This is the type of game to leave a void when you finish it. It consumes your attention whole and leaves you chasing a high in its wake. No other game hits quite like this one does. Granted, I have not played Baldurs Gate 3. Yet when accounting for my ignorance, nothing else even comes close.

Combat is addictive and satisfying. The 2.1 update has made it so you can craft a solid build. As the game develops you equip more and more cyberware. Its a snowball effect that ends with you feeling badass (but not invincible, a certain endgame bossfight ensures this.)

The writing is simply superb. I love how the story is less about saving the world and more about saving yourself. I love how characters are not simply quest receptacles. You can say or do the wrong thing, send the wrong text message to a lover, use a miscalculated compliment, and the game adjusts in real time.

I love how there are seven endings and yet all of them feel emotional. All of them you could fit with the backstory you devised for that particular character.


There is a lot of obvious cut content especially in the game's early sections. Also, the lifepath system is a joke and not what we were promised. Its still useful for context when making up ur characters backstory in ur head and making decisions, but the game is obviously geared towards a streetkid playthrough. I suspect entire main storylines were cut.

The bugs are here but they dont break the game.


Phantom liberty is fantastic. The choices here actually matter even more than some of the ones in the base game. The characters are so fully fleshed out that no mattter how it ends you will feel nagging guilt for betraying someone. This DLC will inspire more online debates than Fallout New Vegas does.

My only complaint is that the whole "Spy thriller" tone doesnt mesh perfectly with the rest of the game's tone. Also, the NUSA should not be as powerful as it is.