This game is riding on the "Blade Runner" coattails that successfully brought about the electronic sci-fi trend in the 1980s, and was published in 1988 by tabletop game designer Mike Pondsmith (Mike Pondsmith) in the tabletop role-playing RPG Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.(Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.) with a basic ruleset. officially licensed version.
But because the "near-future" setting of 2020 was so close to modern times, it was announced in 2012 that the game would be renamed Cyberpunk 2077 after Bondsmith joined CD Projekt RED.
It took six years before new information was revealed again, suggesting that this would be made on a scale that would override The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The game is set in NightCry, a massive metropolis located roughly halfway between what is now Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The U.S. government's national power has been decimated by economic problems, and the Free State of North California, controlled by multinational corporations, has jumped to become a major metropolis with a population of about 5 million.
Cities that were originally designed for corporations are now ruled by corporations that control the executive and judicial branches of government. However, people who are suffering from the economy still choose to live in this city.
The setting is such that anyone in this world can receive the gift of prosthetic transformation.
The protagonist is V, a wandering mercenary who enters the world of Cyberpunk for the sake of money and work. Unlike The Witcher, this game opens up the freedom to create your own character, and the official live demo video begins with a character creation screen. In addition to being able to choose your gender, you can also set your appearance and occupation.
The protagonist is male in the latest promotional video that has been released, but according to the live demo video, you can also choose a female, and both are named V.
Three professions are also introduced: Solo, a lone wolf with combat skills; Netrunner, a cyber player who specializes in hacking; and Techie, a mechanic who specializes in the field of engineering. .
The next introduction is when V receives a contact from Tbug, a female sender, on a mission to rescue a young woman named Sandra Dorsett (サンドラドーセット).
There's also an operation with a fierce-looking but good-natured male comrade, Jack (ジャッキー). Sandra was kidnapped by a gang called the Scavengers (スカベンジャー).
V breaks into a building room to stop the human trade known as "DNA Gathering (DNA ハーヴェスティング)". After a fierce gunfight, he found a naked Sandra who had been thrown into a bathtub full of ice cubes and was on the verge of death.
Seeming the mission to be a "cosmetic" one, V requested rescue from the corporate government via Tbug. He moves through the building with a naked Sandra in his arms and ends the mission on the terrace where the flying ambulance can land.
Then the scene changes and V, a man who can be bought for a small fee, just wakes up in his apartment room. This is when a new quest is added.
The first thing to do is to go and meet with your partner Jack. The quest item shown on the top right of the screen is "Put on the jacket," and the setup is really quite elaborate. But without the punk-style jacket, it really doesn't look like Cyberpunk.
The precision with which the world above ground is depicted as you descend from your apartment is amazing. All kinds of signage and neon signs, including Japanese, can be seen all over the streets. Electronic sci-fi works usually give the impression of streets and dark places at night, but here the sky was clear and crisp, and it looked like a peaceful city. But the dozens or hundreds of characters walking around, some with cocked heads and some with goggle-like prosthetics implanted in their eyes, certainly give off an odd vibe.
Like the giant man who fights cyborgs to earn his daily paycheck, and the police squad that strikes a holoprojected warning to cordon off the scene of an incident. This time around, the video also describes what you can buy at vending machines, and in general is very sophisticated in its depiction of the urban landscape.
Appoint a rendezvous with Jack at the plaza in front of the station building. Then, on his recommendation, he hitched a ride with Dexter Dincho (デクスターデショーン), an underworld pretender with a twisted braid and a gold prosthetic arm on his right hand. Dexter, who smokes a cigar from start to finish, takes on all sorts of illegal jobs from his clients, which he then assigns to the Cyberpunks to carry out.
To make a name for yourself as a cyberpunk, you have to do the illegal work, become known in the underworld and earn money called "eden".
The job V got from Dexter was a test case to see if V was a trustworthy cyberpunk.
