It's fair to say that Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the biggest games of 2020. If not the biggest game of 2020, and one of the most anticipated games of the entire generation. We've been waiting on CD Projekt Red's open world RPG for what feels like an eternity, but unfortunately, just days before its release, we don't have a Push Square review for you to read.
Simply put, we haven't received review code for Cyberpunk 2077. We don't really know why, either. As far as we're aware, a number of other websites are in a similar position. It's a real shame, but there's not much we can do about it.
As we've explained before, we're not entitled to a review code of any game — no website or content creator is. We maintain professional relationships with a range of publishers and video game companies, but that's as far as it goes. They don't owe us anything, and likewise, we can't always guarantee coverage of their games here on Push Square.
The bottom line, though, is that we had big plans for Cyberpunk 2077, and the fact that we're yet to receive review code means that we've had to adjust those plans significantly. Ideally, we wanted to bring you an in-depth and accurate review of Cyberpunk 2077 before the game's launch on the 10th December, but that's no longer possible.
With that in mind, we ask for your patience as we look to publish a review for Cyberpunk 2077 in the relatively near future. As CD Projekt Red once said, it's coming when it's ready.
Thanks for reading Push Square!
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Hey everyone, just to add to this, we plan on playing Cyberpunk 2077 on both PS5 (backwards compatibility) and PS4 in order to test performance. That's one of the reasons we would have loved to get the game early, but here we are.
Let me know if anyone has any questions about how we do our reviews and all that kind of stuff. I'll try to answer what I can.
Love CDR and hyped for the game but that seems like poor planning to wait this close to release to provide reviewers access to such a massive game 😬
@ShogunRok Don't forget the bug spray lol. Its rumoured that story is between 11hrs to 16 hrs some clarification on this would be appreciated. All joking aside, as the hype for this game has is extraordinary and can never be met.
@TheIdleCritic Yes, with open world games like this our policy is always to try and see as much of it as we possibly can before writing the review. That includes doing as many side quests as we feel are necessary, otherwise reviewing it doesn't really make sense.
It's like reviewing Skyrim but only doing the main quest — you'd end up with a horribly skewed perspective!
@Max2574 Yeah we'll definitely report on how long it takes to beat, etc.
@Brydontk lots of gameplay online shows why the reviews are so late. Also you know alot of reviewers are paid off or given gift packages to influence scores as we have seen already cough IGN. I always go to ACG for the most honest info and off course Push Square.
The overhype for this game is insane
After what i see from the leaks
Iam afraid to tell you this game is a huge let down.
I have pre ordered the ps4 version for my ps5.
Any idea when the upgrade is coming?
@ShogunRok Thankyou I have the collectors edition really worried after what I have seen. Hope you guys enjoy it.
@hypnotoad They said 2021 but no date given mate.
@Max2574 Fanx mate.
Never a good sign, though thankfully most of the early reviews are pretty high.
@Max2574 This is absolutely not true.
Looks great from what Ive seen.
@LiamCroft so when is it then Liam?
@LiamCroft What isn't true could you elaborate plz.
@Max2574 Review sites are not paid off by the developer. Influencers are a different story.
@LiamCroft Yh my tone was maybe a touch harsh. But reviewers are definitely influenced especially Youtubers. But yh sure there are many honest reviewers also just like you guys.
@Max2574 Reviews from YouTubers are a grey area, I agree on that.
@LiamCroft when is the update due then Liam?
Looks like the reviews were done with the PC version, which could be why you didn't get a code, being a PlayStation site.
@hypnotoad The PS5 upgrade? All we know is some time next year.
@LiamCroft Ta.
@Max2574 Liam is quite capable of articulating this point without me jumping in, but influencing and bribing are two very different things. Youtube is a strange entity when it comes to reviews from creators. I've gone down many rabbit holes of watching youtube "gamers" and in my opinion, not many of them can actually play a game to save their lives, so their reviews means nothing. And I'm sure the ones who can play are honest. A lot of them add #ad #sponsored etc. As for publications, don't buy in to conspiracy theories. It's naive to think that kind of practice happens. I'm sure that IGN get so much free crap that a lot of it remains unopened in the mail room.
Also... what makes you think PushSquare are honest, and aren't doing under the table deals?
No worries , guys. I always check out your reviews whenever they arrive.
