That review hits home for me. The game was ok. It can be beautiful at times, but everyone has done it already and did it better ( GTA, Fallout, Deus, Skyrim, Half-life ). For some reason, I decided to try out Stadia version and it was an acceptable experience for me.

But the part about the immersion breaking over ridiculously bad AI, shallow world... Yeah.

I read the transcript and based on what I saw, there is no way there is not a CYA email saying something along the lines of 'it is not ready. if you release it, it will bomb'. I wonder whether board members will be removed.

edit: Well, now I am annoyed. I can't mow down children in car ..sigh