Downloaded this last night on Game Pass PC, played the first handful of missions and came away feeling very mixed.
I love the look of the world. The layered environments, the dirty, smokey city streets, the claustrophobic corridors and the Ray-traced neon everywhere; I'm into it. The voice acting (when in English) is pretty good too.
The gameplay seems in a weird spot where it is more fleshed out than a twin stick shooter, but only sticks its toe into any sort of RPG mechanics. Like some other people have mentioned here, I'm ok with that. Definitely don't need another game filled with color coded loot.
My main complaints are:
- the shooting feels a bit squirrelly and the cover mechanic feels ineffective given how fast enemies chase after you. I feel like I'm running away and shooting behind me most of the time I'm in combat.
- in contrast with the world design, the character designs seem very bland and lack detail.
- the frame rate on this thing chugs CONSTANTLY. Granted, I have the settings up pretty high, but I'm running it at 1440 and I have a 3080 and an i9 processor and the frame rate takes a dive not only when something explodes (often), but also just randomly walking around the environments.
I like the game well enough to continue, but I hope something is done to fix the performance.