Disappointed in the downgrade but played a few hours of the beta and it is really, really solid. I love the clutter in the city too. I'm one of those people who sold Destiny a few days after launch so the presence of a story was very refreshing. I'm hoping it will have interesting characters and factions to make me feel connected to the world. From what I have played in the intro, that bodes well.
I prefer 3rd person games to 1st person so that's a bonus for me. The cover-based gameplay is pretty fun too. The dark zone is very exciting. I encountered a party of 4 and heard them chatting on their mics. I went from cover to cover so that they were standing in a circle 2 metres in front of me. I tossed a grenade at them and someone else who was watching them popped out and started shooting at them too. It was chaos.
Since it is an MMO, there can be all sorts of problems (no updates, imbalanace, no end game, etc.) so I would wait a month at minimum, if I were you.
Since I am poor, I won't buy it until it is ~$20.
