Gorgeous open world. The RPG element are great. Unfortunately, the main story was dry : too much talking and going point A to point B.

The graphics and world are breathtaking. It's huge, provides a lot of collectibles and story, however the direction is awful. Almost every part of the main mission, you have to stop and go online to figure out what do to because the game gives you absolutely no direction. For some, that's ideal, but when my settings are specifically set to give extra direction and I still get little to none, it's frustrating. And I'm not talking one or two missions, I mean almost every single one. It gets exhausting to play. To top that off, I'm more of an immersive story player, so I keep my combat settings at the max low it can get. Low enemy damage, high output damage. Despite this, the fights are almost impossible. They will overload you with way too many oncoming enemies while having little to no cover. My instant health bars are max, my health is high and I go into every mission a few levels above where I need to be. Despite this, they eat at your health and render it virtually impossible to fight and not get killed without running half the time. They absolutely swarm and destroy you, and that's on the lowest setting. I've found myself stuck several times at a point in the game simply because the combat was impossible to surpass, which took away from the story and just left me frustrated and angry. Expect to spend hours on each mission simply trying to enjoy the story. If I wanted a hard gameplay, I would've booted up Dark Souls. For a game that prides itself on immersive gameplay and storytelling, it's failing miserably. For how expensive **** it is, the combat is overpowered and repetitive.

The game was great. The 3rd person update has pushed it into excellence. 1st Person for combat, 3rd person for exploring. Too good.