CYBERPUNK 2077 DETAILS

CYBERPUNK 2077

 

 

 Cyberpunk 2077 release date

The official Cyberpunk 2077 release date is April 16, 2020. That means there’s less than a year until we’re able to explore the seedy underbelly of Night City.
The reveal comes fresh from Microsoft’s E3 2019 conference, where the all-important launch date appeared at the end of a gorgeous new cinematic trailer. Give it a watch below.

Cyberpunk 2077 story

Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in, you guessed it, the year 2077. In a sprawling metropolis called Night City, you take on the role of a fully-voiced, streetwise young man or woman – you can play as either gender in Cyberpunk 2077 – raised in the gutter and wants to improve their life. The street gangs and megacorps will do all they can to keep people down.

The streets of Cyberpunk 2077 will be filthy, drug infested, poverty-stricken hellholes, with the rich presiding over it all in their ivory towers. V describes it as “the worst place in America.” As well as coping with rampaging madmen, many of the poor are addicted to a new drug called the braindance, which allows them to experience the emotions and stimuli of another person. For just a few hours, you can be rich, successful, and popular with your preferred gender. Because braindances aren’t livestreamed, viewers can experience any moment in another person’s life, living it as if it were real.

Most of these experiences are tailored by megacorporations, with braindances sold to the populace as a form of entertainment. There are also braindances created on the black market, obtained illicitly, that offer much darker dreams, such as feeling the bloodlust of a serial killer. It’s going to be dark as hell, basically.

Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay

Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay first debuted behind closed doors at E3, and CD Projekt Red showcased the same demo to a select few at Gamescom. Soon after the developers have revealed that footage to the general public. You can view it in full below.
In it we see one of Cyberpunk 2077’s side missions play out, and quite how much the game owes to the pen-and-paper RPGs from which it takes inspiration. Our character, V, is given the task from famed Fixer, Dexter DeShawn to take an expensive spider bot drone, by any means necessary.
The bot, it turns out, is part of a haul stolen from Militech by the Maelstrom gang. The mission sees you play off both groups in either a peaceful or violent way, or an approach somewhere in between. We also get a proper introduction to the seedy underbelly – and overbelly, really – of Night City both on foot and on four wheels, and a visual representation of how weapon and character upgrades work.


Given what’s most likely going to be a gargantuan world, you’re going to need a way to get around. Usefully, then, we have hundreds of Cyberpunk 2077 vehicles to better explore the world, and action-packed car chases. Unfortunately, you will not be able control any of the flying vehicles in the world, but you will be able to steal cars to rapidly get around Night City. CD Projekt Red also say that there will be no loading screens to get in the way of your exploration of this handcrafted game world.
In terms of Cyberpunk 2077 combat, we can expect everything from numbers popping out of enemies to a full destruction system to crop up during gun battles. There are weapons with smart-tracking bullets, weapons that can shoot through walls, and abilities that can hack enemies brains to mush, so you will have a variety of ways to take on every fight. A lot of your combat potential will be decided by which implants and augmentations you have equipped, but be wary of installing too many implants as you can develop Cyberpsychoses in Cyberpunk 2077.
Night City is a seedy spot where criminal gangs often rule the roost, so how will you let your hair down after shooting up a gang hideout? Well, we know that there will be Cyberpunk 2077 romance options that allow you to flirt with NPCs and have one night stands with them. That the game has “full-frontal nudity” shouldn’t surprise Witcher 3 fans; Geralt did get around the block a few times. On a totally unrelated note, CDPR is supposedly “planning” a Cyberpunk 2077 photo mode.