Critics are excited about Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty! The first reviews from journalists speak about the highest quality of the expansion and its exciting plot

In a few days the long-awaited release of the major Phantom Liberty expansion for Cyberpunk 2077 will take place, and tomorrow the free 2.0 update will be released.

The embargo on publishing reviews has just been lifted, and critics have rushed to share their impressions of Phantom Liberty.

Here's What We Know

Critics' opinions are unanimous: Polish developers from CD Projekt Red studio did a great job and significantly improved and added Cyberpunk 2077.

Reviewers say that Phantom Liberty has an extremely exciting plot, which looks like a spy thriller. It perfectly complements the events of the main game, while significantly diversifying it.

In addition, gamers will have an opportunity to visit atmospheric and unusual locations of the new Night City district - Dogtown, where a lot of interesting tasks are waiting for them, both story and side quests.

Critics noted that in Phantom Liberty players got more freedom and variability in completing missions than in the main story of Cyberpunk 2077.

Reviewers also praised Update 2.0, the patch significantly improves the game and gives gamers even more options.

Of the shortcomings critics note ... that there are no flaws in the game! Except that sometimes during the selection of lines in dialogues it is not always clear what exactly the character will say.

The quality of the Phantom Liberty expansion and Update 2.0 is reflected in the scores on aggregators:

90 points - Opencritic;
91 points - Metacritic, PC version;
88 points - Metacritic, PS5 version;
89 points - Metacritic, Xbox Series version;
90 points - overall score on Metacritic.

Source: Metacritic, Opencritic