Retrieving a battle cyborg from a gang called the "Deadly Vortex (メールストローム)" that they stole from the giant corporation Militetsu (ミリテック) seems like a dangerous job. If you want to complete this commission, you have to do a comprehensive upgrade for their prosthetic body to be able to do, this time you have to visit the underground physician known as Dr. Ripper (リッパードクター) Viktor (ヴィクター), he will help you to install by the Kirosi (キロシ) company produced by the optical scanner in your eyeballs.
After making all kinds of preparations, V hitched a ride in Jack's proudest sports car and moved to the location where he had arranged to meet with Militetsu. Driving through the streets and highways feels just like GTA 5, but with super-tall buildings.
And the traveling V and his entourage will randomly run into gang scavengers who have fought before looking for trouble. There are repeated car chases and gunfights, and V is able to drive and shoot at the same time, even though he's driving.
Fighting off the scavengers, they finally see the female secret agent of Mili-Tet waiting at the bottom of a deserted elevated road.
From the looks of it, it seemed to be a very capable female executive. And with 2 very strong bodyguards with her, it looked as if she was lynching the employee who sold the battle cyborg to the gang.
V, feeling that something was amiss, told Jack to wait at a distance for now, and went forward single to make contact with the female agent.
On approaching the agent, V is immediately pinned down by bodyguards and forced to wear a neural sensor with a lie detector, and is asked if he is coming alone. The dialog option will be "come alone", a seemingly dangerous lie option, but the scene will immediately calm down. He also agrees to the special agent's request for "sufficient funds to redeem the Battle Cyborg without fighting the deadly vortex". After receiving the credit chip card from the secret agent, V, who was released just like that, went to the food processing plant in the base of the deadly vortex.
And almost all of the members of the Fatal Vortex were equipped with goggles, and most of their bodies were cyborgized. As for the leader (ロイス), he even lost his nose and mouth, and his face was sunken in horizontally. The Fatal Vortex's henchmen seemed to be picking a fight with Jack, but V managed to convince Rose to complete the trade of the credit chip card for the spider-type battle cyborg.
But while checking to see if there were any funds on the credit chip card, it was discovered that the chip had been programmed incorrectly.
To this end, V and Jack are forced to engage in a fierce battle with the deadly vortex. Perhaps because she lied when she was questioned earlier, the female agent pretended to believe and handed V the faulty chip, just to see if V could survive the battle with the deadly vortex.
Fighting a member of the Deadly Vortex, whose body is mostly linked to a computer, is on a completely different level than a Drought Rider. The members of the Deadly Vortex are networked, and as soon as one of them confirms V's location, the entire group is instantly on top of its location.
The video introduces a variety of colorful and action-packed combat scenarios, including the ability to use walls to reflect bullets or slide across the floor while shooting, and even the ability to grab enemy rifles.
But the grand finale is the appearance of twin swords called "mantis blades (蟷螂刃(マンティス-ブレイド)", which look like mantis kamatas. It's the same weapon as the one that was first released in 2012, which was extended from the wrist of a woman dressed in white, and seems to have a one-hit kill effect when leaping from a height to cut down an opponent.
If you have hacking or computer engineer skills, there's no need to break through head-on. You can hack into the brain of a member of the Deadly Vortex you've subdued and simply have the network disconnect to obscure your position, as well as introduce more complex instructions for doing so at the same time.
When you come near the exit while fighting, you'll encounter Rose, equipped with a reinforced exoskeleton, and have to engage in another fierce battle here. After defeating Rose with all her might, a female secret agent from Mili-Tei will greet V with a big smile on her face.
Though she lied to her, she now knows all about V's ability to defeat Rose. It was still concerning what would have happened if she had been honest about Jack waiting in the distance when she encountered the female agent in the beginning.
The video concludes with a stunning futuristic cityscape, complex dialogues, and the results of player choices. This 50-minute presentation provides a glimpse into the world view and the depth of the game's systems, making it a very exciting experience for gamers.