What Kind of Game Will it Be?
CD Projekt Red is keeping to what it knows best–creating amazing RPG experiences–and so Cyberpunk 2077 will be the studio’s next big RPG. In fact, Cyberpunk 2077 is shaping up to be even bigger than The Witcher 3.
The studio released this description of Cyperpunk 2077 when they dropped the trailer:
In Cyberpunk 2077, the player will be thrown into a dark future. The metropolis of Night City is a stage set to tell the tale of one individual, raised on the streets, who tries to lift himself up from the gutter and find a way to survive among boostergangs and megacorporations in a city of filth and sin. Drugs, violence, poverty and exclusion haven’t disappeared by 2077, as people stayed they were for centuries—greedy, closed-minded and weak. But not only ghosts of the past trouble mankind, but new issues have appeared. Psychos go on rampages and the streets are filled with junkies addicted to a new form of entertainment—the braindance, a cheap way to experience the emotions and stimuli of someone else, someone living a more exciting life.
As for what type of game Cyberpunk 2077 will be, it is going to be a “big RPG,” according to Marcin Iwiński in an interview with PC Gamer. In the interview, Iwiński also addressed the loot box controversy that has permeated modern gaming recently:
Where we stand is quite simple and you could see it with all of our past releases—most recently The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and GWENT. If you buy a full priced game, you should get a big, polished piece of content, which gives you many, many hours of fun gameplay.
“The definition of ‘many’ may vary on a title-by-title basis, but in our case it was always 50-60+ hours of the main story-line, with up to a couple hundred of hours of side activities—if you really wanted to max out the title.
While Cyberpunk 2077 will feature some version of multiplayer and “online elements,” Iwiński’s comments should allay fears that Cyberpunk 2077 is going to feature loot boxes, microtransactions, or some other form of paid content gating. All evidence points to another robust RPG in CD Projekt Red’s long history of excellent releases within the genre.
As Cyberpunk 2077 is in development, we will continue to hear more and more about the game in the coming months and years. Keep your eye out on cyberpunk.net and the game’s Twitter feed for official announcements, and keep your eyes here on Twinfinite where we’ll continue to cover the game through its release.
