Cyberpunk 2077
Twinfinite’s Best of Show for E3 2018 – Alex Gibson’s Picks
Features Editor Alex Gibson: “I arrived at CDPR’s Cyberpunk booth expecting the game would leave an impression on me. It certainly did, but not at all in the way I imagined. There’s no question that drawing on the experiences of The Witcher 3 has been pivotal in the developer’s ability to produce such an ambitious project, but the DNA isn’t at all obvious at a glance.
Cyberpunk is an entirely different animal; a bold new direction for the CDPR that seems destined to push the boundaries of video game design. Right now the only comparison I can draw between the two franchises is that just as The Witcher 3 pushed open-world RPGs into the next generation, Cyberpunk promises to reinvent the wheel in exactly the same fashion.”
Dying Light 2
Twinfinite’s Best of Show for E3 2018 – Alex Gibson’s Picks
Features Editor Alex Gibson: “There’s more to look forward to in Dying Light 2 than just the addition of a meaty story, of course. The presentation we saw showcased some of the most compelling first-person gameplay we saw during the entirety of E3. The weighty melee combat is plush with much more nuance now, requiring careful strategy and timing to block and parry attacks. It’s also unbelievably violent — more than one occasion had our protagonist beheading enemy thugs and decapitating zombies in gory red explosions. Traversal, too, looks as fluid as ever, especially in moments where tricky platforming sections required our protagonist to string together combinations of timed jumps, wall runs, and leaps onto dangling ropes.
I left Techland’s Dying Light 2 presentation thoroughly impressed at what I consider an incredibly promising package. There’s still no word on a release date but it looks thoroughly polished.”
