OK, I watched quite a bit of the stream, here are my preliminary conclusions:
- the car damage model is the biggest disappointment, you cannot shoot out the tires as the vehicles seem to have a single HP pool, if you keep shooting tires long enough the whole vehicle will explode - this is some next level retardation and absolutely unacceptable in 2020
- close combat actually isn’t that bad (nowhere as good as in Riddick for example though), biggest disappointment here is lack of visible damage to various body parts (ie there are some blood sprays, but know lasting damage to the face etc)
- gunplay sux, the bullet sponge enemies make the guns feel highly unsatisfying and the AI is pretty bad (enemies might get in cover and then ignore you if they don’t have a full line of sight, so you can shoot at them without them reacting)
- swimming is in, platforming is so-so (you can climb to a lot of places, but there seem to be arbitrary limits to it, some locations have a bad design - the guy playing jumped down to a place that was impossible to climb out of and had to reload)
- stealth seems to be OK, you can use hacking to create distractions, AI is not stellar by any means, but this seems to be a way to enjoy the game while safely ignoring its worst aspects
I am a massive stealth fag, so game might be OK for me. The car stuff is sooo bad I find it hard to believe, but hopefully this could be easily patched/moded. Unless the AI and gunplay in general receive serious overhaul, this will suck as a shooter.