@Max2574 ... The article says why the reviews are late, I don't need the gameplay videos... But anyway, I'm aware of that, you're completely missing my point. I'm saying that the team will have to scramble to play and enjoy the game and get a timely review out. The goal's always to get reviews out before release so people can read and make an informed decision before they buy. Kinda hard to do that if they don't have the game.
Anyhoo, can't wait til Thursday,
Meh - I'm getting it on day one anyway. I just want to spend 45h on character creation, don't really care about the rest of the game 😂
I'd much rather a late review that really gets down into the nuts and bolts of this game than one that's barely scraped the surface to meet the embargo. Got plenty of other games to play right now, I'll revisit Cyberpunk in 2021 when the PS5 version is here and people have had time to really get into it.
@ShogunRok When you complete a review how much of the game do you finish? Most of the side missions and extra stuff or is it mostly campaign with a little bit of everything?
@TheIdleCritic Haha fully trust Push square after reading many of there reviews over the years. I think on youtube especially its a mixed bag. For example if someone gives this a 10 with the amount of bugs and game breaking bugs wich after the reviews today are infact true then I know they are not being fully honest and not giving the player the true picture of the game. Days gone for example got murdered for many bugs and fps issues and rightly so. Maybe in future games should be reviewed and scored in categories like story, performance, graphics etc.
@Brydontk I know mate I was talking in general.
My hype for this game is so high that I've become immune to disappointment. Day one. Original PS4. I'm gonna love it.
@DualshockInfinit It depends on how early we get review code. If we get it a few weeks in advance (which is usually the absolute earliest), then we'll probably see and do just about everything that the game has to offer.
In my experience, Persona 5 Royal and Ghost of Tsushima were great examples of this earlier in the year. I completed both of those games 100% before the review had to be written.
Most of the time, though, we're not quite so lucky. The majority of review code that we get comes in maybe a week or a week and a half in advance. That's usually enough for most games, but sometimes we'll have to cut corners.
That said, with open world games and big RPGs, we try to do as much as we possibly can (while also finishing the main story).
@Max2574 I love Days Gone, first time playing it when I got it off the PS+ Collection, but I do remember when it first came out everyone was complaining about bugs.
Yes. I agree. Reminds me of the old days of GameTrailers. That's how they used to review.
CDPR did the smart thing and are not supplying media outlet codes, because they're a joke.
When I see V, I always think of Phantom Pain
V has come to...
The general consensus is that the game has launched in a buggy as hell state and the Day 1 patch won't address a lot of the bugs. Wisdom suggests to wait.
@Medic_Alert Exactly how I read it.
Plenty of other alarm bells of what they are and aren't allowed to use. Can only use curated footage till around the day before launch etc.
@Medic_Alert 100% happy to be wrong and eat my... suspicions
I was always going to wait for the proper next gen versions and bug fixes so personally not fussed but hoping for everyone else it's not a disaster on console.
On the subject of that the PC ray tracing is reported to be a step up from Control and the new definitive example of it. It will be interesting to see if the native PS5/XSX versions manage some of this and if so how much and at what cost as apparently PC makes good use of DLSS.
Getting it for my Xbox Series X, especially with the rumors of poor performance on PlayStation units and the fact that there’s no real way to upgrade the PS5’s internal storage. With the Xbox One X limited edition as well as most of the promotion being for the Xbox version, my guess is that’s the console the most effort went into. On top of all that, I got it for free as since I got the Series S and PS5 from GameStop, I got two $30 game coin(which actually gave me 60,000 points for PowerUp Rewards). So GameStop basically paid for my copy.
Like Push Square my site wasn't provided console code either. Every review was done on PC. I don't like all the red flags I've seen around this game. Reviewers weren't allowed to use their own captured footage and no console impressions are out there. I honestly don't trust any of those 10/10 scores I've seen based on the amount of bugs I've seen in leaked footage. Certain people are just marketing this for CD Projekt RED instead of critiquing it like they should be doing.
It's a bloated buggy mess with crap gameplay apparently, so no surprises there
I've read that it's a buggy mess atm, even with the day one patch...
Also, no console codes have been provided so I'm definitely going to wait for unbiased reviews before even considering the game.
Just hoping it's not a big letdown
@AndyWK right!!! Lol.
You beat the game when you click (YES CREATE CHARACTER)
It seems like every review is for PC. I am really curious how it performs on a base PS4, and maybe even more curious how a base Xbox One handles. I will be playing on PS5 myself, but it seems like it will be best to wait for a few patches.
