Yep, I successfully exercised restraint on this one. Reddit is full of tales of error messages on Xbox One saying 'your system has run out of video RAM!' Will hopefully pick this up on Game pass when I get an Xbox series s next year when, you know, they'll be actual exclusive titles out by then.

There was a big patch for this on the SeX yesterday. Nearly 6gig. Don't know what it does, but some of you waiting for it to be patched may like to investigate further.

Picked this back up tonight and it’s working for me at the moment. Still looks and sounds ridiculously good.

I’ve not run into any technical issues yet. Possibly due to the patch, or maybe I’ve just been lucky.

well i tried this, got through the intro section...spoke to the boss in the bar to get the first proper mission...and couldn't find how to get there!
i assume i'm just missing something obvious, but following the 'trail' thing led me a locked guarded doorway, so i started exploring all over the map fighting thugs until i eventually died.
it is impressive on a graphical level with all the detail and stuff going on, but so for the gameplay itself is very middle of the road and the writing is arse.

pretty sure i had the right mission selected, but i'm also leaning towards your latter point.

I'm weirdly reminded of that Bruce Willis game the THPS team did, Apocalypse. Imagining this but with a Cage as the protagonist, would be cool/hilarious.

Late to the party on this. Sounds like it was a good idea to wait for the patch. This looks lovely. Nice density to the world with loads of intricate little details and the lighting is superb. Just played the prologue and have to say it’s a fun little shooter so far. Seem to be quite a few systems and things to improve your character. Looking forward to playing more.

For me it's more that it feels unbalanced. So much work seems to have gone into making it look like a really detailed world, but it just doesn't really matter in the end when the mission design and action seems so underdeveloped in comparison. It's one thing creating a game world like this, another justifying its existence. If more of the care and attention applied to the graphics had been spread across to other areas, it surely would've been better overall.

DrewMerson wrote:

I finally got around to reading the Eurogamer review. It criticises the game for being what it is, a shooter, and not doing more with its beautifully detailed setting. Given the size of the team, and the game they were making, the only way to solve this problem would be to make the world less detailed, less interesting looking, in order to temper his expectations. It’s just such a weird angle to take.

Sounds like a strange angle to take. Ive not read a Eurogamer review in years now. I just see videos pop up from them about doing Master chief make up and the like so I don't bother with the site. Last EG vid I tried was some fool playing Journey doing asmr whispering. I very nearly hurled my laptop out the window

Getting that repetitive feeling already and not that far in. The gunplay is fun. Wish there was a run button though. Lot of wandering around. Whenever I play this I keep thinking this would be a great engine for an OG Fallout remake. These graphics but with turn based combat.

There's another big patch for this today.

Finished this off last night and ended up really enjoying it.

There are plenty of criticisms that can be fairly levelled at it, from poor dialogue to a slightly impenetrable plot to a poorly thought through overall layout combined with a weak fast travel system which leaves you spending huge amounts of time running between elevators, to a host of minor bugs which occasionally prevented me from progressing in one mission until I went off and did some other bits and came back, to a fairly simple combat system, but despite all of that, I still had a lot of fun.

A not-insignificant part of that fun came from the sheer quality of the world-building, the amount of depth and detail that was on display at pretty much all times meant that I felt like I was always spotting new things even when I was running down the same stretch of road for the twentieth time. This, combined with the music and audio design left me completely immersed in this version of the Bladerunner world and keen to see what it would throw my way next.

I also enjoyed the combat. There wasn’t a great deal to it, but it was suitably chunky and responsive and there are some fun weapons available later on in the game. The Overwhelmer, Dealbreaker and Dismemberer were particular highlights.

Overall, this was probably an [8] to me, although two of those points are being given for world that they created alone.

I’ll buy this to own at some point.

Won’t be the first Game Pass game I’ve bought and it won’t be the last. Some games are worth buying to own.

This is now a tenner on Xbox Store. Tempted.

Is it still in GP too?