters. This game has a gigantic and scrupulous open world, a world with many charismatic characters with their own stories and history, a world with a captivating grinding system, and an impressive variety of weapons. The genre of Cyberpunk 2077 has a very interesting system resembling Detroit: Become Human when throughout the game you are given choices that influence the story and thereby the ending. But the main feature of this game is the very mature and raw plot. It’s definitely not a family game. CD Projekt Red, unlike modern gaming trends, made the game full of explicit content. And this brave step deserves respect. Cyberpunk 2077 is not a game for a general audience. As for disadvantages, I found only two. I didn’t like the car physics, it’s really awful like in the Watch Dogs series and the interface. It’s really complicated and not intuitive.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a really worth waiting and iconic game, I’m sure CD Projekt Red made themselves remarkable. The plot, the characters the open world is amazing. Despite the disadvantages, I’ve found and minor bugs which I’m sure are going to be fixed, this is the game you have to play. It’s silly to avoid such a masterpiece and if you hesitate spare no expenses on Cyberpunk 2077.
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I played the game on the PC, even though I have a pretty good computer, but still, I can play the game on the ultra settings. I think the game will be a good benchmark for a long time. The game really has a sufficient number of bugs, but it is still playable. I enjoy playing.
Sorry, can’t
Well, it seems like your case is typical, it feels like Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be benchmark for even more years…
Pc, PS4 and Xbox One experience severe trouble with optimalization and bugs. It kinda feels like they robbed last-gen consoles owners
Yes, this terrible issue does really exist. And I wrote this review BEFORE the massive wave of complaints. I also play Cyberpunk 2077 via GeForce Now, so everything works perfectly for me. Btw, I have a friend with a PS4 Slim who bought a digital version in psn for more than 60 euros. It does seem extremely unfair, like a robbery. I was confused when he showed me and they should not have released a past-gen version.
I have just downloaded the game while reading your article. I have heard the game is full of bugs, so I hope they won’t be much of an issue for the player. The game has been delayed for several times and it’s very unfortunate to see such experiences with bugs.
It depends on your platform. The PC version has fewer bugs as far as I’ve experienced but the past-gen version is really terrible. It’s unacceptable to ask for more than 60 euros for graphics equal to CSGO (sometimes even 1.6 tbh lol).
Kind of funny how many times they delayed the release… I was waiting for this game to come out, however, they begin it a long time ago in 2012 which is a long process and still there are a lot of bugs :/ really sad! I must say they were a little bit unprepared and totally not ready
It seems like postponing a release is becoming trendy. Mass and social media talk more about a game and get more people interested. Everything to make the it viral.
Such potential, in my opinion wasted. Game too hyped, studio not experienced enough for such project, and now they want to delete game for older console such as Ps4 because it’s almost impossible to play and enjoy the game.