game sounds pretty awful from early reactions I'm reading. pity.
I think "awful" is a bit harsh. There's a lot of good IMO, but a few major design choice missteps.
The Good
-Visuals and sound (minus the stupid distortion of NPCs over the radio and character animations)
-The world and lore is actually fairly well fleshed out, and quite interesting so far
-I actually find myself really enjoying the main story
-The combat is fast, mobile, and fun. It's similar to Mass Effect Andromeda's combat (the best part of that game IMO), but more polished.
-The flight
The Middle Ground
-I actually really like the main characters, but dialogue is a bit...off. Like they are stuck in comedy mode
-The matchmaking and co-op multiplayer is well done, but in freeplay mode some quests actually suffer from having friends around (some quest conditions only count for one player - i.e. the one that gets the kill).
The Bad
-Quest design is quite repetitive
-The menus
The Ugly
-The stupid, stupid restrictions on the good stuff (Unnecessary restrictions on flight in freeplay mode, grind walls that prevent you from moving forward in the main story)
-The loading screens. So many, and very few of them are interesting. There's even a damn loading screen just to change your loadout.