Extremely ambitious but deeply, deeply flawed. In fairness to it there is some good writing buried in there (the romance subplot I ended up following was nicely written and had some really nice moments tbh), but the moment to moment gameplay is not great, driving is awful, walking around makes the whole place feel empty, hacking feels meaningless, you have to spend an incredible amount of time disposing of junk items, the menus are slow and janky, etc etc.

on the other hand, it is one of the only games I've ever seen to employ montage to full effect in the intro, how they made the engine do that I don't know, because none of it is pre-rendered, it's in-engine, warts and all, but you are cutting between various parts of the city, interior and exterior, with very rapid cuts and it's honestly quite impressive. shame the rest of the game is much less polished than that one scene which stuck with me. the facial animations are really, really impressive, it does some interesting things with first-person interaction and animations, and it will let silence linger in a way I think most games are scared to.