Lack of character customization. In all the marketing we saw, style and body modification were shown to be a huge part of what this game would be about. What we got, however, was unremarkable (fallout 3 has more options). Aside from customizable genitals (which except for in the inventory menu, you will never see again after you've created your character) this character creator had no more depth than your average character customization in games, and in a lot of areas, it had less. Many of the NPCs in the game have cool looking cybernetic eyes, arms, and legs, but your character has no access to any of that. In terms of cybernetics that affect your appearance, all you really have are the little bits of metal on your face. To make matters even worse, once you've created your V, that's it. You can't change your appearance any more. Despite the fact that the ads implied in Night City, you could change your appearance and and body on a whim, you can't. Not even your hairstyle or tattoos, let alone cybernetics.

The AI leaves a lot to be desired, absolute bare minimum AI. They walk (path-finding broken cannot get around cars, cars just wait for you to move the car), reply (you cannot even reply back), and run away if you scare them (or just sit there if you throw a grenade at them). That's it. The police AI are a complete joke. If you get in trouble with the law, police just spawn feet away from you, no matter where you are. In the middle of the desert, on a freeway, on top of a building, police just materialize out of nowhere.

You get one apartment, you can't get new or nicer ones. On top of that, there is no reason to ever return to the apartment you do have. Yes you can stash stuff there, but that's it, other than that it is pointless and you can forget it even exists. I also found it strange that there was no way to customize or upgrade cars. You spend so much time in your vehicles, but you can't do anything with them besides drive from point A to point B.

I might reconsider later on after patches and DLC, but I believe many of the problems cannot be fixed in that way.

Furthermore GTA San Andreas beats this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Nvx8zhq2A&ab_channel=EGOELITEGAMING