Curious to read your guy's review when it's ready.
@TwinFami AC Valhalla also had MS paying the publisher to put Xbox logos in the trailers - which is all that is, it's not a sign of some close working partnership or anything - and it runs worse on Series X. If you look at the recent Digital Foundry articles, that seems to be the case more often than the orher way around.
The internal storage thing doesn't really matter since last gen games don't benefit that much from the super fast SSD so you might as well get an external SSD or HDD and put last gen games on there. I got a 2TB HDD for the PS5 for that very reason.
Both PS4 and XB1 versions, even running on the new consoles, absolutely pale in comparison to it running on a good PC, though.
I’ve been reading how buggy it is too. Obviously CDPR just couldn’t have another delay at any cost? I can only imagine how much work went into this game so hopefully it all works out whenever that may be. Not looking like release day though unfortunately.
@Medic_Alert exactly my view also. No coincidence that the PC reviews are the only ones out there. IMO that's a pretty ***** thing for CDPR to do as well - some innocents will take the reviews of that as 'oh it'll be the same on console' and go and pre-order before the truth comes out later in the week. And it's not as if the PC reviews are glowing anyway...a lot of them brush off the current state of the game as 'oh well few bugs but who cares, they'll sort it' when it appears to be borderline game breaking.
Sounds like they've been given a higher rating than the game deserves. Very carefully curated reviews on display here.
I love the fact that so many know it's a buggy mess when it's not even out yet !
@MPaulson I think it's even worse than that. No one outside CDPR has even seen the game running on base PS4 and XB1 - the platforms a HUGE proportion of the audience will be playing on. Let that sink in. This is absolutely disgraceful and stinks of damage control. (As I said above, i'd LOVE to be wrong)
@LiamCroft "Review sites are not paid off by the developer. Influencers are a different story." Whilst I agree, most review sites who were supplied code, in the race for clicks aren't holding off of posting their reviews or calling out the unethical embargo restrictions like
In these cases I take my hat off to influencers like SkillUp who refuse to kowtow to CDPR's unethical embargo demands.
https://twitter.com/SkillUpYT/status/1335999301382639618
Because they're only giving our review codes for PC since the console versions are hot mess and they don't want to get that info out there, reviewers can't even use their own footage.
@themightyant couldn't agree more, and I look forward to honest, balanced reviews from the likes of SkillUp later in the week/next week. Maybe the game WILL be great in six months time - I don't see why that should be a pass for these sites to give it great reviews in its current state TODAY. sigh
@ShogunRok as a matter of interest, in very large games, do you guys at Push Square share the side quests so you can cover all of the game quicker or would one player try do the whole game?
Its seems the majority if not all of the reviews released for Cyberpunk was for PC only. So that's probably why they didnt give a review copy to a playstation centric website.
@MPaulson The bugs thing is a difficult line. Reviewers reviewing pre-day-1-patch code often have to take bugs into account to an extent. And games of this ilk get a little more leeway in general. But this sounds WAY over the commonly accepted line.
The most disgraceful things to me are no console code, the fact no one has even seen it running on base PS4 / XBOX1 and unethical embargo restrictions. It's outrageous. If this were EA/Ubisoft etc. it would be called out in droves.
Still looking forward to the game in due course, down the line.
What can you say? It's a tough world?
I don’t care if you review Cyberpunk 2077, because so many other outlets are already reviewing it. I’m always more interested in the smaller games getting reviews since they’re not often covered by other outlets.
@Emperor_Rusty We only usually get one review code if it's a single player game, so most of the time it's down to just one of us to cover a whole game.
But even for co-op games, it's just one of us that writes the review.
I love your honesty pushsquare. It’s not often we get honesty like that. We ain’t got the game code yet and we don’t when we’ll get it hence why we haven’t got the review.
I'm just gonna play it and judge it for myself lol
@ShogunRok Will we have a review for the OG PS4 unpatched version, for the OG PS4 version after 50 GB of patches, for the PS4 Pro version, for the PS4 version played via BC with the PS5 and for the PS5 version?
@andreoni79 Be nice. It's Christmas.
@shgamer It's not my fault if they will release the very same game in a dozen of different versions! 😂
My favorite comments: I know this game sucks because I watched some leaked footage on YouTube, from my phone.
