Recent reviews by squareshield

Great soundtrack
Good visuals (for the time). During the game you travel through different "zones" (e.g. rural areas, villages, urban areas) which are all well designed and large enough to feel real and immersive
Voice acting is good enough
The story is good with some fun character moments
Overall, all these aspects combine to create a world which is fun and interesting to explore and play in

The combat isn't so great and takes a bit of getting used to. The biggest issue with this game is that the difficulty spikes at the end with multiple very hard boss fights, some of which directly follow each other. What makes things worse is that the combat system does not allow for much skill expression meaning if you are too weak there aren't many ways to outplay the bosses (except for running around and using igni which does not work for everything!). Another problem is that you cannot change difficulty during a playthrough for some reason. I would recommend playing on easy as you won't be missing out on anything.

Overall, I would recommend this game to those who love the other Witcher games or love the books. I would recommend playing the Witcher 2 or 3 first if you haven't as this one is quite clunky. Technically the story of each does carry over to the next one but the stories of each Witcher game are fairly separate

This is one of those games which is very good and does not waste your time

Great visuals and atmosphere. Night City has many areas which are a joy to walk/drive around and interiors of the buildings you visit are also great
Decent soundtrack
Very good voice acting and cutscenes - Keanu Reeves' character is great
Quests are generally good but sometimes felt like you didn't have many choices making the game feel less like an RPG
Combat is good with many different upgrades, weapons, skills and playstyles which are all viable
There are decent love interests, however there is only one per gender/sexuality combo (i.e. a straight man, straight woman, gay man and gay woman). This again means that it feels like there is less or no choice depending on the kind of character you are playing as.

Something that I did not see mentioned before I played this game was that the story is shorter than the WItcher 3. However it is still worth playing and I really liked the ending.

This game has one DLC which is just as good as the main game if not better. Definitely recommended if you like the base game.

The biggest negative point about this game would probably be the lack of roleplaying elements. It is visually impressive and everything is consistently presented but ultimately there are not many choices that you get to make during the game. Furthermore, this is not an RPG like Skyrim - the experience feels very controlled and curated through quests and cutscenes. This means that you can't really get immersed and feel like you are actually living in the world. One example is that at the start of the game, you have an apartment with a computer. If you read your email on the computer, you will see that you have an email from the landlord complaining about missed rent. But this is just window dressing - there is no way to pay the landlord nor are there any future repercussions. I don't think CDPR intended to make a game more like Skyrim (as the Witcher 3 is similar in some aspects). However, as I look at the world they created I can't help but feel like there was a missed opportunity to create something more.

Gameplay is very good - you get steadily stronger throughout the game and end up fighting hordes of hundreds of zombies which is as cool as it sounds, plus the game is well optimised so the larger hordes do not make the game laggy. Great selection of tools to deal with zombies and guns are satisfying. Riding the motorbike is fun too
Voice acting is great especially for Deacon (main character you play as)
Visuals are pretty good
Story is okay
Soundtrack is underrated

Overall, this is a good zombie game with top tier zombie horde gameplay. The biggest downside would probably be the story which is structured a bit badly at times but overall is good enough with an interesting ending if you 100% something

its fun to play with friends
the difficulty ramps up in map 2 which i think is too difficult making it a bit less fun

I went into this game with an open mind being willing to like it. But unfortunately it is everything I feared it would be given what it looked like as another Ubisoft open world game.

It does not excel at anything. Lame music, characters, story, dialogue, gameplay. Visuals are technically good but felt generic. The gameplay is still formulaic and easy. There is nothing here that makes the game worth playing. There are no RP elements, no story that I want to see more of, no characters I want to follow, no gameplay that I want to keep playing.

Play Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor instead.

If you liked Jedi: Fallen Order then you will definitely like this game even more
It improves on the combat, dialogue, story and characters
It's also a bit longer but doesn't outstay its welcome

Personally, I mostly played Jedi: Fallen Order for the combat and didn't really like the characters (even Cal). But the dialogue and story in this game is written by a different (and imo better) writer which made the characters a lot more likeable

The main negative is that there isn't as much variety in planets you can visit - but I think that the rest more than makes up for this
Another point to note would be that this game is not fully optimised. However, I was able to run it on a computer from 2018 on regular/low graphics and it still looked great

greatest game of all time

great soundtrack
great visuals
great open world
great quest design
great amount of content
great expansion packs
good story overall with choices that affect ending and fate of characters
good enough combat

if you liked season 1 then you will like this as well

Gordon is the man

Decent story but not enough choices unfortunately
but in my opinion still worth playing if you like telltale or batman, plus the second season is also good