Cyberpunk 2077 REVIEW - 6 Ups & 2 Downs
4. Stealth, Hacking & Takedowns
Combat might not be for you though, hence why the game provides a huge focus on stealth and hacking.
With a simple press of a button, you can slow time to a crawl as you examine your surroundings. Here you can mark gang members or potential threats which stay visible on your mini-map, or hack nearby cameras and turrets to plan out your route. Best of all this hacking mode allows you to distract enemies, or even harm them by overloading their own cyber-ware, even allowing you to blind them as you stop their eyes from working.
That's right, you can blind people by hacking them. It's brutal.
In these moments you feel like you're playing a spiritual successor to Deus Ex, but with an even better range of gadgets, all of which can be swapped out, alongside the huge beautiful world to explore.
I easily had the most fun with the hacking and stealth options because if set up correctly, you reach the local leader's hideout and watch them call for help, only to panic when nobody responds.
Delicious.