This game feels like a very bad Early Access title, right at the beginning of it's Early Access stage.
As OP said, you can't walk. Instead you just skate through the world in high speed, which really does not allow for any bit of immersion. It's the first really bad gameplay you instantly get and it's annoying as hell.
Another thing that completely breaks the immersion are the NPCs. Most of the time you see the same NPC twice because a copy & paste twin of him / her is within a 10 meter radius. NPC behaviour also is the worst I have ever seen in a "open world RPG" that claimed to be super immersive. Those NPCs behave worse than the ones in GTA. You can not interact with them, you can not interact with any shop in that world - you basically can not do anything. This game feels like the game world is completely empty and dead - in the worst way imaginable.
On top of that we have a bazillion bugs: random crashes, graphics glitches, clipping issues and so on.
I decided that I give up playing this game for now. Maybe it will be playable and somewhat enjoyable in 4 years or so. By the time it will be sold for 10 bucks in a sale. Because in it's current state it's not even worth 10 bucks. Sadly.
As OP said, you can't walk. Instead you just skate through the world in high speed, which really does not allow for any bit of immersion. It's the first really bad gameplay you instantly get and it's annoying as hell.
Another thing that completely breaks the immersion are the NPCs. Most of the time you see the same NPC twice because a copy & paste twin of him / her is within a 10 meter radius. NPC behaviour also is the worst I have ever seen in a "open world RPG" that claimed to be super immersive. Those NPCs behave worse than the ones in GTA. You can not interact with them, you can not interact with any shop in that world - you basically can not do anything. This game feels like the game world is completely empty and dead - in the worst way imaginable.
On top of that we have a bazillion bugs: random crashes, graphics glitches, clipping issues and so on.
I decided that I give up playing this game for now. Maybe it will be playable and somewhat enjoyable in 4 years or so. By the time it will be sold for 10 bucks in a sale. Because in it's current state it's not even worth 10 bucks. Sadly.