Overview
- Early access begins today at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT for Premium Edition owners, with a single global unlock across regions.
- The full release is set for October 29 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC, with day-one availability on Xbox Game Pass.
- Early reviews aggregate around 84–85 on Metacritic, highlighting larger worlds, deeper RPG systems, and more responsive gunplay.
- Critics commonly flag a sluggish opening act, clunky UI and menus, and a contentious Flaws system that some say feels poorly balanced.
- Preloads are live on Steam and Xbox with a roughly 80GB PC download (Obsidian recommends about 110GB SSD space), and the game adds two third-person camera views plus Quality/Balanced/Performance modes on consoles.