WordsmithsAnvil
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As many of you have probably noticed with my other reviews, I don't tend to stick with the latest and greatest games that have released. I don't get paid to critique, so my thoughts and scribbles are purely my own and I usually start jotting them down after finishing a game I got on a PSN sale or for "free" via PS Plus Extra. As I don't have an XBox or GamePass... I had to pay full price for The Outer Worlds 2 and happily did so because I love Obsidian and the first one is one of my favorite games in the last decade.
The Outer Worlds 2 puts us in the shoes of an Earth Directorate agent right off the bat. We have a mission to carry out in the colonized system of Arcadia, and that entails working with fellow Directorate hero Augustine De Vries. Within the first couple minutes of the briefing, one can tell that something is off with De Vries. She appears somewhat reluctant, yet resolute, in what is about to happen. During the mission she betrays you and the rest of your team, leaving them all dead or dying while you careen through space in a cryogenic pod for an indefinite amount of time. Luckily for Arcadia, that indefinite amount of time actually amounts to ten years. Picked up by Niles, the rookie agent from that opening mission, we discover that Arcadia has gone to hell in the interim. We have to find De Vries to bring her to justice, and there are rifts opening up all over the system threatening the collapse of the entire universe. Meanwhile, the original ultra-fascist caretakers of the system called the Protectorate have been in a constant shootout with the newly invading force of Auntie's Choice and the religious faction Order of the Ascendant.
It's a lot to take in.
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The Outer Worlds 2 puts us in the shoes of an Earth Directorate agent right off the bat. We have a mission to carry out in the colonized system of Arcadia, and that entails working with fellow Directorate hero Augustine De Vries. Within the first couple minutes of the briefing, one can tell that something is off with De Vries. She appears somewhat reluctant, yet resolute, in what is about to happen. During the mission she betrays you and the rest of your team, leaving them all dead or dying while you careen through space in a cryogenic pod for an indefinite amount of time. Luckily for Arcadia, that indefinite amount of time actually amounts to ten years. Picked up by Niles, the rookie agent from that opening mission, we discover that Arcadia has gone to hell in the interim. We have to find De Vries to bring her to justice, and there are rifts opening up all over the system threatening the collapse of the entire universe. Meanwhile, the original ultra-fascist caretakers of the system called the Protectorate have been in a constant shootout with the newly invading force of Auntie's Choice and the religious faction Order of the Ascendant.
It's a lot to take in.
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There are few examples of games in recent years that have had a more contentious start than Cyberpunk 2077. When it originally released, CP dropped with a slew of issues ranging from empty streets to recurrences of broken loading. Even PSN pulled the title from its online selling due to the issues that ran so rampant across nearly every player's experience. As time went on, patches and fixes helped to bring it to playability for Next Gen consoles and PC while still rendering it next to useless for the Playstation 4 and XBox One generations. I was one of those people who had been so looking forward to the amazingness CD Projekt promised with Cyberpunk, especially after being so wowed by The Witcher 3, only to have my heart broken when I tried to get into the game on my PS4. It just wasn't happening, and so I put my hopes for a true Blade Runner-esque game to the wayside for a bit. Now in 2025, one of my close friends highly recommended CP with such fervor that I had to throw it on and see how right or wrong he was.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
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There are few examples of games in recent years that have had a more contentious start than Cyberpunk 2077. When it originally released, CP dropped with a slew of issues ranging from empty streets to recurrences of broken loading. Even PSN pulled the title from its online selling due to the issues that ran so rampant across nearly every player's experience. As time went on, patches and fixes helped to bring it to playability for Next Gen consoles and PC while still rendering it next to useless for the Playstation 4 and XBox One generations. I was one of those people who had been so looking forward to the amazingness CD Projekt promised with Cyberpunk, especially after being so wowed by The Witcher 3, only to have my heart broken when I tried to get into the game on my PS4. It just wasn't happening, and so I put my hopes for a true Blade Runner-esque game to the wayside for a bit. Now in 2025, one of my close friends highly recommended CP with such fervor that I had to throw it on and see how right or wrong he was.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
For the rest of this review and others, visit WordsmithsAnvil . Com.