So we're basically paying for a beta version of the game cause they couldn't hold off the wolves at the door anymore. It's a shame, I'll play it once for a laugh with all the bugs then put it away til it's actually ready.
Could it have something to do with Microsoft's marketing rights exclusivity? Did Pure Xbox get a code, I wonder?
I do question how a game with as many bugs as this seems to have can score 10/10. I would trust those reviews even less than others.
@Classic_console Speak for yourself please.
I watched another site's video review earlier that said "I'm jealous of the people that will first play this 6 months from now, when all the bugs and kinks are worked out" and that's exactly what I'm going to do. Curious to see what y'all think of the game as well, but with the apparent bugs I'm in no rush lol
Defenately waiting for reviews to drop for this one. Not that i dont have faith in CDPR but more in line with i have a ps4 pro. I want to know it can handle it without melting and there isnt too much content missing against the ps5 version ie civs roaming the streets etc. May just end up waiting for a ps5 and get it when its patched sometime next year.
@ShogunRok when it comes to choosing who reviews which game, how do you go about that? Do you pick someone, who was looking forward to said game? Or someone outside of the genre? Ie, a jrpg fan, reviewing a sports game, etc.
@TheIdleCritic Damn you. Invoking the Days Gone card. Haha.
Well this game will most likely be the most overrated game of 2020 and 2021, but it will be good nonetheless.
Also, really disappointed CD Projekt Red didn't provide a review code to the best games site on the planet, SMH
@PhhhCough We usually pick the people who want to review it. If one of us isn't a fan of RPGs, for example, there wouldn't be much point in having them review one. I think the most informative reviews come from people who have experience with the genre and some knowledge of what makes the good games in that genre good.
So funny how much drama this is creating. The game will release, it'll be good on PS5, slightly less so on PS4. There will be bugs, and they'll be ironed out fairly quick (see Valhalla). This is CDPR we are talking about, so my expectations are high until they prove me wrong.
I just started the preload for PS5 and it's a whopping 102GB (not sure if the day 1 patch is in there now).
@Medic_Alert
Some footage of the PS4 version got leaked by a guy who streamed the first 20 minutes. It looked fine to me, and that's without this day 0 patch
Let's be honest, this is a small site compared to IGN. So I would imagine that bigger sites are getting priority on review codes. I don't agree with those practices though.
@Link41x It's not about site size. It's like absolutely NO ONE has PS4 review code, IGN along with the rest have only PC review code and this a PS site. CDPR is obviously hiding something, It's a shame with all the restrictions.
@TheArt It’s kinda funny how CDPR are basically the baddies of their own game.
Take your times push square, I won’t play this game until I get my ps5 next year, so you have plenty of times to review it 😂
Having heard it's a bit of a buggy mess without the day one patch, I'm not surprised some console sites didn't get review code. I'm not in any rush to get this game as I've got a number of games in the backlog already.
I think its about time I started 'The Other Worlds' since all the bugs seem to be ironed out in that game now.
Then, in 6 months time, I'll pick up Cyberpunk 2077 for my Xbox One S, since Xbox seems to be the version getting the most promotion at the moment. Might be the best console version.
Might be on Gamepass by then too lol
Bottom line is they are hiding the console versions because it sucks - maybe the day one patch fixes it maybe it doesn't.
Just to re-emphasise all reviews at present are for PC only but are a joy to read the best ones on metacritic. Cannot wait for this game.
100th!! 😎
@NEStalgia Maybe the review code got sent to NL? 😉 (I checked PX, nope.)
If it's true only PC versions got sent out for review I'm surprised @ShogunRok didn't just say so. 🤷♂️
@Max2574 what is ACG lazy fingers?
@Classic_console I think this is very true words.
Fortunately CRPR won't be able to hide the base console versions for much longer!
Tick tock, *****.
@rjejr Oh gawd no, I don't need to wake up to a talking point with Damien stirring the pot on how likely CDPR is to port Cyberpunk to Switch with 15 paragraphs citing Witcher 3 and Outer Worlds as evidence for and against.
@NEStalgia More likely to get an article w/ damo thanking CDPR for not putting the game on Switch b/c it's too violent.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/09/soapbox_why_grand_theft_auto_v_isnt_for_me
@rjejr Soapbox: Why being beaten twice daily is beneficial (and you can too!)
Sounds like a Vox article.
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