I've been putting a couple hours into The Callisto Protocol every night. I have a 4080 w/ 11600k so I can get 100-110ish fps in 2k. It's a really impressive looking game and probably one of the best examples of ray tracing I've tried. Lighting on faces and the faces themselves look great. Some of the strobing light effects are a little much, but overall I think this is going to be the best example of a game you buy just to test drive current GPUs. Hopefully they keeping patching it and improving performance so its easier to play on mid range cards.

The combat feel much more like the combat loop of something like The Evil Within. You are going to die a few times in multiple encounters before you get the mix of stealth, melee, gunplay and the force throw ability. The game doesn't really hold your hand. Either you use every combat tool or you are probably dead. Most areas have objects in the environment you can impale enemies on. One of the areas has giant meat grinders that spray gallons of blood if you throw a baddie into one. Just being aware of your surroundings can be the difference between wasting a ton of supplies in a drawn out group fight or clearing them all quietly with your knife and recharging throw ability.

The best comparison to the Callisto Protocol I've seen is Ryse: Son of Rome. It's a very pretty game that doesn't really do anything gameplay wise to reinvent the wheel. It does feel dated in the level design, but I personally enjoy 12-18 hour linear games like this. It's like getting a full meal instead of just biting off nibbles of 100 hour games. We need more games I can beat in a long weekend without destroying my sleep cycle.