Shacknews Top 10 Games of the Year 2020

#8 Game of the Year 2020 - Cyberpunk 2077

For all of its flaws, Cyberpunk 2077 is still quite a video game. It's a vast explorable future playground of gangs, crooked cops, corporate interests, and every kind of mercenary just looking to scrape by in the urban jungle. Whether you work for the gangs, gun with the corpos, do the dirty work of the police, or sample other forbidden pursuits of Night City, you do have an undeniable freedom to pursue your leisurely path through it all, and a decent enough system of RPG mechanics, action shooter and melee combat, and dialogue guide you down the path you want to partake in. Much like previous CD Projekt RED games, going right from A to B is doing this game a disservice. There's so much to explore around every corner and alleyway of this city. Sometimes it's an opportunity in wait. Sometimes it's a bullet with your name on it.

Certainly, Cyberpunk 2077 didn't come out in the best state for all platforms and there are definite problematic points of content in the game's narrative itself, but it's hard to argue against the fact that CDPR put out a game worthy of conversations throughout several years. Interestingly enough, it will likely continue to be the center of certain conversations in gaming well into 2021, for better or for worse.

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