This. Some of y 'all wanted GTA 2077 as opposed to an action RPG, cyberpunk, narrative-driven adventure game. The actual breadth of ability trees and the extent that you can apply them to this world is
, and yet you don't feel like you're breaking the game because your opponents - and NPCS - have access to the exact same tech that you do. Once you invest your time (which is what you expect to do in any RPG game ever made) the gameplay opens up to the point where you damn near can play like a superhero on some Crackdown type shyt if you wanted to. This is waaay beyond GTA's scope gameplay wise, it's more like choose your own playstyle in a ridiculously detailed open world that gives you a ton of side missions to experiment with different approaches & mechanics. The gunplay in this game is worlds better than GTA and the hacking is worlds better than Watch Dogs.
I understand folks being disappointed if they're playing this on consoles (I'm playing on PC w/ RTX 2080 & i9 9900k) but in terms of the amount of fun I've had already (I'm still in the middle of the 2nd act, have spent a lot of time on side content) this game is easily 9/10. Honestly I haven't ran into too many bugs either, I had one gig side-quest where a hostage I had to collect glitched, and one time when a character endlessly repeated their canned "waiting for a response" dialogue after the conversation had already ended. Aside from that, this has been everything I wanted out of an action RPG and more
This game is ambitious, fun af, incredible graphics and the story delivers on drama & worldbuilding, this is Deus Ex on crack.